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Show 1896.] BATRACHIANS OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 901 Specimens from Singapore.-Upper parts bright bronze or chocolate-red, varies very much in intensity, in captivity becomes a pale yellowish- or brownish-red. In one half-grown specimen the upper parts were a dark olive-brown. A very narrow pale yellow vertebral stripe seems usually present, but often very irregular, not following the centre of the back. Lower surfaces yellow, paler or bluish-white on the throat, more or less spotted or mottled with black. Lips very pale yellow, extensively marked with black. A black line under the fold from eye to tympanum, continued but narrower to angle of mouth. Iris golden. Limbs indistinctly barred wdth dark brown; a narrow, pale yellow, distinct stripe clown the hind leg, the skin behind this is white or vellow, marbled with black; the web between tbe toes is dark brown. Quite small specimens, of about 40 mm. in length, are very differently coloured from the adults, and somewhat resemble Rana llmnocharis. Size. The largest Penang specimen is 92 mm. from snout to vent. The largest Singapore specimen I have measured is 165 mm. from snout to vent, and the width of the head at the angle of the mouth is 76 mm. This species seems to attain a larger size in Singapore than in any other locality. Hab. Upper Burma, Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 6. RANA PLICATELLA, Stol. Rana plicatella, Stol. J. A. S. B. 1873, p. 116, pl. xi. fig. 1 ; Boul. Cat. Batr. Sal. p. 26. This Frog wTas discovered by Stoliczka in tbe collection he got from Penang and Province Wellesley. Hab. Malay Peninsula. 7. RANA TIGRINA, Daud. Rana tigrina, Cantor, p. 139; Boul. Cat. Batr. Sal. p. 26; id. Fauna Brit. Ind., Rept. p. 449 (figured). Cantor says this species "is excessively numerous in valleys and hills, after heavy falls of rain, Malayan Peninsula and Islands." Stoliczka (J. A. S. B. 1873, p. 112) mentions Rana tigrina, var. pantherina, in the collection he got from Penang aud Province Wellesley. There are in the British Museum specimens from Penang, from Dr. Cantor. Major Sykes, and Sir A. Smith. In April 1895 I found this Frog common in the evening about Kota Star, Kedah. Hab. Nepal, Sikhim, India, Ceylon, Burma, China, Formosa, Siam, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 8. RANA LIMNOCHARIS, Boie. Rana gracilis, Boul. Cat. Batr. Sal. p. 28; Stol. J. A. S. B. 1870, p. 142. Rana lymnocharis, Stol. J. A. S. B. 1873, p. 116. Rana llmnocharis, Boul. Fauna Brit. Ind., Rept. p. 450. |
