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RANIDiB. 



the distance between vent and metatarsal tubercle being equal to, or 

 somewhat more than, the length of the body. Tips of toes slightly 

 swollen ; fingers tapering ; toes completely webbed, a narrow fringe 

 along the inner metatarsal edge, including a single elongate tubercle. 

 Brown above, marbled with darker. A yellowish cross band between 

 the eyes. Lower parts whitish. Throat and inner side of the hind 

 limbs marbled with brown. Attains from 2 to 4 inches in length. 



Hah. — Sind, Boloochistan, Kutch, Bombay, Bengal, Ceylon and Java. 



Baua cyanophlyctis, Schn. Hist. Am-ph. i. p. 137; Peters, Situ. 

 Berl. Acad. 1863; Gunther, Rep. Br. Ind. p. 406 ; Blanford, East. 

 Pers. ii. p. 433. Rana bengalensis, Gray, Ind. Zool. ; Kelaart, Prod. 

 Faun. Zeyl. i. p. 192. Rana leschenaulti. Cantor. Mai. Bep. p. 138; 

 Gunth. B. et Sal. p. 11. (Baydur, Sind.) 



Snout moderate, without canthus rostralis ; tympanum distiuct, as 

 large as the eye; lower jaw with two distinct apophysis in front; 

 vomerine teeth present, small, in two oblique series converging behind. 

 Tongue deeply notched. Vocal sacs large, externally separated, situated 

 in a long slit at the lower margin of the mandibles, but communicating 

 ■with each other interiorly. No fold of skin across the occiput. Back 

 tubercular, warty or nearly smooth. Hind limbs moderate, the 

 distance between vent and knee being one half the length of the body ; 

 fingers pointed ; tips of the toes very slightly swollen ; webs entire, 

 reaching to the tips of the toes ; a cutaneous fringe along the outer 

 margins of the first and fifth toes, and an indistinct fold along the 

 metatarsus. Fourth toe slightly longer than the third and fifth ; metatar- 

 sus with a single pointed tubercle. 



Colour in life — Adults. — Upper parts greenish yellow, dirty yellowish 

 in some, with irregular spots of dark brown. Usually a large sub- 

 triangular dark spot between the eyes on the occiput; fore and hind 

 limbs externally barred and marbled with dark brown ; a yellow band 

 along the under side of the thighs from one ham to the other. Under 

 side white, thickly spotted with dark brown. Webs of hind feet yellow- 

 ish, faintly marbled with brown. In adolescent specimens from 1 

 to Ji inches long, the markings are similar ; the vomerine teeth are 

 wanting, and in every respect agree with the description of Gunther's 

 Bicroglosus Adolplvi [Rep. Br. Ind. p. 402.) Young, and undeveloped 

 specimens with a small tail have their under surface unspotted white. 

 There is no trace of vomerine teeth, and themetatarsal tubercle, (the limb 

 laid forward) reaches a little beyond the eye, while in adults and adole- 

 scent specimens this tubercle reaches the end of the snout or beyond. 



Hah, — Sind, Beloochistan, Punjab, N. W. Provinces, Oudh, Lower 

 Bengal, Kutch, Rajputana, and the Western Presidency generally, also 

 Ceylon, Southern India and Nepaul. 



Rana tigrina, Baud. Rain. p. 64, pi. 20; B. et B. Erpet. gen. viii. p. 

 375; Kelaart, Prod. Faun. Zeyl. i. p. 192; Gunth. Batr. Sal. p. 9; 

 Peters. Sitz. Berl. Acad. 1863, p. 77. Rana cancrivora, (Boio) Gravnih. 

 Belie, p. 41 ; Murray, BdbJc, Zool., 8)~c.,Siiid, p. 262. — The Bull Fnos. 



Snout moderate, without canthus rostralis. Tympanum moderate, as 



