26 RiNID^. 



16. Sana plicatella. 



Rana plicatella, iSfoUczka, Joum. As. Soc. 1873, p. 116, pi. xi. f. 1. 



Vomerine teeth in two short oblique converging series ; lower jaw 

 with two fang-like projections directed inwards. Head large ; snout 

 obtuse, with the canthi rostrales rounded ; interorbital space broader 

 than the upper eyelid ; .tympanum distinct, as large as the eye. 

 Pirst finger extending beyond second ; toes three-quarters webbed, 

 dilated at the tips into small disks ; a single, inner, elongated, meta- 

 tarsal tubercle. The hind limb being carried forwards along the 

 body, the tibio-tarsal articulation reaches 'between the eye and the tip 

 of the snout. Skin of the back with about eight longitudinal, some- 

 what interrupted folds, with numerous small tubercles between them ; 

 upper eyelid tubercular. Above greenish brown, with a dark band 

 from the nostril through the eye, continuing behind it; limbs trans- 

 versely barred ; hinder side of the thighs densely and rather minutely 

 variegated with dark brown ; a horseshoe-shaped yellow mark, open 

 below, round the vent ; beneath white, speckled with dark on the 

 tibiae and on the feet. 



Pinang. 



\/ 17. Eana tigrina. 



Eana tigrina, Giinth. Cat. p. 9. 

 Rana tigrina. Baud. JRain. p. 64, pi. 20, and Mept. yiii. p. 125 ; Ma-r. 



Tent. p. 174; Cuv. M. A. ; Ikim. Sf JBibr. p. 375 ; Kelaart, Frodr. 



Faun. Zeyl. p. 192; Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1863, p. 77; Giinth. 



Mept. Brit. Ind. p. 407 ; Steindachn. Novara, Amph. p. 17 ; GiXnth. 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 567 ; Anders. Anat. Zool. lies. Yunnan, 



p. 837. 



cancrivora, {Bote) Gravenh. Belie, p. 41 ; Tsehudi, Batr. p. 79. 



brama, Lesson, in B6!ang. Voy. Ind. Or., Bept. p. 829, pi. 6. 



vittigera, Wiegm. Nova Acta Ac. Leap. 1835, p. 225, t. 21. 



f. 1. r , r , 



ragulosa, Wiegm. I. c, p. 258, pi. 21. f. 2. 



orasea, Jerdon, Joum. As. Soc. 1853, p. 581 ; Theobald, Cat. 



Mept. As. Soc. Mus. p. 79 ; Anders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 199. 

 Hydrostentor pantherinus, Fitzing. Sitz. Ac. Wien, xlii. p. 414. 

 Pyxicephalus fodiens, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1860, p. 186. 

 Hoplobatrachus ceylanicus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1863, n 449- 



Giinth. Mept. Brit. Ind. p. 410. ' 



Rana latrans, Bavid, Nouv. Arch. Mus. vii. 1872, Bull. p. 76. 



Vomerine teeth in two oblique series commencing from the inner 

 anterior angle of the ohoanae ; lower jaw with two not very promi- 

 nent apophyses in front. Head moderate ; snout more or less pointed ; 

 interorbital space narrower than the upper eyelid ; tympanum dis- 

 tinct, about two thirds the size of the eye. Fingers rather short first 

 extending beyond second ,- toes moderate, nearly entirely webbed ; 

 a. much developed membranaceous fringe along the outer side of 

 the fifth toe ; subartioular tubercles of fingers and toes moderate • 

 inner metatarsal tubercle very variable, small or large, blunt or shovel- 

 shaped; no outer tubercle. The hind limb being carried forwards 



