40 EANID^. 



(f>. 2 . Damascus. Dr. Anderson [P.]. 



X- Yg-. Guezama. W.C.Trevelyan,Esq.[P.]. 



J/'. 2 ■ Euphrates Expedition. 



CO. Hgr. Bussorali. W. T. Blauford, Esq. [C.l. 



aa. $. SMraz. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.J. 



Var, japonica. 



Eana esculenta, Schleg. Faun. Japon., Rept. p. 109, pi. 3. f. 1 ; Gi'mfh. 



Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 408; Martens, Preuss. Exped. O.-As. i. p. 111. 

 marmorata, Hallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. 18G0, p. 500 ; Camerano, 



Atti Ac. Tor. xiv. p. 871. 



nigromaculata, Hallo^v. I. c. 



? Hoplobatraclius reiuliardti, Peter.'?, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1807, p. 711. 

 Rana esculenta marmorata, Lataste, Le Naturaliste, 1880, p. 210, and 



Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. 1880, p. 61. 



Inner metatarsal tubercle very large, shovel-shaped ; interrupted 

 narrow glandular folds along the back. 

 Japan, China. 



Tomopterna porosa, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1868, p. 111. 



Yomerine teeth in t-wo groups between the choante. Head mode- 

 rate ; tympanum nearly as large as the eye. Fii'st finger longer 

 than second; toes nearly completely webbed; inner metatarsal 

 tubercle shova^-like. The hind limb being carried forwards along 

 the body, the metatarsal tubercle reaches beyond the tip of the 

 snout. A glandular dermal fold from above the tympanum to above 

 groin on the side ; the greatest jiart of the upper ej'elid glandular 

 and covered with pores. Brown above, with dark grey shades ; 

 Bometimes an imperfect pale vertebral line ; sides handsomely 

 marbled with white below and grey above. 



Kanagawa, Japan. • 



41. Rana utricularia. 



Rana utricidaria, Harlan, Sillim. Journ. x. p. 59, and Journ. Ac. 



Philad. V. p. 3.17. 



halecina, Hallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1856, p. 141. 



beilaudieri, Baird, U. S. Mex. Bound. Surv., Sept. p. 27, pi. 36. 



f. 7-10, 



This Erog is certainly distinct from R. halecina, though very 

 closely allied to it, as, according to the authors quoted above, the 



