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Records of the Indian Mitseum. 



[Vol. XX, 



Brown above ; loreal and temporal regions^ dorsal warts and 

 dorso-lateral folds darker ; a white streak along the upper lip ; 

 limbs with dark cross-bands. 



From snout to vent 46 millim. 



Habitat. Celebes. 



According to van Kampen, who has examined the type speci- 

 men, this species is ver^^ near R. varians, and he thinks it possible 

 that both may have to be united. The shorter hind limb and the 

 broad dorso-lateral fold are, I think, characters sufficient to maintain 

 the separation. 



Van Kampen also thinks that the specimen, of unknown 

 origin, which I have described in the Catalogue Batr. Ecaud., p. 70 

 (1882) and in the Proc. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 232, must belong to a 

 different species. Of this I am not convinced, as the specimen 

 agrees in most particulars with the above description, the differ- 

 ences not exceeding those distinguishing individuals in various 

 species of this group of Rana. These differences are :— Vomerine 

 teeth not extending posteriorly beyond the choange (equally dis- 

 tant from each other and from the latter) ; first finger not longer 

 than the second ; several large, prominent oval glands on the sides 

 below the dorso-lateral fold. The tibia is 3f times as long as broad. 



Measurements. 



From snout to vent 



Head 



Width of head 



Snout 



Eye 



Interorbital width 



Tympanum 



Fore limb 



First finger 



Second finger 



Third finger 



Fourth finger 



Hind hnib 



Tibia 



Foot 



Third toe 



Fourth toe 



Fifth loe 



45 miUim. 



17 

 16 



6 



6 



3 



4-5 

 27 



5 

 5 



4 

 74 



25 



19 



14 



The specimen is a male, with internal vocal sacs, strong fore 

 limbs, and an oval flat gland on the inner side of the arm. 



87. Rana garoensis, sp. n. 



Vomerine teeth in short oblique series between the choanae. 



Head longer than broad, much depressed ; snout pointed, 

 strongly projecting beyond the mouth, as long as the eye; canthus 

 rostralis strong; loreal region not very oblique, concave ; nostril 

 equidistant from the eye and from the tip of the snout ; distance 

 between the nostrils a little greater than the interorbital width, 

 which equals that of the upper eyelid; tympanum very distinct. 



