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below, mottled and spotted darker. A Mindanao specimen is 
grayish, with a hair line on back with two dark stripes on each 
side; arms and legs barred with darker; the small tubercles on 
hind legs tipped with yellowish. The rows of glands on neck 
are scarcely visible in preserved specimens, but are distinct in 
living frogs. 
'Remarks . — The frogs of this species are thoroughly aquatic 
in habit, and are invariably found in water. They sit in the 
edges of the pools, only the snout and part of the head emerging. 
On the slightest disturbance they disappear below the surface, 
where they remain for a considerable time. A search among 
leaves and mud at the bottom of small pools often revealed spec- 
imens whose presence was only suspected. These frogs appear 
to be found everywhere in the Philippines. Specimens were 
collected by H. Otley Beyer at Banaue, Mountain Province, at 
an elevation of 1,800 meters. They are known from Luzon, 
Samar, Leyte, Mindanao, Dinagat, Basilan, Sulu Archipelago, 
Negros, Panay, Mindoro, Palawan, and Busuanga; also from 
Celebes, Borneo, Sumatra, Malay Peninsula, and Burma. The 
two types in the British Museum are females, both from the 
Philippines; the exact type locality is no longer known. 
Genus RANA Linnaeus 
Rana Linn^us, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 1 (1758) 210; Wagler, Nat. Syst. 
Amph. (1830) 203; Tschudi, Class. Batr. (1838) 78; Dumeril and 
Bibron, Erp. Gen. 8 (1841) 335; Gunther, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. 
Mus. (1858) 8; Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus. ed. 2 (1882) 
6; Stejneger, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 58 (1907) 93. 
Hylarana Tschudi, Class. Batr. (1838) 78. 
Hylorana Gunther, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus. (1858) 71; Kept. 
Brit. India (1864) 423. 
Limnodytes Dumeril and Bibron, Erp. Gen. 8 (1841) 510. 
Polypedates Tschudi, Class. Batr. (1838) 78; Gunther, Cat. Batr. 
Sal. Brit. Mus. (1858) 77. 
“Pupil horizontal. Tongue free and deeply notched behind. 
Vomerine teeth. Tympanum distinct or hidden. Fingers free; 
toes webbed, with simple or dilated tips. Outer metatarsals 
separated by web. Omosternum and sternum with a strong 
bony style. Terminal phalanges acute, transversely dilated or 
T-shaped.” {Boulenger.) 
Widely distributed, except in the southern parts of South 
America and in New Zealand. Absent in Australia, except in 
the extreme northern part. 
It has been necessary to eliminate from the Philippine list 
some species long regarded as occurring there, such as RaTia 
