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  RANID.E. 
  

  

  20. 
  Rana 
  agilis. 
  

   (Plate 
  XXIY.) 
  

  

  Rana 
  temporaria, 
  part., 
  Daudin, 
  Hist. 
  Rain. 
  Gren. 
  Crap., 
  p. 
  46, 
  

   pi. 
  xv, 
  fig. 
  2 
  (1803), 
  and 
  Hist. 
  Rept., 
  viii, 
  p. 
  94 
  (1803); 
  

   Dumcril 
  & 
  Bibron, 
  Erp. 
  Gen., 
  viii, 
  p. 
  358(1841); 
  Giinther, 
  

   Cat. 
  Batr. 
  Sal., 
  p. 
  16 
  (1858); 
  Schreiber, 
  Herp. 
  Eur., 
  p. 
  125 
  

   (1875) 
  ; 
  De 
  Betta, 
  Atti 
  1st. 
  Venet. 
  (6), 
  iv, 
  1885, 
  p. 
  45. 
  

  

  Rana 
  iemjporaria 
  (non 
  Linnaeus), 
  Millet, 
  Faune 
  Maine 
  et 
  Loire, 
  

   ii, 
  p. 
  664 
  (1828). 
  

  

  Rana 
  dalmatina, 
  Fitzinger, 
  in 
  Bonaparte, 
  Mem. 
  Ace. 
  Torin. 
  (2), 
  

   ii, 
  1839, 
  p. 
  249.* 
  

  

  Rana 
  agilis, 
  Thomas, 
  Ann. 
  Sc. 
  Nat. 
  (4), 
  iv, 
  1855, 
  p. 
  365, 
  pi. 
  vii, 
  

   figs. 
  1—4; 
  Fatio, 
  Rev. 
  & 
  Mag. 
  Zool. 
  (2), 
  xiv, 
  1862, 
  p. 
  81, 
  

   pis. 
  vi 
  & 
  vii 
  ; 
  Steenstrup, 
  Vid. 
  Meddel., 
  1869, 
  p. 
  16 
  ; 
  Fatio, 
  

   Vert. 
  Suisse, 
  iii, 
  p. 
  333 
  (1872) 
  ; 
  De 
  l'lsle, 
  Ann. 
  Sc. 
  Nat. 
  (5), 
  

   xvii, 
  1873, 
  art. 
  3, 
  p. 
  3 
  ; 
  De 
  Betta, 
  Faun. 
  Ital., 
  Rett. 
  Anf., 
  

   p. 
  65 
  (1874) 
  ; 
  Lataste, 
  Herp. 
  Gir., 
  p. 
  233 
  (1876) 
  ; 
  Leydig, 
  An. 
  

   Batr., 
  p. 
  143 
  (1877) 
  ; 
  Lessona, 
  Atti 
  Ace. 
  Lincei, 
  Mem. 
  CI. 
  Sc. 
  

   fis., 
  i, 
  1877, 
  p. 
  1074, 
  pi. 
  iii 
  ; 
  Heron-Royer, 
  Bull. 
  Soc. 
  Zool. 
  

   France, 
  1878, 
  p. 
  128, 
  pi. 
  iii, 
  fig. 
  1; 
  Boulenger, 
  Bull. 
  Soc. 
  

   Zool. 
  France, 
  1879, 
  p. 
  183, 
  1880, 
  p. 
  209, 
  and 
  Cat. 
  Batr. 
  Ecaud., 
  

   p. 
  46 
  (1882); 
  Camerano, 
  Mem. 
  Ace. 
  Torin. 
  (2), 
  xxxv, 
  1883, 
  

   p. 
  274, 
  pi. 
  i, 
  figs. 
  5-8; 
  Heron-Royer, 
  Bull. 
  Soc. 
  Et. 
  Sc. 
  

   Angers 
  (2), 
  xiv, 
  1885, 
  p. 
  124, 
  and 
  Bull. 
  Soc. 
  Zool. 
  France, 
  

   1886, 
  p. 
  681; 
  Borelli, 
  Boll. 
  Mus. 
  Torin., 
  i, 
  1886, 
  No. 
  14; 
  

   Boettger, 
  in 
  Radde, 
  Faun. 
  Flor. 
  Casp.-Geb., 
  p. 
  77 
  (1886), 
  and 
  

   Sitzb. 
  Ak. 
  Berl., 
  1888, 
  p. 
  148; 
  Leydig, 
  Verh. 
  Phys. 
  Ges. 
  

   Wiirzb. 
  (2), 
  xxii, 
  No. 
  6, 
  1888, 
  and 
  Zool. 
  Anz., 
  1889, 
  p. 
  316; 
  

   Heron-Royer 
  & 
  Van 
  Bambeke, 
  Arch. 
  Biol., 
  ix, 
  1889, 
  p. 
  255; 
  

   Bedriaga, 
  Bull. 
  Soc. 
  Nat. 
  Moscou, 
  1889, 
  p. 
  323 
  ; 
  Wolterstorff, 
  

   Zool. 
  Anz., 
  1890, 
  p. 
  260; 
  Mehely, 
  Zool. 
  Anz., 
  1890, 
  p. 
  447; 
  

   Melsheimer, 
  Verh. 
  Ver. 
  Rheinl. 
  (5), 
  vii, 
  1890, 
  p. 
  82; 
  Bou- 
  

   lenger, 
  Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc, 
  1891, 
  p. 
  609, 
  pi. 
  xiv, 
  fig. 
  7; 
  Mehely, 
  

   Beitr. 
  Mon. 
  Kronstadt, 
  Herp., 
  p. 
  61 
  (1892), 
  and 
  Math. 
  Term. 
  

   Kozl. 
  Budapest, 
  xxv, 
  1892, 
  p. 
  43, 
  pis. 
  iii 
  & 
  v 
  ; 
  Leydig, 
  Zool. 
  

   Gait., 
  xxxiii, 
  1892, 
  p. 
  321; 
  Boettger, 
  Ber. 
  Senck. 
  Ges., 
  1892, 
  

   p. 
  lxxxii; 
  Stoll, 
  Vierteljahrschr. 
  Nat. 
  Ges. 
  Zurich, 
  xxxvii, 
  

  

  * 
  The 
  strict 
  application 
  of 
  the 
  law 
  of 
  priority 
  would 
  require 
  the 
  

   adoption 
  of 
  this 
  name 
  in 
  preference 
  to 
  that 
  proposed 
  by 
  Thomas 
  sixteen 
  

   years 
  later, 
  as 
  the 
  former 
  was 
  accompanied 
  by 
  a 
  definition 
  (" 
  Gigantea, 
  

   pedibus 
  posticis 
  longissimus 
  "), 
  however 
  inadequate, 
  and 
  specimens 
  so 
  

   labelled 
  by 
  Fitzinger 
  are 
  preserved 
  in 
  the 
  Vienna 
  Museum. 
  However, 
  

   this 
  is 
  one 
  of 
  those 
  cases 
  in 
  which, 
  it 
  appears 
  to 
  me, 
  conservatism 
  is 
  

   desirable, 
  as 
  the 
  name 
  agilis 
  was 
  the 
  first 
  to 
  appear 
  in 
  connection 
  with 
  

   a 
  proper 
  description, 
  and 
  has 
  been 
  so 
  generally 
  in 
  use 
  within 
  the 
  last 
  

   half-century. 
  Similar 
  considerations 
  have 
  guided 
  me 
  in 
  the 
  naming 
  of 
  

   the 
  two 
  species 
  of 
  the 
  genus 
  Bombinator, 
  and 
  I 
  hope, 
  in 
  the 
  interest 
  of 
  

   the 
  stability 
  of 
  nomenclature, 
  they 
  will 
  commend 
  themselves 
  to 
  future 
  

   workers. 
  

  

  