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Rana erythraea (Schlegel). Plate 1, fig. 2. 
Hyla erythrxa Schlegel, Abbild. Amphib. (1837) 27, pi. 4, fig. 3. 
Limnodytes erythrseus Dumeeil and Bibron, Erp. Gen. 8 (1841) 
511; Cantor, Cat. Mai. Kept. (1847) 141; Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 
16 (1847) 1062. 
Hylarana erythrxa TscHUDi, Class. Batr. (1838) 78. 
Hylorana erythrsea Gunther, Kept. Brit. India (1864) 425; Sto- 
LiczKA, Proc. As. Soc. Bengal (1872) 104; Anderson, Zool. Yunnan 
846; Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus. ed. 2 (1882) 65; Fischer, 
Jahrb. Wiss..Anst. Hamburg 2 (1885) 80. 
Hylorana subcserulea Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia (1868). 
Rana erythrxa Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London (1897) 231; Bar- 
bour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard Coll. 44 (1912) 67. 
Description of species . — (From No. 858, E. H. Taylor col- 
lection; collected at Hinigaran, Negros, P. I., October, 1915, by 
E. H. Taylor.) Vomerine teeth in two transverse, oblique, con- 
verging series, arising near the anterior inner edge of choanse, 
and extending somewhat behind their hinder level, separated 
from each other by a distance equal to the length of a single 
group; choanse small, partly hidden under edge of jaw; tongue 
notched deeply behind, forming two rather long horns ; head elon- 
gate, nearly one-fourth longer than wide; snout rather pointed, 
one and one-half times diameter of eye; nostril nearer end of 
snout than eye; tympanum large, distinct, rounded, its diameter 
about four-fifths that of eye, separated from eye by a distance 
slightly more than half its diameter ; interorbital region equal to 
the width of an upper eyelid; distance between nostrils equals 
their distance from eyes; skin above on back granular, on head 
smooth, no granules on upper eyelids ; snout high, projecting over 
lower jaw; canthus rostralis rounded; loreal region nearly verti- 
cal, a deep groove behind nostril on lores; a broad dorsolateral 
