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4. Rana tigrina. 



Rana tigrina, Daud., Hist. Rain. Gren. Crap. p. 64, pl.xx (1803), and Hist. 



Rept.VlU, p. 125 (1803), Kelaart, Prodr. Faun. Zeyl. p 192 (1852) ; 



Giinth., Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 567 ; Anders., Anat. Zool. Res. 



FMwnaw, p. 837 (1879) ; \iou\eug., Faun. Ind., Rept. ^. i\\(), fig. (1890) ; 



S. Flower, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1896, p. 901, and 1899, p. 891, pi. lix, fig. 2 ; 



Stejneg., Herp. Japan, p. 139, fig. (1907); Annand., Mem. As. Soc. 



Beng. VI, 1917, p. 122, figs., pi. v, figs. 1-2, and pi. vi, fig. i ; Bou- 



leng , Rec. hid. Mus. XV, 1918, pp. 51, 65 ; Annand., Rec. Ind. Mus. 



XV, 1918, p. 60, fig. 

 1 Rana picta, Gr?venh., Delic. Mus. Zool. Vratisl. I, p. 39 (1829). 

 Raiia brania, Lesson, in Belang., Voy. Ind. Or., Rept. p. 329, pi. vi (183/]). 

 Rana tigrina, part., Dum. et Bibr., Erp. Gen. VIII, p. 375 (1841) ; Giinth., 



Cat. Batr. Sal. p. 9 (1858); Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1863, p. 77; 



Giinth., Rept. Brit. Ind., p. 407 (1S64); Steind., Novara, Amph. p. 17 



(1867); Bouleng., Cat. Batr. Ecaitd. p. 26 (1882), and Faun. Mai. 



Pen., Rept. p. 234, fig. (1912). 

 Rana malabarica {non D. et B.), Kelaart, op. cit., p. 191. 

 Rana crassa, Jerdon, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XXII, 1853, P-S.^i '< Anders., 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1 87 1, p. 199; Annand., Rec. Ind. Mus. XV, 1918, p. 



61, fig. 

 Rana occipitalis, Giinth., Cat. Batr. Sal. p. 130, pi. xi (1858) ; Bocage, 



Jorn. Sc. Lisb. I, 1866, p. 73 ; Boettg., AbJi. Senck. Ges. XII, 1881, p. 



416; Bouleng., Cat. Batr. Ecaud. p. 27(1882) ; Bocage, Herp. Angola, 



p. 155 (1895) ; Werner, Sitzb. Ak. Wien, CXVI, i, 1908, p. 1887. 

 Pyxicephalus fodiens, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. i860, p. 186. 

 Rana hydraletis (Boie), Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1863, p. 78. 

 Hoplobatraclius ceylanicus, Peters, Moti. Berl. Ac. 1863, p. 449; Giinth., 



Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 410 (1864). 

 Rana bragantina, Bocage, Rev. Mag. Zool. 1864, p. 253. 

 Rana tigrina, var. pantherina {Fitz.), Steind., Novara, Amph. pi. i, figs. 14 



— 17 (1867). 

 Rana [Hoplobatrachtis) ceylanica, Giinth., Ann and Mag. N.H. (4) IX, 



1872, p. 87. 

 Rana tigrina, var. ceylanica, Boettg., Ber. Offenb. Ver. Nat. 1892, p. 94. 

 Rana bitrkilli, Annand., Rec. Ind. Mus. V, 1910, p. 79. 

 Rana rugulosa {non Wiegni.), Annand., Mem. As. Soc. Beng. VI, 1917, 



p. 126, pi. V, fitj-. 3; Malcolm Smith, Journ. N.H. Soc. Siam, II, 1917, 



p. 263, pi. — , fig. 2; Annand., Rec. Ind. Mus XV, 1918, p. 60. 

 Rana tigrina, vars. crassa, occipitalis, burkilli, Bouleng., Rec. Ind. 



Mus. XV, 1918, p. 57. 



Forma typica. 



Vomerine teeth in strong or very strong, oblique, straight or 

 slightly curved series narrowly separated from each other, originat- 

 ing close to the anterior border of the choanae and extending 

 beyond the level of their posterior borders. A rather feeble bony 

 process at the anterior extremity of the lower jaw in adult speci- 

 mens. 



Head as long as broad or broader than long, rather strongly 

 depressed ; snout rounded or pointed, projecting more or less 

 beyond the mouth, longer than the eye ; canthus rostralis obtuse; 

 loreal region very oblique, more or less concave ; nostril equi- 

 distant from the eye and the tip of the snout or nearer the latter ; 

 interorbital space much narrower than the upper eyelid ; tym- 

 panum very distinct, f to once the diameter of the eye, 1^ to 2^ 

 times its distance from the latter. 



