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the anterior corners of the eyes. Color (in alcohol) above pale 

 drab/ with a few distinct and irregular small dusky spots between 

 eyes, on the middle of the back and along the outer edge of the 

 dorso-lateral fold; a distinct dark brown line from tip of snout 

 through nostril to eye, the upper edge being sharply defined, the 

 lower fading' gradually into the loreal region; from eye to shoulder a 

 large, sharply defined ol^long spot of dark brown covering the tym- 

 panum; upper and lower lips marbled brown and whitish; pale 

 indications of the usual mark on the upper arm as well as cross- 

 bars on fore and hind limbs; an ill-defined brown line along outer 

 aspect of femur and tibia, underside of tarsus, and fifth toe. 



DimensioJis. 



mm. 



From snout to vent 52 



From snout to posterior edge of tympanum 17 



From snout to corner of mouth 16.5 



Width of head 15 



Diameter of eye 4. 5 



Width of upper eyelid 3 



Interorbital width 4 



From eye to nostril 4.7 



From eye to end of snout 8 



Diameter of tympanum 3 



From eye to tympanum 2 



Fore limb ., 34 



Elbow to tip of longest finger 24 



Hind limb 105 



Thigh 29 



Tibia 30 



Metatarsal tubercle 1.5 



Habitat. — This species is only known from Formosa, Mr. T. Tada 

 having collected a single specimen at Taipa, September, 1S96. 



List of specimens of Rana longicrns. 



a Type; description, p. 104; figs. 81-83. 



RANA HOLSTI6 Boulenger. 



1892. Rana holsti Boulenger, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), X, October. 1892. p. 302 

 (type-locality, Okinawa shima, Riu Kiu; type, Brit. Mus. No. 92.9.3.19; 

 Hoist, collector).— Fritze, Zool. Jahrb. Syst., VII, 1894, p. 865; author's 

 separate, p. 16. 



aRidgway, Nomencl. Col., Plate III, fig. 18. 



b For the late Mr. P. A. Hoist, who collected the type. 



