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Djokjakarta!; Mula!; Pasuruan ! ; Nongkodjadjar, 1200 m. !; 

 Situbondo!); Bali!; Lonibok!; Suinbawa, 140 m. — From 

 India, the Himalayas (up to 2100 m.) and Ceylon, S.-China 

 and Japan to the Malay Peninsula and the Philippines. 



2. Rana cancrivora Gravenh. 



Ra/ia cajicrivora Gravenhoist, Deliciae Mus. Zool. Vratislav., Fasc. I, Lipsiae, 



1829, p. 41. 

 Rana tigrina part. Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., 1882, p. 26. 

 Rana Schliiteri Werner, Zool. Anz., XVI, 1894, p. 84. 

 Ra?ia tigriita and R. t. var. angustopalinata v. Kampen, Weber's Zool. Ergebn., 



Leiden, IV, 1907, p. 388, pi. XVI, figs. 31^, c (feet) (with tadpole). 

 Rana tigrina v. Kampen, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. -Indie, LXIX, 1909, p. 33 (tadpole). 

 Rana tigrina part. Boulenger, Vert. Fauna Malay Penins., Rept. and Batr., London, 



1912, p. 234 (not the figure, nor the tadpole). 

 Rana cancrivora Annandale, Mem. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, VI, 1917, p. 128, pi. V, 



figs. 4, 4a, \b (head), textfig. \c (foot). 

 Rana tigrina var. cancrivora Boulenger, Rec. Ind. Mus., XV, pt. II, 191 8, 



P- 55, 58. 

 Rana cancrivora Annandale, Rec. Ind. Mus., XV, pt. II, 1918, p. 63, figs. 



3, 3a (tadpole). 

 Rana cancrivora Boulenger, Rec. Ind. Mus.. XX, 1920, p. 23. 



Vomerine teeth in two shorter or longer oblique series 

 beginning close to, or at a short distance from the anterior 

 borders of the choanae, usually extending beyond the level of 

 their posterior borders; lower jaw with tv.o feeble prominences 

 in front. Head broader than long or as long as broad, rarely 

 slightly longer; snout rounded, or pointed, projecting, as long 

 as or a little longer than the upper eyelid, longer than deep; 

 canthus rostralis obtuse, straight ; loreal region very oblique, 

 concave; nostril equidistant from eye and tip of snout, or 

 nearer the latter; interorbital space much narrower than the 

 upper eyelid; tympanum distinct, about '/2 ^° Vs ^^^ width 

 of the eye. Fingers and toes obtusely pointed; first finger 

 extending beyond second ; toes ''/^ to nearly entirely webbed, 

 one or two phalanges of fourth toe being free, the web distinctly 

 emarginate ; subarticular tubercles moderate; a blunt inner, no 

 outer metatarsal tubercle ; a dermal fringe along the outer 

 side of fifth toe ; the heel reaches the eye or to between eye 

 and nostril; tibia I'Y^ to 2'/3 times in the length from snout 

 to vent ; when the hind limbs are folded at right angles to 

 the body, the heels strongly overlap. 



Back with small warts and with longitudinal ridges; a strong 

 fold above the tympanum; smooth beneath. 



