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20. Rana agilis. 

 (Plate XXIV.) 



Rana temporaria, part., Daudin, Hist. Rain. Gren. Crap., p. 46, 

 pi. xv, fig. 2 (1803), and Hist. Rept., viii, p. 94 (1803); 

 Dumeril & Bibron, Erp. Gen., viii, p. 358(1841); Giinther, 

 Cat. Batr. Sal., p. 16 (1858); Schreiber, Herp. Eur., p. 125 

 (1875) ; De Betta, Atti 1st. Yenet. (6). iv, 1885, p. 45. 



Rana lemporaria (non Linnaeus), Millet, Faune Maine et Loire, 

 ii, p. 664 (1828). 



Rana dalmatina, Fitzinger, in Bonaparte, Mem. Ace. Torin. (2), 

 ii, 1839, p. 249 * 



Rana agilis, Thomas, Ann. Sc. Nat. (4), iv, 1855, p. 365, pi. vii, 

 figs. 1—4; Fatio, Rev. & Mag. Zool. (2), xiv, 1862, p. 81, 

 pis. vi & vii; Steenstrup, Vid. Meddel., 1869, p. 16; Fatio, 

 Vert. Suisse, iii, p. 333 (1872); De l'lsle, Ann. Sc. Nat. (5), 

 xvii, 1873, art. 3, p. 3; De Betta, Faun. Ital.. Rett. Anf., 

 p. 65 (1874) ; Lataste, Herp. Gir., p. 233 (1876) ; Leydig, An. 

 Batr., p. 143 (1877) ; Lessona, Atti Ace. Lincei, Mem. CI. Sc. 

 fis., i, 1877, p. 1074, pi. iii ; Heron-Royer, Bull. Soc. Zool. 

 France, 1878, p. 128, pi. iii, fig. 1; Boulenger, Bull. Soc. 

 Zool. France, 1879, p. 183, 1880, p. 209, and Cat. Batr. Ecaud., 

 p. 46 (1882); Camerano, Mem. Ace. Torin. (2), xxxv, 1883, 

 p. 274, pi. i, figs. 5-8; Heron-Royer, Ball. Soc. Et. Sc. 

 Angers (2), xiv, 1885, p. 124, and Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 

 1886, p. 681; Borelli, Boll. Mus. Torin., i, 1886, No. 14; 

 Boettger, in Radde, Faun. Flor. Casp.-Geb., p. 77 (1886), and 

 Sitzb. Ak. Berl., 1888, p. 148; Leydig, Verb. Pbys. Ges. 

 Wurzb. (2), xxii, No. 6, 1888, and Zool. Anz., 1889, p. 316; 

 Heron-Royer & Van Bambeke, Arch. Biol., ix, 1889, p. 255; 

 Bedriaga, Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou, 1889, p. 323 ; Wolterstorff, 

 Zool. Anz., 1890, p. 260 ; Mehely, Zool. Anz., 1890, p. 447 ; 

 Melsheimer, Verh. Ver. Rheinl. (5), vii, 1890, p. 82; Bou- 

 lenger, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1891, p. 609, pi. xiv, fig. 7; Mehely, 

 Beitr. Mon. Kronstadt, Herp., p. 61 (1892), and Math. Term. 

 Kozl. Budapest, xxv, 1892, p. 43, pis. iii & v ; Leydig, Zool. 

 Gart., xxxiii, 1892, p. 321 ; Boettger, Ber. Senck. Ges., 1892, 

 p. lxxxii; Stoll, Viertehjakrschr. Nat. Ges. Zurich, xxxvii, 



* The strict application of the law of priority would require the 

 adoption of this name in preference to that proposed by Thomas sixteen 

 years later, as the former was accompanied by a definition (" Gigantea, 

 pedibus posticis longissimus "), however inadequate, and specimens so 

 labelled by Fitzinger are preserved in the Vienna Museum. However, 

 this is one of those cases in which, it appears to me, conservatism is 

 desirable, as the name agilis was the first to appear in connection with 

 a proper description, and has been so generally in use within the last 

 half-century. Similar considerations have guided me in the naming of 

 the two species of the genus Bombinator, and I hope, in the interest of 

 the stability of nomenclature, they will commend themselves to future 

 workers. 



