AMPHIBIA. 

 ANURA. 



Genus Ran a, Auct. 

 Eana tigrina, Daud. 



Rana tigrina,li)wA., Hist. Rept.j 1803, vol. viii, p. 125; Hist, des Rainettes,, &c., 1803, p. 64, 

 pi. XX ; Merrem. Tent. Syst. Amph., 1820, p. 174; Dum. & Bibr., Erpet. Genl., vol. viii, 1841, 

 p. 375 ; Cantor, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, 1847, vol. xvi, p. 1060 ; Kelaart, Prod. Journ. ZooL, 

 1852, p. 192; Jerdon, Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xxii, 1853, p, 531 ; Guntlier, Cat. Batr. Sal., 

 1858, p. 9; Rept. Brit. Ind., 1864, p. 407; Peters, Monats. Berl. Akad., 1863, p. 77 ; Steind., 

 Rept, Reise Novara, 1867, p. 18, pi. i, figs. 14-17 ; Theobald, Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, 

 vol. xxxvii, 1868, p. 79; Stoliczka, Proc. As. Soc, Bengal, 1872^ pp. 85-102; Journ. As. 

 Soc, Bengal, 1873, vol. xlii, p. 112 ; Ferguson, Rept. Fauna, Ceylon, 1877, p. 26. 



Bana mugiens, Daud., Rainettes, &c., 1803, pi. xxiii (not descr.) ; Latr. Rept., 1801, vol. ii, p. 153 

 (in part) . 



Bana pida, Gravenb., Delic Mus. Zool. Vratislav. (Batr.), 1829, p. 39. 



Bana cancrivora, Gravenb., Delic. Mus. Zool. Vratislav. (Batr.), 1829, p. 41 ; Tscbudi, Classif. Batr. 

 Mem. Soc Sc. Nat. Neucbat., vol. ii, 1839, p. 79. 



Ba7ia hrama, Lesson, Zool. du Voy. de Belanger, Rept,, 1834, p. 329, pi. vi. 



Bana nigulosa, Weigm., Nov. Act. Acad. C. Leop., vol. xvii, 1835, p. 255, pi. xxi, fig. 1. 



Bana vittigera, Weigm., Nov. Act. Acad. C. Leop., vol. xvii, 1835, p. 258, pi. xxi, fig. 2. 



The specimens of this frog which were collected in Hotha have the limhs slightly- 

 shorter than the length of the hody, which is in reverse proportion to what prevails 

 in Indian individuals. Eut in all other characters they conform. 



The males during the breeding season are pale greenish-yellow with dark spots 

 and a pale vertebral streak, and are smaller than the females which are greyish-olive 

 with dark spots. 



This species has a very wide distribution, extending from China and the Malayan 

 Peninsula through Burma, India, Ceylon and the lower or outlying ranges of the 

 Himalayas as far west as the Indus. 



Rana ruscA, Blyth. 



Ba7ia fusca, Blytb, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xxxiv, pp. 719-720; Giintber, Rept. Brit. 

 Ind., 1864, p. 403; Tbeobald, Cat. Rept. As. Soc. Mus., 1868, p. 79; Giintber, Proc. ZooL 

 Soc, 1868,. p. 478; Anderson, Proc Zool. Soc, 1871, p. 197; Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc, 

 Bengal, vol. xlii (1873), p. 115. 



