200 DR. J. ANDERSON ON INDIAN REPTILES. [Feb. 21, 



Rana gracilis, Wiegm. ; Gthr. /. c. p. 409. 



This species appears to be widely distributed from Central India 

 through Bengal, Assam, Arakan, Burmah, and Tenasserim, as far 

 south as Penang. I have not seen any specimens from the Nicobars 

 or Andamans, as the Frogs from these localities referred by Dr. Sto- 

 liczlca to this species appear to be quite distinct. Dr. Stoliczka men- 

 tions that it does not hesitate to take to the sea or brackish water, 

 and that it is a true littoral species, overlooking, however, the fact 

 that it is widely distributed over Central India, Bengal, and Burmah, 

 far removed from the sea. The probability is that he had the An- 

 daman and Nicobar species in view when he made the foregoing 

 generalization, and not true R. gracilis. 



Rana cyanophlyctis, Schneid. 



This species is very common in the Nagpur district, Central India, 

 and it occurs also in Orissa and in the neighbourhood of Calcutta, 

 but is less numerous in the Malayan peninsula, according to 

 Giinther. 



Pyxicephalus breviceps, Schneid. ; Gthr. I. c. p. 411. 



Pyxicephalus fodiens, Jerdon, As. Soc. Journ. xxii. p. 534. 



This handsome species, of which I have received twenty-one speci- 

 mens from Agra, where it appears to be common, has been found 

 hitherto only in the Carnatic. In four the marbling of the back is con- 

 fluent over the mesial line of the back as a vertebral black line, con- 

 nected, however, with the reticulations. In others there is a tendency 

 in the lateral reticulations to form a black lateral band from behind 

 the eye. Out of twenty-one specimens, only nine show the white ver- 

 tebral line. The black spots on the back are not, as a rule, so distinct 

 as in Giinther's figure, nor have they the white border ; and in some 

 they almost disappear, while in others they are converted into rings, 

 enclosing a pale centre of the same colour as the general surface of 

 the body. In the specimens with no trace of a vertebral line the spots 

 are all but obsolete. 



Dr. Jerdon' s P. fodiens is simply P. breviceps without a pale 

 vertebral line. 



Xenophrys monticola, Gthr. /. c. p. 414. 



Xenophrys yiyas, Jerdon, Proc. As. Soc. Bengal, 18/0, p. 85. 



I have received seven specimens of this beautiful Frog from Darjeel- 

 ing ; and have removed another uninjured specimen from the stomach 

 of an example of Tropidonotus macrophthcdmus. The largest spe- 

 cimen measures 2" 8'" in length, the hind limb 4" 1'"; the smallest 

 is 1" 5'" long, and its hind limb 2" 4'". There are two varieties of 

 coloration, the one a light and the other a dark brown. They agree 

 in every particular with Giinther's description ; so that I shall merely 

 indicate one or two points which appear to be characteristic of the 

 species, and which Giinther could not have been expected to notice 



