1 2 EEPTILES. 



back ; fingers and toes blunt at the tips, with large subarticiilar tu- 

 bercles ; toes shortly webbed, the fomth half as long as the tliird 

 and fifth ; metatarsus with two, metacarpus A\dth three tubercles ; 

 vomeiino teeth in two oblique series, convergent behind. Above, 

 between the folds, reddish brown, sides of head and body black, 

 M'hite-spotted behind ; upper lip white-edged. Malabar. 



a. Adult. Ceylon. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 



b. Adult. Ceylon. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 



c. Adidt. Ceylon. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 



t^ e. Adult and half-grown. Ceylon. From Mr. Cuming's Col- 

 lection. 

 /. Half-gro-mi. Ceylon. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 

 f/. Half-grown. Ceylon. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 

 )(. Adult. India. Presented by Sir J. Eichardson. 



10. Rana esculenta. 



Gesnei; Hist. Anim. xi. p. 41 ; Rondekt, Aquat. Hist. Lib. tie Palnsfr. 



p. 217; Schwenckfehi, Theriotroj)h. Sites, p. 157; Atdrov. Quad/: 



Dir/it. Ovip. p. 591 ; Ray, Si/jtops. Meth. p. 247 ; Klein, Quad): 



Dispos. p. 117; Rosel, Hist. Ran. p. 53. t. 13-16. 

 Eaua \-iridis, Linn. Faun. Siiec. p. 94 ; Shaw, Zool. iii. p. 103. pi. 31 ; 



Dum. Sf Bihi: p. 343. 

 escidenta, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 357 ; Laur. Syn. p. 31 ; Miiller, 



Zool. Dan. Prodr. p. 35 ; Dauhent. Diet. Anim. p. 650 ; Bonnat. 



Erpetol. p. 3 ; Lacq). Quadr. Orip. i. p. 505 ; 3L'yer, Synops. Rept. 



p. 12 ; Sturm, DeutscJd. Fauna, iii. Heft 1 ; Dunndurf, Zool. Beitr. 



iii. p. 55; Lutr. Salam. p. 38, and Rept. ii. p. 148; Daiid. Rain. 



p. 46. pi. 15. f. 1, and Rejjt. vlii. p. 90 ; Descript. de I'Eg. Suppl. 



pi. 2. f. 11, 12 ; Cm: R^gne Animal ; Merr. Tent. p. 170 ; Griffith, 



Anim. Kinqd. ix. p. 392 ; Eichiv. Zool. Spec. iii. p. 166 ; Wayl. Syst. 



p. 203 ; Bonap. Faun. Ltal. ; Holandre, Faune de la Moselle, p. 220 ; 



Schinz, Faun. He/ret. p. 148 ; Schley. Faun. Japan, vii. t. 3. f. 1 ; 



Tschudi, Batr. p. 79. 



ridibunda, Pallas, Lter. 



cachinnans, (Pall.) Fichu: Faun. Caspio-Caxicas. p. 120. pi. 30. 



palmipes, Spix, Test. t. 6. f. 1 . 



maritima, Risso, Hist. Nat. Europ. Mer. iii. p. 92 ; Bonap. I. c. 



alpina, Risso, I. c. p. 93 ; Bonap. I. c. 



fulcarata, 3Iichahelles, Isis, ]s:i0, p. 160; Tschudi, p. 80. 



tigrina, Eickw. Faun. Caspio- Caucus, p. 125. 



liispanica, Bonap. I. c. 



Body wath a glandular fold on each side ; toes not quite webbed 

 to the end ; metatarsus wdth two tubercles ; vomerine teeth in two 

 small groups between the inner nostrils. Male with an external 

 vocal sac on each side, behind the angle of mouth ; openings of the 

 vocal sacs moderate. 



A. African specimens. 



a, h. Adult. Tunis. From Mr. Fraser's Collection. 



c. Young. North Africa. Froin Mr. Fraser's Collection. 



