284 KANiD.^;. 



edged Avitli black. Above light reddish brown witli a dark brown 

 line through the eye ; crests and posterior portion ot" muscular 

 part of tail colourless, with irregular dark brown vertical bars. 



Burma, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. Recorded from 

 Penang, Perak, Johore, Malacca, Singapore, from sea-level to 

 4UO0 feet on the hills. 



Active frogs and good swimmers, called " Koldoo-ayer " by the 

 Malays of Penang, and " Koldok-merah " at Singapore. Young 

 specimens are usually known as Katah umpan or " bait-frogs " by 

 the Peninsular Malays. According to Flower, their food consists 

 of snails, crabs, insects and scorpions ; they probably also feed 

 on other frogs, and an instance is known of one swallowing a 

 snake. 



248. Rana tigrina. 



Daud. Hist. Rain. Greii. Crap. p. 04, pi. xx (1802) ; Cantor, Journ. 

 Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xvi, p. 1060 (1847) ; Gliuth. Kept. Brit. 

 Ind. p. 407 (1864) ;Bouleug. Cat. Batr. Ecaud. p. 26 (1882) ; 

 id. Faun. Brit. Ind., Eept. p. 449, tig. 132 (]890) ; S. Flower, 

 r.Z. S. 1896, p. 901, and 1899, p. 891, pi. hx, tig. 2 ; A. L. 

 Butler, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Bombay, xv, p. 197 (1903). 



Vomerine teeth in two long oblique series commencing from 

 the inner front edges of the choanae ; lower jaw with two more or 

 less distinct prominences in front in the adult. Head moderate; 

 snout rounded or obtnsely pointed, at least as long as the orbit ; 

 canthus rostralis obtuse ; interorbital space narrower than the 

 upper eyelid; tympanum very distinct, | to | the diameter of the 

 eye. Pingers rather short, blunt, first extending beyond second ; 

 toes moderate, entire!}' or nearly entirely webbed ; a membranous 

 fringe along the outer side ot" the fifth toe ; subarticular 

 tubercles moderate ; inner metatarsal tubercle OA'al or elliptical, 

 blunt, 2 to f the length of the inner toe * ; no outer metatarsal 

 tubercle. The tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the eye. Skin of 

 back with small warts and more or less distinct longitudinal 

 folds ; a more or less distinct fold across the head behind the 

 eyes ; a glandular fold above the tympanum. Brown, olive, or 

 green above, usually with darker spots, with or without a 

 yellowish vertebral line ; back of thighs yelloA^-, marbled with 

 black ; limbs with dark cross-bars. Iris dark bro\\"n, with a 

 golden ring round the pupil. Male with two gular vocal sacs, 

 forming folds on the sides of the throat, these regions generally 

 blackish. 



From snout to vent 160 millira. 



The tadpole dilfers from that of II. macrodon in having 5 series 

 of teeth in the upper lip, the first uninterrupted, and also 5 in 

 the lower lip, the first short and uninterrupted, the second long 

 and uninterrupted, the remainder broadly interrupted and very 



* In the Malay specimens. 



