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similar spines may also be scattered on the palmar and plantar 

 surfaces. 



Nasals large and in contact with each other and with the 

 frontoparietals, which entirely cover the upper surface of the 

 ethmoid; zygomatic branch of squamosal short. Omosternal style 

 entire. Terminal phalanges slightly expanded at the end. 



Measurements, in millimetres, of the type specimens. 



From snout to vent 



Head 



Width of head 



Snout 



Eye 



Interorbital width 



Fore limb 



First finger 



Second finger . . 



Third finger 



Fourth finger . . 



Hind limb 



Tibia 



Foot 



Third toe 



Fourth toe 



Fifth toe 



Habitat. Yunnan at Tongchuan fu, where this large frog was 

 found in great numbers by Messrs. Graham and Dymond. The 

 types preserved in the British Museum. 



This and the following species are intermediate between R. 

 sternosignata and R. liebigii, but nearer the former. 



32, Rana spinosa. 



Rana kitldii, pari., Ciunlh., Cat. Batr. Sal. p. S (1S58), and Rept. Brit. 

 Ind. p. 404, pi. xxvi, fig. A (1864) ; Bouleng., Cat. Batr. Ecand. p. 20 

 (1882). 



Rana latrans (lion Steff.), David, N. Arch. Mus. VIII, 1872, Bull. p. 85, 

 and Joiirn. 3^' Voy. Emp. Chin. II, p. 250 (1875). 



Rana spinosa, David, op. cit. p. 253. 



Ranaboiilengeri, Giinth., Ann. and Mag. N.H. (6) I\', i88g, p. 222 ; Bou- 

 leng., Proc. Zool. Sac. 1899, p. 166. 



Vomerine teeth in small oblique groups commencing on a line 

 with and extending back beyond the level of the posterior borders 

 of the choanae. 



Head much broader than long, much depressed ; snout round- 

 ed, scarcely projecting beyond the mouth, as long as the eye; 

 canthus rostralis very obtuse ; loreal region very oblique, slightly 

 concave ; nostril nearer the eye than the end of the snout ; the 

 distance between the nostrils greater than the interorbital width; 

 which is a little less than that of the upper eyelid ; tympanum 

 hidden or very indistinct, J to f the diameter of the eye. 



Fingers feebly swollen at the tips, first longer than the second, 

 third longer than the snout ; subarticular tubercles moderately 

 large, moderately prominent. 



