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Records of the Indian Mtiseum. 



[Vol. XX, 



Brown, pink, or grey above; a dark brown or black streak 

 below the canthus rostralis and a temporal blotch ; a whitish 

 streak along the upper lip ; some specimens with a pale vertebral line 

 and another along the upper surface of the tibia ; limbs with dark 

 cross-bands; hinder side .of thighs brown or fharbled with brown. 

 Lower parts white, throat and breast sometimes dark brown ; often 

 a blackish spot on each side of the breast. 



Males with internal vocal sacs; fore limb very strong, with a 

 moderately strong pad on the inner side of the first finger, covered, 

 during the breeding season, with a yellowish horny layer. 



Nasal bones narrow, oblique, widely separated from each other 

 and from the frontoparietals; ethmoid largely exposed above ; 

 extending to between the nasals. 



Eggs measuring i^ millim. in female 62 millim. long. 



Measnre))ients, in millimetres. 



1-7. Palawan (types). 8-9. Masarang, Celebes. 10-13. Batjan. 



Habitat. First described from Palawan, this species has since 

 been found in Luzon, in Celebes, and in Batjan, Halmaheira, and 

 Ternate. 



Our material shows the characters on which Barbour based his 

 distinction of R. moluccana from R. varians to be merely individual, 

 not geographical. vSome specimens from Palawan answer his defini- 

 tion of R. moluccana (shorter web, smaller tympanum). 



85. Rana alticola. 



Hyloraua tytleri (non Theob.), Stoliczka, Jouni. As. Soc. Beng. XXXIX, 



1870, p. 148, pi. ix, fig. I. 

 Hylorana pipieiis, Jerdon, Proc. As. Soc. Beiig. 1870, p. 83. 

 Rana alticola, Bouleng. Cat. Batr. Ecaiid. p. 52, fig. (1882) : .\nnand. Rec. 



Ind.Mus. \'III, 1912, p. 22, pi. iv, fig. i; Malcolm Smith, Joiirii. 



N.H. Soc. Slam. II, 1916, p. 167 ; Annand. Mem. As. Soc. Beng. VI, 



191 7, pp. 140, 144. 



