42 MR. W. L. SCLATER ON SPECIMENS OF [May 3, 



are Indian and Malayan, and 11 are exotic. The number of speci- 

 mens is 2045, of which again the bulk (1698) are Indian, and 347 

 are exotic. 



The number of species of Batrachians described in Mr. Boulenger's 

 recent book (* Reptilia and Batrachia of British India') is 130, of 

 which .5 are referred to the Batrachia Apoda, and 1 to the Batrachia 

 Caudata ; leaving 124 belonging to the Batrachia Salientia ; so that 

 it will be seen that a considerable number of the Indian species 

 are still unrepresented in the Indian Museum. A list of these de- 

 siderata is given below. 



The collection contains a considerable number of types described 

 by Stoliczka, Anderson, Blyth, and others. Of these also I have 

 thought it worth while to give a list. 



A complete list of the specimens of Batrachians in the Indian 

 Museum which I have drawn up will shortly be printed and 

 published by order of the Trustees. In the meanwhile I oflPer 

 to the Society these notes upon some of the more noteworthy 

 specimens. 



My best thanks are due to Mr. G. A. Boulenger of the British 

 Museum, who has most kindly assisted me both in naming obscure 

 specimens and in drawing up the descriptions of the new species. 

 The types of the latter will all be returned to the Indian Museum. 



1. Rana vicina. (Plate XXIV. figs. 1,1a.) 



This Frog was described by Stoliczka (Proc. As. Soc. Beug. 1872, 

 p. 130), and was with doubt referred by Boulenger (Ind. Rept. 

 p. 445) to JRana liebigii. 



An examination of the type at once shows that this Frog has 

 nothing to do with R. liebigii, but that it must remain separate as 

 a distinct species. 



The following is a redescription of the type : — Vomerine teeth, two 

 small oblique groups commencing at the middle of the choanse and 

 extending somewhat behind them ; no tooth-like prominence on 

 the lower jaw in the two specimens available for examination ; head 

 moderate ; snout somewhat oval ; canthus rostralis slightly marked ; 

 nostril halfway between the eye and the tip of the snout ; upper 

 eyelid two-thirds the width of the interorbital space ; no trace of 

 the tympanum ; fingers blunt, first slightly shorter than the second ; 

 toes webbed to the extreme tips ; subarticular tubercles well marked 

 and a long narrow not very large inner metatarsal tubercle, about 

 half the length of the inner toes ; no outer metatarsal tubercle ; 

 tibio-tarsal articulation reaches to in front of the eye ; skin of back 

 and belly smooth, a few tubercles on the flanks. Brown above ; 

 hind limbs mottled darker ; upper Hp dark brown and a dark 

 irregular line from the nostril to the eye and from the eye to the 

 commencement of the arm ; below lighter brown, rather darker 

 under the chin. 



This Frog seems on the whole most nearly allied to R. corrugata, 

 Peters, from Ceylon, from which, however, it differs in the absence 

 of the tooth-like prominences of the lower jaw, the much broader 



