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num often reddish ; limbs without or with ver3^ indistinct dark 

 cross-bands. Whitish beneath, throat and breast usuall}^ spotted 

 or marbled with dark brown. 



Males with an external vocal sac on each side of the throat 

 and a large oval gland on the inner side of the arm ; a moderately 

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

 breeding season, with a velvety greyish horny layer. 



Nasal bones small, oblique, widely separated from each other 

 and from the frontoparietals ; ethmoid largely exposed above, 

 extending to the anterior borders of the nasals ; zygomatic pro- 

 cess of squamosal longer than the posterior. 



Measurements, in millimetres. 



1-2. Mimika R., Dutch New Guinea. 3-5. Soghere, Brit. New Guinea (types 

 of R. macrosoelis). 6. Soghere District. 7-10. Haveri, Brit. New Guinea. 11. 

 Albert Edward Range, B.N. G. 12. Madew, B.N.G. 13. Astrolabe Mts., B.N.G. 



Habitat. New Guinea, Waigeou and Aru Islands. 



In this and the lo following species, I regard the absence of 

 the dorso-lateral glandular fold as secondary, these species being, in 

 my opinion, derived from the Ranae typicae group of the subgenus 

 Rana. 



90. Rana andersonii. 



Polvpedates yiiniiaiieusis, Anders. Aiiaf. Zool. Res. Vkidi. p. S46, pi. 



" Ixxviii, fig. 3 (1S79). 

 Rana andersonii, Bouleng. Cat. Batr. Ecaud. p. 55 (1S82), Faun. Ind.. 

 Rept. p. 447 (1890), and Proc. Zool. Soc. 1899, pp. 16S and 960. 



Vomerine teeth in transverse or slightly oblique series between 

 the choanse or extending a little beyond the level of the posterior 

 borders of the latter. 



Head as long as broad or slightly broader than long, much 

 depressed; snout rounded or obtusely pointed, feebly projecting 

 beyond the mouth, as long as the eye or a little shorter ; canthus 

 rostralis obtuse; loreal region feebly oblique, concave; nostril 

 equidistant from the eye and from the tip of the snout or a little 

 nearer the former ; the distance between the nostrils equals or a 



