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related to the group to which Rana similis, R. grandocula, and 
R. glandulosa belong. It differs in having smaller eyes and a 
shorter snout and in the absence of a papilla on the tongue and 
of the arm gland. 
Rana moellendorfi Boettger. Plate 1, fig. 4. 
Rana moellendorfii BorETtcER, Zoot. Anz. 16 (1893) 363. 
Description of species —(From No. 1482, Bureau of Science 
collection; collected in northern Palawan, P. I, May 10, 1918, 
by E. H. Taylor.) Vomerine teeth in two small, rounded, oblique 
series, very much nearer to each other than to the choanz, ex- 
tending behind posterior level of choanze; tongue rather oval, 
small, with the two “horns” at the posterior corners, which are 
rather widely separated at their bases; no papilla; males with vo- 
eal sacs, the internal openings small; head somewhat longer than 
broad, not concave; snout obtusely pointed; eyes not especially 
prominent; interorbital area nearly one and a half times upper 
eyelid; diameter of eye only slightly less than length of snout; 
canthus rostralis rather rounded; lores nearly vertical, with a dis- 
tinct longitudinal groove behind nostril; distance from nostril to 
end of snout less than its distance from eye; tympanum very dis- 
tinct, little more than half diameter of eye, separated from eye by 
a distance less than one-third its diameter; skin smooth or finely 
shagreened above, indistinctly granulate on posterior part of eye- 
lids and on sides; skin smooth below save on ventral surface of 
thigh; no dorsolateral fold; no fold or only a very indistinct one 
from eye above tympanum; a distinct gland on upper part of arm; 
fingers slender, with very slight longitudinal oval pads, scarcely 
wider than fingers; first finger slightly longer than second, fourth 
longer than first or second, reaching base of disk of third; toes 
three-fourths webbed, the webs nowhere reaching base of toe 
disks, which are as large as finger disks; subarticular tubercles 
well developed; inner metatarsal tubercle elongate, oval, outer 
smaller, rounded; hind leg brought forward, tibiotarsal articu- 
lation reaches somewhat beyond eye. 
Color in life-—Above yellowish to bronze green; the entire 
‘back, head, and sides covered with large, usually elongate black 
spots, which frequently join each other, forming islandlike de- 
signs; asblack loreal streak, below which is a yellow-green line; 
below this a short dark stripe on edge of lip; tympanum dark 
brown; dark spots on breast at insertion of arms; arm spotted 
with black above and a broken dark line on posterior side; 
