44 RANID®. 
dark-spotted ; a brown temporal spot; a white line from beneath 
the eye to the extremity of that spot; beneath spotted with grey. 
Male apparently without vocal sacs. 
W. N. America. 
a-d. 3,9,& yg. Sumas Prairies. Lord J. Russell [P.}. 
50. Rana temporaria. 
Rana temporaria, var. platyrhinus, Giinth. Cat. p. 16. 
Rosel, Hist. Ran. p. 1, pls. 1-8. 
Rana temporaria, part., L. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, p. 357. 
muta, Laur. Syn. ’ Rept. p. 80. 
temporaria, Schneid. Hist. Amph. i. p. 118; Latr. Sal. p. 37, 
and Rept. ii. p. 150; Shaw, Zool. iii. p. 97; Daud. Rain. p. 46, 
pl. 15, and Rept. viii. p: 94’; Merrem, Tent. p. 175; Penn: Brit. 
Zool. iii. p. 9; Jenyns, Br it. Vert. p. 800; Bonap. ” Faun, Ital. ; 
Schinz, Faun. Helv. p: 143; Tschudi, Batr. p.79; Bell, Brit. Rept. 
p- 84; Dum. & Libr. p. 359 ; Koch, "Ber. Senck. Ges. 1872, p. 155; . 
Fatio, Vert. Suisse, iii. p. 3821; De Betta, Faun. Ital., Rett. Anf. 
p. 64; Lessona, Atti Ac. Lincet, Mem. Cl. Se.-fis. 1. p. 1068, pl. 11. 
flaviventris, ’ Millet, Faun. Maine et Loir é, ll. p. 663, 
cruenta, Pallas , Zoog gr’. Toss.-As. p. 12. 
alpina, Lezsso, Hist. Nat. Eur. mér. iii. p. 93; Bonap. l.c. 
scotica, Bell, l.c. p. 102. 
—— platy nrhinus, Steenstr, Amtl. Ber, 24. Vers, Kiel, p. 151. 
fusca, De U’ Isle, Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, xvii. 1875; Leydig, An. 
Batr. p. 116; Bouleng. Bull. Soc, Zool. France, 1879, p. 164; Héron 
Royer, Bull. Ac. Belg. (8) i. no. 2, p. 159. 
temporaria, var. platyrrhina, Schreib. Herp. Eur. p. 126. 
—— dybowskii, Giinth. Ann. § Mag. N. H. 1876, xvii. p. 387. 
Vomerine teeth in two small oblique groups extending beyond the 
hinder edge of the choane. Head moderate; snout short, blunt; 
interorbital space as broad as the upper eyelid; tympanum distinct, 
two thirds the diameter of the eye. Fingers moderate, first extend- 
ing beyond second; toes at least two-thirds webbed; subarticular 
tubercles of fingers and toes moderate; inner metatarsal tubercle 
small, obtuse; outer tubercle none or scarcely distinct. The hind 
limb being carried forwards along the body, the tibio-tarsal articu- 
lation reaches hardly the tip of the snout. A moderately prominent 
glandular lateral fold. Upper parts greyish or brown, more or less 
spotted with dark brown or black; a more or less intense dark tem- 
poral spot; a light line from below the eye to the extremity of the 
temporal spot; sides of body largely spotted; limbs transversely 
barred; beneath more or less spotted. Male with two internal 
vocal sacs. 
Europe; Northern and Temperate Asia. 
a. Many spec.: ¢, 2, & yg. Scotland. 
b, ec. Skeletons. England. 
de, frhe SQ. England. 
tk. 3 2 (stuffed). Cambridgeshire. 
l-m. 2 & her. Surrey. Museum Leach. 
