456 EANID^E. 



snout or beyond. Skin smooth ; a narrow glandular lateral fold. 

 Brown above, usually with darker spots ; sides dark brown, or 

 closely spotted with dark brown ; upper lip and lateral fold 

 whitish ; usually a light vertebral line ; limbs with transverse dark 

 brown spots, which do not range across, being interrupted on the 

 upper surface ; one or two dark brown lines along the back of the 

 thighs ; lower surfaces white. 



From snout to vent 1*5 inches. 



Hob. Burma and Southern China. 



29. Rana gracilis. 



Rana gracilis, Gravenh. Delic. Mus. Zool. Vratisl. p. 45, pi. viii, 



fig. 3. 



Lymnodytes inacularius, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxiii, 1854, p. 290. 

 Ilylorana luacularia, Gunth. Sept. B. I. p. 425, pi. xxvi, fig. C. 

 Rana macularia, Bouleng. Cat. Batr. Sal. p. GO. 



Vomerine teeth in two oblique groups between the choanae. 

 Head depressed, longer than broad ; snout long, subacuminate, 

 prominent ; loreal region nearly vertical, concave ; nostril much 

 nearer to the end of the snout than to the eye ; interorbital space 

 broader than the upper eyelid ; tympanum very distinct, nearly as 

 large as the eye. Fingers slender, first extending beyond second ; 

 toes slender, rather more than half webbed ; tips of fingers and 

 toes slightly swollen, or dilated into very small disks ; subarticular 

 tubercles well developed : inner metatarsal tubercle small, oval ; 

 a rather large outer tubercle ; no tarsal fold. The tibio-tarsal 

 articulation reaches the nostril or the tip of the snout. Skin 

 smooth ; a rather broad glandular lateral fold ; a short glandular 

 fold from beneath the eye to the shoulder, followed by a series of 

 more or less confluent glandules, simulating a second glandular 

 fold. Brown above, sides of head and body darker ; some dark 

 spots on the middle of the back, sometimes confluent into a 

 vertebral band ; upper lip and lower glandular fold white, hinder 

 side of thighs marbled blackish and white ; beneath white, im- 

 maculate or brown-spotted on the throat. Male with two not 

 much developed external vocal sacs below the angle of the mouth. 



From snout to vent 2-5 inches. 



Hob. Ceylon. 



30. Rana malabarica. 



Rana malabarica, Dum. fy Bibr. Erp. Gen. viii, p. 365, pi. Lxxxvi, 



fig. 1 ; Bvuleng. Cat. Batr. Sal. p. 60. 

 Hylorana malabarica, Gunth. Kept. B. I. p. 426. 



Vomerine teeth in two oval oblique groups between the choanae. 

 Head moderate, depressed ; snout moderate, hardly as long as the 

 diameter of the orbit, subacuminate, moderately prominent ; loreal 



