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Show 42 MR. W. L. SCLATER ON SPECIMENS OF [May 3, are Indian and Malayan, and 77 are exotic. The number of specimens is 2045, of which again the bulk (1698) are Indian, and 347 are exotic. The number of species of Batrachians described in M r . Boulenger's recent book ('Reptilia and Batrachia of British India') is 130, of which 5 are referred to the Batrachia Apoda, and 1 to the Batrachia Caudata; leaving 124 belonging to the Batrachia Salientia ; so that it will be seen that a considerable number of the Indian species are still unrepresented in the Indian Museum. A list of these desiderata is given below. The collection contains a considerable number of types described by Stoliczka, Anderson, Blyth, and others. Of these also I have thought it worth while to give a list. A complete list of the specimens of Batrachians in the Indian Museum which I have drawn up will shortly be printed and published by order of the Trustees. In the meanwhile I offer to the Society these notes upon some of the more noteworthy specimens. M y best thanks are due to Mr. G. A . Boulenger of the British Museum, who has most kindly assisted m e both in naming obscure specimens and in drawing up the descriptions of the new species. The types of the latter will all be returned to the Indian Museum. 1. RANA VICINA. (Plate XXIV. figs. 1, 1 a.) This Frog was described by Stoliczka (Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 1872, p. 130), and was with doubt referred by Boulenger (Ind. Rept. p. 445) to Rana liebigii. A n examination of the type at once shows that this Frog has nothing to do with R. liebigii, but that it must remain separate as a distinct species. The following is a redescription of the type :-Vomerine teeth, two small oblique groups commencing at the middle of the choanae and extending somewhat behind them ; no tooth-like prominence on the lower jaw in the two specimens available for examination ; head moderate ; snout somewhat oval; canthus rostralis slightly marked ; nostril halfway between the eye and the tip of the snout; upper eyelid two-thirds the width of the interorbital space ; no trace of the tympanum ; fingers blunt, first slightly shorter than the second ; toes webbed to the extreme tips ; subarticular tubercles well marked and a long narrow not very large inner metatarsal tubercle, about half the length of the inner toes; no outer metatarsal tubercle; tibio-tarsal articulation reaches to in front of the eye ; skin of back and belly smooth, a few tubercles on the flanks. Brown above; hind limbs mottled darker ; upper lip dark brown and a dark irregular line from the nostril to the eye and from the eye to the commencement of the arm ; below lighter brown, rather darker under the chin. This Frog seems on the whole most nearly allied to R. corrugata, Peters, from Ceylon, from which, however, it differs in the absence of the tooth-like prominences of the lower jaw, the much broader |