44 KANIDJJ. 



dark-spotted ; a brown temporal spot ; a -white line from beneath 

 the eye to the extremity of that spot ; beneath spotted with grey. 

 Male apparently ■without vocal sacs. 

 W. N. America. 



a-d- d, 2,&Jg- Sumas Prairies. Lord J. Kussell [P.]. 



50. Eana temporaria. 



Rana temporaria, var. platyrhinus, Ounth. Cat. p. 16. 

 Mosel, Hist. Han. p. 1, pis. 1-8. 

 Rana temporaria, part., Z. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, p. 357. 

 muta, Laur. Syn. liept. p. 30. 



temporaria, Schneid. Hist. Amph. i. p. 113 ; Zatr. Sal. p. 37, 



and Sept. ii. p. 150 ; Shaw, Zool. iii. p. 97 ; Baud. Rain. p. 46, 

 pi. 15, and Bept. viii. p. 94; Merrem, Tent. p. 175; Fenn. Brit. 

 Zool. iii. p. 9 ; Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 300 ; Bmap. Faun. Ital. ; 

 Schinz, Faun. Helv. p. 143 ; Tschvdi, Batr. p. 79 ; Bell., Brit. Eept. 

 p. 84; Bum. (^ Bilrr. p. 359; Koch, Ber. Senck. Oes. 1872, p. 135 ; 

 Fatio, Vert. Suisse, iii. p. 321 ; De Beita, Faun. Ital., Bett. Anf. 

 p. 64; Lessona, Atti Ac. Lincei, Mem. CI. Sc.-Jis. i. p. 1068, pi. ii. 



flaviventria. Millet, Faun. Maine et Loire, ii. p. 663. 



cruenta, Pallas, Zoogr. Boss.-As. p. 12. 



alpina, Risso, Hist. Nat. Eur. mSr. iii. p. 93 ; Bonap. I. c. 



scotica. Bell, I. e. p. 102. 



platyrrhinus, Steenstr. Amtl. Ber. 24. Vers. Kiel, p. 131. 



fusca. Be I'Isle, Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, xvii. 1873 ; Leydig, An. 



Batr. p. 116 ; Bouleng.Butt. Sac. Zool. France, 1879, p. 164; HSrnn 

 Boyer, Bull. Ac. Belg. (3) i. no. 2, p. 1-39. 



temporaria, var. platyrrhina, Schreib. Herp. Eur. p. 126. 



dyhowaliii, Qunth. Ann. Sf Mag. N. H. 1876, xvu. p. 387. 



Vomerine teeth, in two smaU oblique groups extending beyond the 

 hinder edge of the choanse. Head moderate ; snout short, blunt ; 

 interorbital space as broad as the upper eyelid ; tympanum distinct, 

 two thirds the diameter of the eye. Pingers moderate, first extend- 

 ing beyond second ; toes at least two-thirds webbed ; subarticular 

 tubercles of fingers and toes moderate ; inner ijaetatarsal tubercle 

 small, obtuse; outer tubercle none or scarcely distinct. The hind 

 limb being carried forwards along the body, the tibio-tarsal articu- 

 lation reaches hardly the tip of the snout. A moderately prominent 

 glandular lateral fold. Upper parts greyish or brown, more or less 

 spotted with dark brown or black ; a more or less intense dark tem- 

 poral spot ; a light line from below the eye to the extremity of the 

 temporal spot ; sides of body largely spotted ; limbs transversely 

 barred ; beneath more or less spotted. Male with two internal 

 vocal sacs. 



Europe ; Northern and Temperate Asia. 



a. Many spec. ; d , S ; & yg- Scotland. 



b, c. Skeletons. England. 

 d-e,f-h. d2- England. 



i, h. 3 $ (stuifed). Cambridgeshire. 



Ir-m. $ & hgr. Surrey. Museum Leach, 



