402 DR. J. ANDERSON ON PERSIAN, [Mar. 5, 



second large temporal confluent -with the sixth labial. In these 

 characters it is intermediate between the two species. I have 

 another specimen before me with the divergent anterior frontals of 

 H. himalayanvs ; but it bas only the sixth labial confluent with the 

 middle temporal. In the first-mentioned specimen the anterior are 

 nearly as large as the posterior frontals ; but in the second they are 

 considerably smaller than the hinder frontals, which are more or less 

 pointed anteriorly. If this individual had had its small anterior 

 frontals in a straight transverse line, with only one temporal entering 

 the lip, it might with equal propriety have been referred to one or 

 other of the two species. The bearing of these variations is appa- 

 rent. The colouring is as described in the ' Reptiles of British 

 India.' 



Batrachia salienta. 

 Rana esculenta, Linn. 



Vomerine teeth in a transverse row between the inner nostrils. 

 These specimens have the membrane reaching to the extremity of 

 the outer margin of the first, second, and third toes and to the end 

 of the inner margin of the fifth. The third and fifth toes are nearly 

 equal, the last being, if any thing, longer than the first-mentioned ; 

 but to all practical purposes they may be regarded as equal. The 

 fourth is one third longer than the third and fifth. The internal 

 tubercle is oblong and laterally compressed, and of moderate size ; 

 the external tubercle round and obscure. The lateral glandular fold 

 is never pale-coloured ; and the dorsal white line occurs in four out 

 of twelve specimens. The dark band along the cauthus rostralis and 

 over the tympanum can be faintly detected in a few. There are no 

 true dorsal glandular folds ; but the back is covered with rounded, 

 not prominent, glandular spots. 



General colour dark olive, profusely or sparsely covered with 

 black spots ; the limbs either banded or black-spotted. Some spe- 

 cimens have the under surface of the hind limbs with one or two 

 black spots ; while others have a much larger number, and the spots 

 of the side extending on to the belly, while the whole of the under 

 surface is more or less very obscurely apparently reticulated with 

 blackish, but so faintly that it is hardly noticeable. 



These specimens are larger than the European examples of the 

 species, seven out of the twelve exceeding 3 inches, the largest mea- 

 suring 4" 1'" from the snout to the vent, and the hind limb 6" T". 



llab. Shiraz, Persia. 



Rana cyanophlyctis, Schneid. 

 Ilab. Katmandoo, Ncpaul. 



Rana gracilis, Wiegm. 

 Ilab. Katmandoo, Nepaul. 



Bufo viridis, Laur. 



I have received seven specimens of this species from Shiraz, 



