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Show 346 MR. W . L. SCLATER ON SPECIMENS OF [May 3, another name. Hylorana leptoglossa, Cope, the second name in Boulenger's list of synonyms, also refers to a species with a thick and heavy glandular lateral fold, and must therefore be referred to R. erythrcea too ; of Hylorana pipiens, Jerdon, the specific name "pipiens" is already engaged; Hylorana granulosa, Anderson, refers to a different species altogether (see below). The type of Limnodytes nigrovittatus (Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxiv. 1855, p. 718) is still in the Indian Museum, and an examination of it shows that it must clearly be referred to Boulenger's Rana tytleri. The species will therefore stand under the name Rana nigrovittata (Blyth). There are examples of this species in the Museum from all parts of Assam, Cachar, Pegu, and Tenasserim, and of R. erythrcea from Lower Bengal (Calcutta and Dacca), Assam, and Burma. 11. RANA GRANULOSA, Anderson, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xl. 1871, p. 23. This species has been provisionally identified by Boulenger (Iiul. Rept. p. 458) with Rana nigrovittata ( = Rana tytleri, Boul.), but it differs markedly from it in many ways. The vomerine teeth are longer, and usually reach to well behind the choanae; the first finger extends well beyond the second; the toes are two-thirds webbed, the web being deeply incised and barely reaching to the tips of the third and fifth digits; the subarticular and the inner and outer metatarsal tubercles are all very strongly developed ; the skin of the back is markedly granulate, with broad prominent glandular lateral folds; there is a second glandular fold along the upper lips from below the eye to the shoulder, ending in a large rounded granule; the colour is reddish brown above, irregularly spotted, darker below, speckled throughout. 12. RHACOPHORUS LATERALIS, Boulenger, Ann. Mag. N.H. (5) xii. 1883, p. 162; id. Ind. Rept. p. 473. There is a second specimen of this hitherto unique species in the Indian Museum ; it was obtained by Mr. W . M . Daly at Koppa in Mysore, and by him presented to the Museum. 13. RHACOPHORUS CAViRosTRis(Giinth.); Boulenger, Ind.Rept, p. 481. There is a Frog in the Indian Museum resembling the type of R. cavirostris in every respect, except that the hind limbs are a little longer, since the tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the tip of the snout, whereas in the typical form the tibio-tarsal articulation reaches only to between the eye and the snout. The Indian Museum specimen was procured by Limborg in Tenasserim, and, if correctly referred to R. cavirostris, considerably extends the distribution of this species, which has hitherto been known only from Ceylon. |