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Records of the Indian Museum. 



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oval, very prominent, J the length of the inner toe ; outer tubercle 

 barely indicated or absent. 



Skin smooth, or with a few irregular tubercles on the sacrum ; 

 a narrow glandular dorso-lateral fold from above the tympanum 

 to the hip, parallel with its fellow or converging towards it behind 

 the tympanum, the distance between the two, on the back, 5 1 to 

 6-| times in the length from snout to vent. 



Pale brown above, uniform or with a dark bar between the 

 eyes and small dark spots on the back and along the outer edge 

 of the dorso-lateral fold ; a dark brown streak from the tip of the 

 snout to the e3'e and a large dark brown temporal spot with a 

 light streak below it not extending beyond the ej^e ; limbs with 

 more or less distinct narrow dark cross-bars. Lower parts white, 



Male unknown. 



Measurements in millimetres. 



From snout to vent 



Head 



Width of head 



Snout 



Eye 



Interorbital width 



Tympanum 



Fore limb 



First finger 



Second finger 



Third finger 



Fourth finger 



Hind limb 



Tibia 



Foot 



Third toe 



Fourth toe 



Fifth toe 



I — 2. Formosa ? 3. Ching Fung L,in, Fokien, 1500 ft. 



Habitat. Formosa ^ and China (Fokien). 



Very closely allied to R. japonica. Distinguished by the 

 narrower head, the less oblique loreal region and, usually, by the 

 broader interorbital space and the longer, more slender limbs. 

 I am not sure that the smaller specimen from Shanghai mentioned 

 by Werner, Abh. Ba^^er. Ak. xxii. 1903, p. 358, does not belong to 

 R. longicrus rather than to R. japonica. 



45. Rana lateralis* 



Rana lateralis, Bouleng., Ann. Miis. Genova (2) V, 1887, p. 483, pi. viii. 

 fig. 2, and Faiin. Ind., Rept. p. 457 (1890) ; Malcolm Smith, Joiirn. 

 N.H. Soc. Siam, II, 1917, p. 266, pi. — , fig. i. 



1 The type is from Taipa, Formosa. Two specimens, labelled China, Swinhoe, 

 in the British Museum, are probably from Formosa, where R.Swinhoe made large 

 collections. 



