26 RANID”. 
16. Rana plicatella. 
Rana plicatella, Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. 1873, p. 116, pl. xi. f. 1. 
Vomerine teeth in two short oblique converging series ; lower jaw 
with two fang-like projections directed inwards. Head large ; snout 
obtuse, with the canthi rostrales rounded ; interorbital space broader 
than the upper eyelid; tympanum distinct, as large as the eye. 
First finger extending beyond second; toes three-quarters webbed, 
dilated at the tips into small disks; a single, inner, elongated, meta- 
tarsal tubercle. The hind limb being carried forwards along the 
body, the tibio-tarsal articulation reaches between the eye and the tip 
of the snout. Skin of the back with about eight longitudinal, some- 
what interrupted folds, with numerous small tubercles between them ; 
upper eyelid tubercular. Above greenish brown, with a dark band 
from the nostril through the eye, Contmaie Poiana it ; limbs trans- 
versely barred ; hinder side of the thighs densely arid rather minutely 
variegated with dark brown ; a hor seshoe- shaped yellow mark, open 
below, round the vent ; beneath white, speckled with dark on the 
tibize and on the feet. 
Pinang. 
17. Rana tigrina. 
Rana tigrina, Giinth. Cat. p. 9. 
Rana tigrina, Daud. Rain. p. 64, pl. 20, and Rept. viii. p. 125; Merr. 
Tent. p. 174; Cuv. i: ya Dum; &§ Libr. p. 875; Kelaart, Prod. 
Faun. Zeyl. p. 192 Petérs, Mon. Berl, Ac. 1863, p. 77; Giinth. 
Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 407 ; ; Steindachn. Novara, Amph. p. 17; Ginth. 
Proc. Zool. Soe. 1875, p. 567; Anders, Anat. Zool. Res, Yunnan, 
837. 
- cancrivora, (Bore) Gravenh. Delice. p. 41; Tschudi, Baty. p. 79. 
brama, Lesson, in Bélang. Voy. Ind. Or., Rept. p. 829, pl. 6 
: vittigera, Wregm. Nova Acta Ac, Leop, 1835, p. 225, t. 21. 
rugulosa, Wiegm. U. ec. p. 258, pl. 21. f. 2. 
crassa, Jerdon, Journ. As, Soc, 1855, p. 581; Theobald, Cat. 
Rept. As. Soc. Mus. p. 79; Anders. Proc. Zool. Soe, 1871, p. 199. 
Hydrostentor pantherius, 2%fzing. Sitz. Ac. Ween, xiii. p. 414. 
Pyxicephalus fodiens, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ae. 1860, p- 186. 
Hoplobatrachus ceylanicus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1863, p. 449; 
Giinth, Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 410. 
Rana latrans, David, Nouv. Arch. Mus, vii. 1872, Bull, p. 76. 
Vomerine teeth in two oblique series commencing from the inner 
anterior angle of the choane ; lower jaw with two not very promi- 
nent apophyses in front. Head moderate ; snout more or less pointed; 
interorbital space narrower than the upper eyelid; tympanum dis- 
tinct, about two thirds the size of the eye. Fingers rather short, first 
extending beyond second; toes moderate, nearly entirely webbed ; 
a much developed membranaceous fringe along the outer side of 
the fifth toe; subarticular tubercles of fingers and toes moderate ; 
inner metatarsal tubercle very variable, small or large, blunt or shoyel- 
shaped; no outer tubercle. The hind limb being carried forwards 
