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Records of the Indian Museum. 



[Vol. XX, 



67. Rana cubitalis. 



Raua ciibifalis, Malcohn Smith, Joitni. N.H.Soc. Siaiii, II, lyi/, p- 277. 



Vomerine teeth in two short, slightly oblique series just behind 

 the level of the choanse, equally distant from them and from each 

 other. 



Head much depressed, as long as broad; snout obtusely 

 pointed, strongly projecting beyond the mouth, a little longer than 

 the eye ; canthus rostralis strong ; loreal region oblique, deeply 

 concave; nostril equally distant from the eye and from the tip 

 of the snout; distance between the nostrils greater than the 

 interorbital width, which is a little less than that of the upper 

 eyelid ; tympanum very distinct, nearly as large as the eye and 

 close to it. 



Fingers rather slender, merely swollen at the end, first much 

 longer than the second, third longer than the snout; subarticular 

 tubercles moderately large, very prominent. 



Hind limb long, the tibio-tarsal articulation reaching a little 

 beyond thp tip of the snout, the heels strongl}' overlapping when 

 the limbs are folded at right angles to the body ; tibia 4I times 

 as long as broad, if times in length from snout to vent, as long 

 as the fore limb, longer than the foot. Toes moderatel}^ long, 

 the tips dilated into small discs which are a little longer than 

 broad, with a feeble groove between the upper and lower surface, 

 extensively webbed, the membrane reaching the discs of the third 

 and fifth but reduced to a narrow fringe on the penultimate 

 phalanx of the fourth and separating the outer metatarsals down 

 to their basal fourth ; subarticular tubercles moderately large, 

 very prominent; no tarsal fold; inner metatarsal tubercle elliptic, 

 I the length of the first toe ; a prominent outer tubercle. 



