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Show 1892.] FROGS IN THE INDIAN MUSEUM. 347 14. IXALUS CINERASCENS, Stoliczka, Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 1870, p. 275. This species has been referred by Boulenger (Ind. Rept. p. 510) to Leptobrachium monticola; but an examination of the type shows that it is a true Ixalus, and that it is most nearly allied to Ixalus hypomelas, Giinth., from which it differs in its shorter snout and its shorter legs, the tibio-tarsal articulation only reaching as far as the eye ; the legs also are cross-banded. 15. IXALUS GLANDULOSUS (Jerdon); Boulenger, Ind. Rept. p. 488. Ixalus punctatus (Anderson, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xl. 1871, p. 27), identified with doubt by Boulenger with Lvalus leucorhinus, is really, as shown by comparison of the type in the Indian Museum, identical with Ixalus glandulosus. 16. IXALUS ASPER, Boulenger, P. Z. S. 1886, p. 415. The Indian Museum possesses an example of this species procured by one of the Museum Collectors in the Burma-Siam hills. It had previously been got only by^ Mr. Wray in Perak, so that it is an addition to the Indian fauna. The Indian Museum specimen agrees in every way with the type, with which it has been compared. 17« MICROHYLA ACHATINA (Boie); Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. p. 166. The Indian Museum possesses an example of this little Frog from Ahsoon in Tenasserim. As this species has been hitherto recorded only from Java and the Moluccas, it is an addition to the fauna of British India. 18. BUFO STOMATICUS, Liitken ; Boulenger, Ann. Mag. N. H. (6) vii. 1891, p. 463. The Indian Museum possesses examples of this Toad from Calcutta and Burma, which agree very well with the type in the British Museum. This species is probably not uncommon in Lower Bengal, but has hitherto been confounded with Bufo andersonii. 19. BUFO PARIETALIS, Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. p. 312. A Frog in the Indian Museum from Hongkong, received from the Hongkong Museum "in exchange, seems referable to this species, which has hitherto been got only in Malabar. It is just possible that a mistake has been made in the labelling; but if this is not the case, the distributional area of this species is considerably extended. 20. LEPTOBRACHIUM CARINENSE, Boulenger, Ann. Mus. Genova, (2) vii. 1889, p. 748; id. Rept. Ind. p. 511. An example of this species, procured very many years ago by Major Berdmore in Burma, and named Megalophrys montana by Blyth, is very interesting, in that it possesses vomerine teeth in two very nearly parallel lines between the choanae, and separated |
