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Records of the Indian Museum. 



[Vol.. XX, 



below the eye to the groin, sometimes broken up on the body. 

 Lower parts smooth. 



Pale brown above, sides of head and body dark brown ; some 

 dark brown or black spots on the middle of the back, sometimes 

 confluent into a vertebral band bifurcating on the sacral region ; 

 dorso-lateral glandular folds pale brown or whitish, edged with a 

 black streak which extends to the tip of the snout ; tympanum 

 often reddish brown ; upper lip and lateral glandular fold white ; no 

 dark cross-bars on the limbs, but sometimes a blackish streak along 

 the outer side of the tibia ; hinder side of thighs marbled black and 

 white. Lower parts white, sometimes spotted with brown on the 

 throat. 



Males with not much developed external vocal sacs below 

 the angles of the mouth. 



Nasal bones small and narrow, separated from each other and 

 from the frontoparietals ; ethmoid largely exposed above, pointed 

 and produced between the nasals ; zygomatic branch of squamosal 

 not longer than the posterior. Terminal phalanges feebly expand- 

 ed at the end. 



Eggs small, li 



I millim. in diameter. 



Measurements, in millimetres. 



From snout to vent 



Head 



Width of headj 



Snout 



Bye 



Interorbital width 



Tympanum 



Fore limb 



First finger 



Second finger 



Third finger 



Fourth finger 



Hind limb 



Tibia 



Foot 



Third toe 



Fourth toe 



Fifth toe 



x-4. Ceylon. 5. Diyatalawa, Ceylon. 



Habitat. Ceylon. 



70. Rana clberti. 



Rana elberti, Roux, Zool. Jdirb., Syst. XXX, 191 1, p. 504. 



Vomerine teeth in oblique groups between the choanae and ex- 

 tending somewhat beyond the level of their posterior borders, 

 nearer to each other than to the latter. 



Head as long as broad, less depressed than in R. varians ; snout 

 truncate, feebly projecting beyond the lower jaw, as long as the 

 eye ; canthus rostralis rounded ; loreal region vertical, feebly con- 

 cave ; nostril nearer the tip of the snout than the eye ; interorbital 



