AMPHIBIA.
ANURA.
B a n i d æ .
Genus B a n a , Auct.
B a n a t ig r in a , Daud.
Rana tigrina, Daud., Hist. Rept., 1803, vol. viii, p. 12.5; Hist, des. Rainettes, &c., 1803, p. 64,
pi. xx ; Merrem, Tent. Syst.' Amph., 1820, p. 174; Dum. & Bibr., Erpét. Gèni., vol. viii, 1841,
p. 375 ; Cantor, Journ. As.,Soc., Bengal, 1847, voL xvi, p. 1060 ; Kelaart, Prod. Journ.-. Zool.,
1852, p ..192; Jerdon,. Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xxii, 1853,p, 531 ; Günther, Cat. Batr. Sal.,
1858, p. 9 ; Rept. Brit. Ind., 1864, p. 407 ; Peters, Monats. Beri. Akad., 1868, p. 77 ; Steind.,
Rept. Reise Novara, 1867, p. 18, pi. i, figs. 14-17 ; Theobald, Journ. As. Soc., Bengal,
vol. xxxvii, 1868, p. 7 9 ; Stoliczka, Proc. As.. Soc., Bengal, 1872, pp.. 85-102; Journ. As.
Soc., Bengal, 1878, vol. xlii, p. 112 ; Ferguson, Rept. Fauna, Ceylon, 1877, p. 26.
Rana mugiens, Daud., Rainettes, &c., 1803, pi. xxiii (not descr.) ; Latr. Rept., 1801, vol. ii, p. 153
(in part). •
Rana pietà, Gravenh., Delie. Mus. Zool. Vratislav. (Batr.),. 1829, p. 89.
Rana cancrivora, Gravenh., Delie. Mus. Zool. Vratislav. (Batr.), 1829, p. 41 ; Tschudi, Classif. Batr.
Mém. Soc. Sc.,Nat. Neuchat., vol. ii, 1889, p. 79.'
Rana brama, Lesson, Zool. du Voy. de Bélanger, Rept., 1834, p. 329, pi. vi.
Rana rugulosa, Weigm., Nov.- Act. Acad. C. Leop., vol. xvii, 1885, p. 255, pi. xxi, fig. 1.
Rana vittigera, Weigm., Nov. Act. Acad. C. Leop., vol. xvii, 1835, p. 258, pi. xxi, fig. 2.
The specimens of this frog which were collected in Hotha have the limbs slightly
shorter than the length of the body, which is in reverse proportion to what prevails
in Indian individuals. But in all other characters they conform.
The males during the breeding season are pale greenish-yellow with dark spots
and a pale vertebral streak, and are smaller than the females which are greyish-olive
with dark spots.
This species has a very wide distribution, extending from China and the Malayan
Peninsula through Burma, India, Çeylon and the lower or outlying ranges of the
Himalayas as far west as the Indus.
Bana ftjsca, Blyth.
Rana fusca, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xxxiv, pp. 719-720; Günther, Rept. Brit.
Ind., 1864, p. 408; Theobald, Cat. Rept. As. Soc. Mus., 1868; p. 79; Günther, Proc. Zool.
Soc., 1868, .p. 478.; Anderson, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1871, p. 197; Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc.,
Bengal, vol. xlii (1878), p. 115.