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l^rown cross-bands. Lower parts white, uniform or spotted or 

 mottled with brown on the throat and breast. 



Males with internal vocal sacs, with the fore limb strong and a 

 large flat gland on the inner side of the arm ; a strong pad on the 

 inner side of the first finger, covered during the breeding season 

 with a greyish brown velvet-like horny layer. 



Nasal bones narrow, widely separated from each other and 

 from the frontoparietals ; ethmoid largely exposed above, truncate 

 or rounded in front, not extending to between the nasals. Termi- 

 nal phalanges with short transverse distal expansion. 



Measurements, in millimetres. 



1-4. Ceylon (types). 5-7. Punduloya, Ceylon. 8. Piermerd, Travancore. 9-15. Bolumputty 

 Anamalis. 16-17. Malabar. 



Habitat. Malabar and Ceylon. 



This frog should perhaps be regarded as a variety of the 

 African R. albilabris, Hallow. 



[This species is found chiefly at the edge of rocky streams at 

 no great altitude. It sits exposed on flat rocks and stones and 

 leaps, often for a considerable distance, into the water when dis- 

 turbed. N. A.] 



82. Rana florensis. 



Ranafloyensis, Bouleng. Ann. and Mag. N.H. (6) XIX, 1897, p. 508. 



Vomerine teeth in short oblique groups between the choanae, 

 nearer to the latter than to each other. 



Head as long as broad or a little longer than broad, much 

 depressed; snout truncate and projecting beyond the mouth, as 

 l(nig as the eye or a little longer ; canthus rostralis strong ; loreal 

 region nearl}- vertical, deeply concave ; nostril nearer the tip of 

 the snout than the eye ; distance between the nostrils equal to the 

 interorbital width or the width of the upper eyelid ; tympanum 

 very distinct, f to f the diameter of the eye and 3 to 5 times its 

 distance from the latter. 



