26 EANID^. 



16. Rana plicatella. 



Raiia plicatella, Stoliczha, Journ. As. Soc. 1873, p. 116, pi. xi. f. 1. 



Vomerine teeth iji two short oblique converging series ; lower jaw 

 with tAYO fang-like projections directed in'W'ards. Head lai'ge ; 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 tubei'cle. The hind limb being carried forwards along the 

 body, the tibio-tarsal articulation reaches between the eye and the ti-p 

 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, continuing behind it ; limbs trans- 

 versely barred ; hinder side of the thighs densely and rather minutely 

 variegated with dark brown ; a horseshoe-shaped yellow mark, open 

 below, round the vent ; beneath white, speckled with dark on the 

 tibiae and on the feet. 



Pinang. 



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17. Rana tigrina. 



Rana tigrina, Gunth. Cat. p. 9. 

 E,ana tigrina, Davd. Bain. p. 64, pi. 20, and Rept. riii. p. 125 ; Merr. 



Tent. p. 174; Cuv. E. A. ; Dmn. ^- Bihr. p. 375 ; Kelaart, Prodr. 



Faun. Zeyl. p. 192; Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1863, p. 77; Gunth. 



Bept. Brit. Ind. p. 407; Steindachn. Novara, AmjjJi. p. 17; Giinth. 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 567; Anders. Anat. Zool. Bes. Yu?ijtan, 



p. 837. 



cancrivora, {Boie) Gravenh. DeJic. p. 41 ; Tschudi, Batr. p. 79. 



brama, Lesson, in Belang. Voy. Bid. Or., Bept. p. 329, pi. 6. 



vittigera, Wieym. Nova Acta Ac. Leap. 1835, p. 225, t. 21. 



f. 1. 



rugulosa, Wiegm. I. c. p. 258, pi. 21. f. 2. 



crassa, Jerdon, Journ. As. Soc. 1853, p. 581 ; Theobald, Cat. 



Bept. As. Soc. Mus. p. 79 ; Anders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 199. 

 Hydrostentor pantherinus, Fitzing. Sitz. Ac. Wien, xlii. p. 414. 

 Pj-xicephalus fodiens, Peters, 3Ion. Berl. Ac. 1860, p. 186. 

 Hoplobatrachus ceylauicus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 186.3, p. 449 ; 



Giinth. Bept. Brit. Ind. p. 410. 

 Kana latrans, David, Nouv. Arch. Mus. vii. 1872, Bidl. p. 70. 



Vomerine teeth in two oblique series commencing from the inner 

 anterior angle of the choante ; 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 shovel- 

 Bhaped; no outer tubercle.. The hind limb being carried forwards 



