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sometimes present on each side of the anterior part of the back ; a 

 strong glandular fold above the tympanum. Lower parts smooth. 



Dark olive or brown above, uniform or with rather indistinct 

 darker spots, sometimes with vertical bars on the upper lip and 

 cross-bars on the limbs. Lower parts white or brownish, uniform 

 or spotted with dark brown. 



Males with a large external vocal sac on each side of the 

 throat in front of the fore limb. 



Nasals ver}- large, in contact with each other and with the 

 frontoparietals ; upper surface of ethmoid covered ; zygomatic 

 branch of squamosal rather long. Terminal phalanges with feeble 

 transverse distal expansion. 



Measurements in millimetres. 



I. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. II. 12. 13. 



From snout to vent . . 165 167 123 98 85 220 215 213 217 132 98 99 80 



Head .. •• 57 58 48 35 32 70 71 7^ 73 46 35 37 3° 



Width of head. . .. 68 69 52 39 35 83 83 85 84 55 40 40 32 



Snout .. .. 23 25 20 14 13 30 27 27 28 20 15 15 13 



Eye .. .. 18 19 15 10 10 20 19 19 19 14 II 12 10 



Interorbital width .. 15 15 11 8 7 17 17 18 18 12 7 8 6 



Tympanum .. ..6754488895444 



Fore limb .. •• 95 99 71 58 52 118 113 117 113 80 57 56 49 



First finger .. .. 23 22 16 13 12 27 27 28 27 18 13 12 11 



Second finger .. .. 19 19 13 11 11 23 22 25 23 17 12 11 10 



Third finger .. .. 26 26 20 15 14 30 28 30 29 22 15 15 14 



Fourth finger .. .. 19 21 15 11 11 25 22 23 22 16 11 12 10 



Hind limb .. .. 287 272 205 152 144 325 315 320 312 210 150 164 128 



Tibia . . .. 91 86 68 50 45 103 100 too 100 66 49 52 41 



Foot . . .. 93 86 68 50 45 103 100 100 loi 70 49 52 41 



Third toe . . .. 40 39 31 22 22 45 42 47 44 37 20 25 20 



Fourth toe .. •• 59 55 44 35 33 64 62 65 68 46 31 35 29 



Fifth toe .. .. 37 35 28 22 19 34 33 37 35 25 18 33 17 



I. Shortland Id. (type). 2 — 3. Faro Id. 4 — 10. Guadalcanar Id. 11. Riib- 

 iana Id., 12 — 13. Isabel Id. 



One of the largest species of the genus. 



Habitat. vSolomon Islands (Faro, Shortland, New Georgia, 

 Guadalcanar, Rubiana, and Isabel Islands). 



56. Rana beddomii. 



Polypedates beddomii, Giinth., Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 571, pi. Ixiii, 



fig. B. 

 Polypedates bracJiy tarsus, Giinth., t. c. p. 572. 



Raiia beddomii, Bouleng., Cat. Batr. Ecatid. pp. 55 and 461 (1882), and 

 - Fau7i. hid., Rept. p 453 (1890) ; Annand., Rec. Ind. Mus. XV. 1918. 



p. 18, pi. i, fig. 4. 



Vomerine teeth in short, transverse or feebly oblique series 

 on a level with the posterior borders of the choanae or just behind 

 the latter, the space between the two series usually equal to 

 or greater than the length of one of them. Tongue with a long 

 pointed papilla in the middle. 



Head much depressed, as long as broad or a little broader 

 than long ; snout rounded or obtusely pointed, feebly projecting 



