12 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vol. XX, 



Measurements in millimetres. 



I — 2. Madras. 3. Malabar. 4 — 7. Ceylon. 8, S. Ceylon. 



Habitat. — Southern India and Ceylon. 



[In life the adult of this species has the back of a bright leaf- 

 green colour, with the mid-dorsal streak, if present, primrose- 

 yellow. In half-grown individual the colours are paler and the 

 conspicuous spots of the 3^oung frequently persist. 



The locality " Puri " given by Mr. Narayan Rao and myself 

 {Rec. Ind. Mus. XV, p. 31) is probably incorrect, being based on 

 somewhat faded specimens of tadpoles from running water (see my 

 note on R. cyanophlyctis). On a recent tour through the eastern 

 districts of the Madras Presidency I failed to find R. hexadactyla 

 north of Nellore. 



This frog usually lives amongst dense aquatic vegetation, in 

 which its green colour conceals it admirably. In Madras it is 

 eaten by Frenchmen, being captured by means of a hook baited 

 with a red rag and pulled on a line through the weeds it frequents. 

 A^. A.]. 



2, Rana cyanophlyctis. 



J?a)ia cyanophlyctis, Schneid., Hist. Amph. I, p. 137 (1799); Peters, 



Mo7i. Berl. Ac. 1863, p. 78; Gi'inth., Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 406 (1864); 



Steind., Novara, Amph. p. 20 (1867); Stoliczka, Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 



1872, p. 102; Blanf., Zool. E. Persia, p. .433 (1876); Bouleng., Cat. 



Batr. Ecaud. p. 17 (1828), and Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 442 (1890); 



Murray, Zool. Sink., p. 398 (1884) ; Anders., Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, 



p. 660, pi. xxxvii. fig. 2 ; Ferguson, Journ. Bomb. N.H. Soc. XV, 



1904, p. 500; Bouleng., Jaiin. Mai. Pen., Rept. p. 228 (1912) ; 



Annand. and Rao, Rec. Ind. Mus. XV, 1918, p. 30, fig. 

 Rana bengalensis. Gray, Ind. Zool. I, pi. Ixxxii, fig. 2 (1834) ; Kelaart, 



Prodr. Faun. Zeyl. I, p. 192 (1852). 

 Rana leschenaultii, Dum. et Bibr., Erp Gen. VIII, p. 342(1841) ; Cantor, 



Cat. Mai. Rept. p. 138 (1847); Gunth., Cat. Bat. Sal. p. 11 (1858). 

 Dicroglossus adolji, Giinth., Proc. Zool. Soc. 1S60, p. 158, pi. xxviii, 



fig. B, and Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 402 (1864). 

 Rana ehrenbergii, Peters, Man. Berl. Ac. 1863, p. 70 ; Bouleng., Cat. Batr. 



Ecaud., p. 18. 



