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



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Greyish brown above, with more or less distinct darker spots or 

 marblings ; often a dark cross-bar between the eyes and a A-or W- 

 shaped marking between the shoulders ; dark vertical bars on the 

 •lips, two of which extend to the eye ; limbs with dark cross-bands. 

 Lower parts white, throat spotted with brown. 



Males with a vocal sac on each side, forming folds on the throat, 

 which bears a M-shaped black marking; fore limb very robust; 

 a strong pad on the inner side of the first finger. 



Nasal bones large, in contact with each other and with the 

 front o-parietals, which are narrow and flat; ethmoid not exposed; 

 zygomatic process of squamosal short. Omosternal style forked 

 at the base. Terminal phalanges obtusely pointed. 



Measurements in niillimetres. 



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 



Habitat. Malabar. 



Connects Rana with Tomopterna. 



49. Rana brcviccps. 



/?««« breviceps, Schneid., Hist. Amph. I, p. 140 (1799); Peters, Moii, 

 Berl. Ac. 1863, p. 76; Bouleng., Cat. Batr. Ecai'd. p. 32 (1882), and 

 Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 451 (1890); Ferguson, Journ. Bomb. N.H. Soc. 

 XV, 1904, p. 502, pi. B, fig. I. 



Rana variegata, Gravenh. Delia. Mits. Vratisl. p. 33, pi. viii, fig. i 

 (1829). 



PyxicepJialus fodiens, Jerd., Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XXd, 1S53, p. 534. 



Pyxicephaliis pluvialis, Jerd., I.e. 



Sphaerotlieca strigata, Giinth., Cat. Bair. Sal. p. 32, pi. ii, fig. A (1S58). 



Tomopterna delala>idii, part., Giinth., op. cit. p. 129. 



Tomopterna strigata, Giinth., Proc. Zool. Soc. i860, p. 165. 



Pyxiceplialiis breviceps, Gunih., Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 41 1 (1864); Theob., 

 Cat. Rept. As. Soc. Mas. p. 80 (1868); Anders.. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, 

 p. 200 : Murray, Zool. Sind, p. 399 (1884). 



Vomerine teeth in strong, short oblique series between the 

 choanae or extending a little beyond the level of their posterior 

 borders. 



