1912.] N. Annandai^e : Batrachia. 9 



the characteristic tadpole at an altitude of 8,500 ft. in the Hundur 

 Yarm Valley in northern Kashmir, while Capt. R. B. Seymour 

 Sewell has recently taken precisely similar larvae a few feet above 

 sea-level and a few yards from the shore, in a small stream running 

 into Heinze Basin on the coast of Tavoy. I have also examined 

 larvae from other parts of Tenasserim and Assam and from Ijttle 

 Andaman I., and adults from Tenasserim and Assam, Bengal and 

 Orissa. I have not, however, seen specimens from any place in the 

 plains west of Calcutta. In I^ower Burma and Orissa the frog is 

 usually found amongst dense vegetation at the edge of ponds and 

 lakes. On the shores of the Sar Lake near Puri it is abundant on the 

 leaves of plants that grow out of the water and also on ledges in 

 the sides of old wells. 



The back of the young frog is brown, often mottled with 

 black, but in the adult it becomes of a bright leaf-green. I have 

 redescribed the tadpole below (p. 22). R. alticola is of much more 

 slender habit and usually of smaller size than R. erythraea, which 

 resembles it in habits, but apparently is not found west of the 

 Bay of Bengal. 



Mr. Kemp took a small specimen of R. alticola on the Assam - 

 Bhutan frontier in the north-east of the Mangaldai division of the 

 Darrang district in January, 1911. 



6, Rana granulosa (Anderson). 



Hylorana granulosa, Anderson, J.A.S.B. (2) xl p 23 

 (1871). > > . ' 



} Rana iytleri, Boulenger, Fauna, p. 458 {partim). 

 Rana granulosa, id., Ann. Mns. Genova (2nd ser.), xiii 

 P- 333. Pl. viii, fig. 2 (1893). 



This frog is known from the Karin Hills and Pegu in Burma, 

 from Yunnan and from north-eastern Assam (Sibsagar). It is 

 apparently arboreal in habits. 



A specimen was taken on a tree-trunk near Dibrugarh. 



7, Rana afghana (Giinth.). 



Polypedates afghana, Giinther, Rept. Brit. Ind., p. 432. 

 Rana laiopalmata, Boulenger, Fauna, p. 462. 

 Rana afghana, id., Ann. Mus. Genova (2nd ser.), v p. 420 

 (1888). -- ' t- ^ 



It is very unfortunate that this frog should have to bear the 

 inappropriate specific name ''afghana," for there can be little 

 doubt that its range does not extend west of Nepal. It is not un- 

 common in the Darjiling Himalayas at moderate altitudes and has 

 also been found in Assam and Burma. 



An adult was taken by Mr. Kemp at Yembung (alt. 1,100 ft.), 

 and also two tadpoles, which f>re noticed below (p. 24). 



