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Upper surface with short k)ugitudiiial glanJuhxr fohls or rounded 

 tuhercles, but sometimes smooth, except upon the tibiie. Vomerine 

 teetli in two small oblique series behind the choanaj ; lower jaw with 

 two more or less developed tooth-like prominences in front ; tympanuiu 

 hidden ; eyes very prominent ; fingers tapering ; toes broadly webbed, 

 tlie tips dilated into small discs ; a narrow cutaneous fringe along the 

 inner metatarsal edge, including a single long narrow tubercle. Colour 

 and markings (of spirit specimens) : brown above with darker marbling ; 

 a reddisli-brown transverse band with darker edges between the eyes ; 

 lower parts whitish, throat and inner side of the hind limbs marbled 

 with brown. 



Recorded by Colonel Beddome' from Walaghdt (Nilgiris). Two 

 specimens in the Madras Museum from the Nilgiris, which agree very 

 closely with the young specimen from Ningpo, figured by Giinther ; ^ 

 length of body Ig inches, hind leg 2f inches. 



Concerning this species, Giinther says (/.c.) : '* This frog is not 

 uncommon in Ceylon, and is found in Java, Celebes, and at Ningpo in 

 China. The usual size of the specimens in European collections is not 

 much more than 2 inclies, but I have examined a specimen, the body of 

 which is 4 1 inches long, the hind limb measuring 6 inches." 



4. Bana tigkina. 



Hana tigrina, Giiifth. Cat. 1858, p. 9 ; Brnid. Rain. p. 64, pi. XX, 

 and Repf. VIII, p. 125 ; Merr. Tent. p. 174 ; Ciw. R. A. ; Dam. Sf Bib. 

 p. 375; Kelaart. Prodr. Faun. Zeyl. 1852, p. 192 ; Peters, Mon. Berl, 

 Ac. 1863, p. 77 ; Giudk. Rept. Brit. Ind. 1^^64, p. 407, and Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1875,' p. 567; Sfeindachn, Novara. Axiph. p. 17 ; Anderson, Anat. 

 Zool. Res. Yunnan. 1878. p. 837 ; B/gr. Cat. 1882, p. 26. 



Rana cancrivora, (Bote) Gravenh. Belie, p. 4l ; Tschiidi, Batr. 

 p. 79. 



Eana brama, Lesson in BeJang, Voy. bid. Or. J'epf. p. 329, pi. 6. 



Rana vittigera, Wiegm. Nora. Acta. Ae. Loop. 1835, p. 225, t. 2L 

 f. I. 



Rana rugulosa, Wiegm. I.e. p. 258, t. 21. f. 2. 



Rana crassa, Jerdon, Journ. As. Soc. Benq. 1853, p. 531 ; TJieofmld, 

 Cat. Rept. As. Soc. Mus. p. 79 ; Anderson. Froc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p, 199, 



Rana latrans, Bavid, Nouv. ArcJi. Mits. VII, 1871, Bull. p. 76. 



Rana mugiens. Baud. Rain. pi. xxiii ; Latr. Rept. Vol II, p. 153. 



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



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



Hoplobatrachus ceylanicus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac., 1863, p. 449 ; 

 Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. 1864. p. 410. 



Skin of the back with longitudinal folds ; tympanum distinct, about 

 two-thirds the size of the eye ; lower jaw with two not very prominent 

 apophyses in front ; fourth toe one-third or one-half longer than the 

 fifth ; toes nearly entirely webbed, the web extending not quite to tlie 

 tip of the fourth toe ; a well-developed membranaceous fringe along the 

 outer side of the fifth toe ; a single small or large, blunt or shovel- 

 shaped inner metatarsal tubercle. Colour dark-brown above with large 



1 Manual of lli- X la:iiri Dislii t, 1880, p. 175. 



2 Rept., Bat. lad., pi XXVIB. 



