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slightly narrower than the upper eyelids; canthiis rostralis rather 

 abruptly bent; lores concave; tympanum one-half the diameter of 

 the eye; fingers free, first extending slightly beyond second; disks 

 distinct, but small, on third and fourth finger largest, less than half 

 the diameter of tympanum; toes moderately webbed, the two ter- 

 minal phalanges of fourth toe being free and the excision reaching 

 to the terminal third of the basal phalanx of that toe; disks well 

 developed but small, slightly smaller than those of the fingers; sub- 

 articular tubercles very prominent; inner metatarsal tubercle oval, 

 not prominent, small, contained about two and a half times in length 



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Figs. 99-103.— Rana ijim.^. Nat. size. 99, top of head; 100, side of head; 101, open mouth; 102, 

 UNDERSIDE of hand; 103, underside of foot. No. 19 (914) Sci. Coll. Tokyo. 



of first toe, measured from the anterior border of the tubercle; a 

 distinct outer metatarsal tubercle at the base of fourth toe; no outer 

 dermal fringe on fifth toe, nor a tarsal fold; tibio-tarsal articulations 

 r<iach considerably beyond tip of snout when hind legs are stretched 

 forward, and overlap by as much as the length of the snout when 

 folded legs are placed at right angles to axis of body; tibia more than 

 one-half the total length of head and body; skin above obscurely 

 shagreened, with a few scattered pustules (m the back and numerous 

 ones on the flanks; sides of face and neck and upper side of tibia 

 with numerous white-tipped, pointed asperities, which also stud the 



