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Skin smooth or finely shagreened above ; a very narrow glan- 

 dular dorso-lateral fold, from above the tympanum to the groin ; 

 the distance between the folds, on the back, \ to I the length of 

 head and bod}'. Lower parts smooth. 



Pale grey or greyish brown above, uniform or with small 

 brown or black spots; a more or less distinct dark bar between the 

 eyes ; sometimes a dark a between the shoulders ; a dark brown 

 or black canthal streak and a large temporal spot of the same 

 colour involving the tympanum ; limbs with dark cross-bars. 

 Lower parts white, throat and breast closely spotted or marbled 

 with grey or brown. 



Male unknown. 



Nasal bones rather small, oblique, separated from each other 

 and from the frontoparietals, which do not cover the ethmoid in 

 front. 



Measurements of types, in millimetres. 



Habitat. Kanshirei Village, Formosa, about 2,000 feet. 

 But for the less oblique loreal region and the dilated toes, 

 this species resembles strikingly R. japonic a. 



72. Rana nigrovittata. 



Limnodytes nigrovittattis, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XXIV, 1855, 



p. 718. 

 Rana nigrovittata, part., W. Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 345. 

 Rana nigi'ovittata, Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Genova {2), XIII, 1893, P- 334; 



and Ann. and Mag. N.H. (7), XII, 1903, p. 186; S. Flower, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. 1899, p. 896; Bouleng. Faun. Mai. Pen., Rept. p. 242 



(1913) ; Annand. Mem. As. Soc. Beng. VI, 1917, pp. 140, I44' 



Vomerine teeth in oblique groups or short series on a level 

 with or just behind the posterior borders of the choanse, equally 

 distant from each other and from the latter, or nearer each other. 



Head as long as broad, much depressed ; snout rounded or 

 obtusely pointed, more or less projecting beyond the mouth, as 

 long as the eye ; canthus rostralis distinct ; loreal region feebly 

 oblique or nearly vertical, deeply concave ; nostril equally distant 

 from the eye and from the end of the snout or a little nearer the 



