426 BATRACHIA. 



fingers and toes scarcely dilated into disks. Fingers long : the first a little shorter than the 

 fourtli, and both longer than the second. The length of the body equals the distance 

 between vent and heel ; toes rather long, the length of the fourth being somewhat more than 

 one-half of that of the body ; the interdigital membrane does not extend to the last phalanx 

 of the fifth and third toes ; metatarsus with two tubercles, the one at the base of the first toe 

 being the larger and rather elongate. Skin smooth : a narrow glandular fold runs from the 

 hinder angle of the orbit along each side of the back; a second commences between the 

 tympanum and the angle of the mouth ; it is interrupted above the humeral joint, and con- 

 tinued along each side of the belly. Greenish- or reddish-olive above, with an irregular series 

 of more or less confluent brown spots along the vertebral line ; the series bifurcates at the 

 base of the caudal vertebra. The dorsal glandular fold is greenish, with a black inferior 

 border, which is continued along the canthus rostralis. A white streak along the upper lip 

 and along the lateral fold. Sides of the body between the two glandular folds brown, marbled 

 with darker ; lower parts whitish, throat sometimes marbled with brown ; an oblique brown 

 streak on the humeral joint. Hind limbs spotted and reticulated with black. 



This species appears to be limited to Ceylon ; it attains to a length of 2^ inches, the hind 

 limb being 4|- inches long, and the fourth toe 1^ inch. The male has a small external vocal 

 sac of brown colour below each corner of the mouth. 



Htlorana malabarica. 



? Rana sauguineo-maculata, Less, in Belang. Voy. Ind. Orient. Zool. p. 328, Rept. pi. 5. fig. 2. 

 Rana malabarica, Duin. ^- Bibr. viii. p. 365. pi. 8G. figs. 1 & 1 a. 



Moderately slender in habit. Head somewhat elongate, with the snout not much pointed, 

 and with distinct canthus rostralis. Eye of moderate size, as large in circumference as the 

 tympanum. Tips of the fingers and toes scarcely dilated into disks. The hind limb, if laid 

 forwards, surpasses the snout by the length of the toes ; interdigital membrane short ; the 

 fourth toe is one-half longer than the third and fiftli. Skin smooth : a glandular fold runs 

 from the hinder angle of the orbit along each side of the back ; a second commences between 

 the tympanum and the angle of the mouth, but it is not stated whether it is continued along 

 the side of the belly or not. Brick-red above during life ; a black band commences at the 

 nostril and, passing through the eye and tympanum, is continued to the lorn ; it is spotted 

 with white on the sides of the body. Upper lip with a white band. Limbs black, variegated 

 with whitish and reddish. 



This species is found on the coast of Malabar; one specimen is 2 inches 10 lines long, the 

 hind limb having a length of 4 inches. 



Mr. Jerdon (Joxirn. As. Soc. Beng. xxii. p. 532) meutious a species, which he calls Rana curtipes, from 

 forests of the Peninsula of India. Mr. Walter Elliot has a coloured drawing of this frog, and I see from 

 it that it belongs to Hylorana, and that it is very closely allied to, if it differ from, H. malabarica. 



