26 EANID^. 



16. Rana plicatella. 

 Rana plicatella, Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. 1873, p. 116, pi. xi. f. 1. 



Vomerine teeth in two short oblique converging series ; lower jaw 

 •with two fang-like projections directed inwards. Head laige ; snout 

 obtuse, with the canthi rostrales rounded ; interorbital space broader 

 than the upper eyelid ; tympanum distinct, as large as the eye. 

 Pirst linger extending beyond second ; toes three-quarters webbed, 

 dilated at the tips into small disks ; a single, inner, elongated, meta- 

 tarsal tubercle. The hind limb being carried forwards along the 

 body, the tibio-tarsal articulation reaches between the eye and the tip 

 of the snout. Skiu of the back with about eight longitudinal, some- 

 what interrupted folds, with numerous small tubercles between them ; 

 upper eyelid tubercular. Above greenish brown, with a dark band 

 from the nostril through the eye, continuing behind it ; limbs trans- 

 versely barred ; hinder side of the thighs densely and rather minutely 

 variegated with dark brown ; a horseshoe-shaped ycUow mark, open 

 below, round the vent ; beneath white, speckled with dark on the 

 tibiae and on the feet. 



Pinang. 



17. Rana tigrina. 



liana tigrina, Gibith. Caf. p. 9. 

 Kana tigrina, Daud. Eain. p. 64, pi. 20, and Kept. viii. p. 125 ; Merr. 



Tent. p. 174; Cuv. R. A. ; Dmn. if Bilr. p. 375 ; Kelaart, Prodr. 



Faun. Zeyl. p. 192; Feters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1S63, p. 77 ; Gunth. 



Hept. Bril. Ind. p. 407 ; Sieindachn. Novara, Amph. p. 17; Giinth. 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 567 ; Anders. Aiiat. Zool. Pes. Yunnan, 



p. 837. 

 — — caucrivora, (Poie) Grarenh. Delic. p. 41 ; Tschudi, Batr. p. 79. 



brama, Li'sson, in Belang. Vol/. Bid. Or., Pept. p. 329, pi. 6. 



vittigera, If'ieqni. Nova Acta Ac. Leop. 1835, p. 225, t. 21. 



f. 1. 



rugulosa, Wiegm. I. c. p. 258, pi. 21. f. 2. 



crassa, Jcrdon, Journ. As. Soc. 1853, p. 581 ; Theohald, Cat. 



Pept. As. Soc. Mus. p. 79; Anders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 199. 

 Hydrostentor pantherinus, Fitzing. Sitz. Ac. Wien, xlii. p. 414. 

 Pyxiceplialus fodiens, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1860, p. 186. 

 Hoplobatrachus cevlanicus, Peters, 3Ion. Berl. Ac. 1863, p. 449; 



Gimth. Pept. Brit. Ind. p. 410. 

 Rana latrans, T>avid, Nouv. Arch. Mus. vii. 1872, Bull. p. 76. 



Vomerine teeth in two oblique series commencing from the inner 

 anterior angle of the choanae ; lower jaw with two not very promi- 

 nent apophyses in front. Head moderate ; snout more or less pointed; 

 interorbital space narrower than the upper eyelid ; tympanum dis- 

 tinct, about two tliirds the size of the ej-e. Pingers rather short, first 

 extending beyond second ; toes moderate, nearly entirely webbed ; 

 a mirch developed membranaceous fringe along the outer side of 

 the fifth toe ; subarticular tubercles of fingers and toes moderate ; 

 inner metatarsal tubercle very variable, small or large, blunt or shovel- 

 shaped; no outer tubercle. The hind limb being carried forwards 



