1920.] G. A, BouLENGER : Frogs of the Genus Rana. 83 



verse dark bands ; front and hinder side of both limbs, involving 

 the fingers and toes, very distinctly variegated with black; lower 

 lip spotted with black ; chin and breast dusky, rest of lower side 

 yellowish white. 



From snout to vent 57 millim. 



The type specimen was procured by Stoliczka at Murree, Punj- 

 ab, Western Himalayas, altitude 6000 feet. The second specimen 

 from near vSimla, mentioned by Sclater, is now in the British Mu- 

 seum, and has been dealt with under R. liebigii. 



38. Rana blanfordii. 



Rana blanfordii, Bouleng., Cat. Batr, Ecaud. p. 23, pi. i, fig. 2 (1882), and 

 Ann. and Mag, N.H. (7) XVI, 1905, p. 640; Annand., Rec. Ind. 

 Mus. Ill, IQ09, p. 283, and Mem. As. Soc. Beng. VI, 1917, p. 139. 



Rana vicina (non Stol.), Bouleng-., Rec. Ind. Miis, I, 1907, p. 150 ; Annand., 

 Rec. Ind. Mus. II, 1908, p. 346. 



Vomerine teeth in feeble groups or oblique series between the 

 choanae and extending beyond the level of their posterior borders. 



Head a little broader than long, rather strongly depressed ; 

 snout rounded, scarcely projecting beyond the mouth, as long as 

 the e3^e ; canthus rostralis obtuse ; loreal region oblique, concave ; 

 nostril a little nearer the eye than the end of the snout ; the dis- 

 tance between the nostrils greater than the interorbital width, 

 which equals or is a little less than that of the upper eyelid ; tym- 

 panum rather distinct or very indistinct, about |- the diameter of 

 the eye, only a little longer than its distance from the latter. 



Fingers obtuse, first shorter than the second, third longer than 

 the snout ; subarticular tubercles moderately large, very promi- 

 nent. 



Hind limb rather long, the tibio-tarsal articulation reaching 

 the nostril or the tip of the snout, the heels strongly overlapping 

 when the limbs are folded at right angles to the body ; tibia 3^ to 4 

 times as long as broad, twice in length from snout to vent or a 

 little more or a little less, as long as or a little longer than the foot, 

 shorter than the fore limb. Toes with the tips swollen into small 

 discs,! to I w^ebbed, the web deeply emarginate and extending only 

 as a fringe to the tip of the fourth ; outer metatarsals separated 

 nearly to the base ; subarticular tubercles moderately large, moder- 

 ately prominent ; no tarsal fold ; inner metatarsal tubercle narrow, 

 feebly prominent, about half the length of the inner toe ; no outer 

 metatarsal tubercle. 



Skin smooth above or with small granules and elongate flat 

 glands ; a glandular fold from the eye to the shoulder ; lower parts 

 smooth. 



Olive above, with small blackish spots which may have a 

 light centre ; a blackish cross-bar between the e^^es and a blackish 

 streak on the canthus rostralis and on the temporal region ; limbs 

 with interrupted dark cross-bars. Lower parts white, throat of 

 male brownish or marbled with brown. According to Annandale 



