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tubercle. The hind limb being carried forwards along the body, the 

 tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the tip of the snout, or somewhat 

 beyond. Skin with narrow, interrupted glandular folds along the 

 back. Light brown above, with rounded, sometimes confluent dark 

 brown spots : sometimes a light vertebral line or a broad unspotted 

 zone along the middle of the back ; a dark temporal spot ; beneath 

 immaculate. Male with two internal vocal sacs. 

 S. Africa. 



a-c. 2 & jg. 

 d-h. 2. 

 i-k. ?. 

 l-m. (S . 



South Africa. 

 South Afiica. 

 Cape of Good Hope. 

 Kaflraria. 



Sir A. Smith fP.]. 

 Sir A. Smith [P.l. 

 F. P. M. Weale, Esq. [P.]. 



71. Eana fasciata. 



Rana fasciata, Giinth. Cat. p. 20. 

 Strongylopus fasciatus, (^Boie) Tschudi, Batr. p. 79 ; Stehid. Kovara, 



Amph. p. 21. 

 Rana fasciata, Dum. Sf Bihr. p. 389 ; Smith, HI. S. Afr., Rept. pi. 78. 



f. 1. 



delalandii, Bell, Zool. Beagle, Rept. p. 31, pi. 16. f 1. 



Strongylopus oxyrhynchus, Fitziny. Sitzh. Ac. Wien, xlii. p. 414. 



Vomerine teeth in two long, nearly straight series, transversely on 

 a level with the front edge of the choanae. Head moderate ; snout 

 long, rather pointed ; interorbital space as broad as the upper 

 eyelid; tympanum distinct, half the size of the eye. Fingers 

 slender, first not extending be3-ond second ; toes very slender, 

 fourth at least as long as the distance between vent and tympanum, 

 webbed at the base ; subarticular tubercles of fingers and toes 

 moderate ; inner metatarsal tubercle small, oval, little prominent ; 

 no outer tubercle. The hind limb being carried forwards along the 

 body, the tibio-tarsal articulation reaches much beyond the tip of 

 the snout. Skin of the back with rather indistinct longitudinal 

 folds. Light brown above, with four or six longitudinal dark 

 brown stripes on the back ; a dark temporal spot ; beneath im- 

 maculate. Male with two internal vocal sacs. 



S. Africa. 



a. 2. 



h, c. Several spec. : 



d,?,&yg. 



S. Africa. C. Darwin, Esq. [P.]. (Ori- 



gioal specimen of Prof BeU's 

 description and figure.) 



S. Africa. Sir A. Smith [P.]. 



Kaffi-aria. F. P. M. Weale, Esq. [P.]. 



72. Rana macrodactyla. 



Hylarana macrodactyla, Giinth. Cat. p. 72, pi. ii. f. C. 

 Hylorana macrodactyla, Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 424; Stoliczka, 

 Froc. As. Soc. 1872, p. 104. 



