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Habitat. Kuatun Mountains in the N.-W. of the Chinese 

 Province of Fokien (3,000-4,000 feet), and Man Son Mountains, 

 Tonkin (3,000-4,000 ft.), near the Chinese Province of Kwangsi. 



121. Rana latopalmata. 



Polypedntes ? tnarmoratiis, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XXIV, 185S. 



p. 188; Anders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1S71, p. 209; Stoliczka, P roc. As. 



Soc. Beng. 1872. p. 108; Anders. Anat. ZooJ. Pes. Ynnn. p. 842 



(1879). 

 Polypedates afghana, Giinth. Cat. Batr. Sal. p. 81 ; 1S58), and Rept. Brit. 



I lid. p 432 (1864). 

 Amolops afghamts, Cope, Nat. Hist. Rev. 1865, p. 117. 

 .' Ixalits kakhienensis, Anders. Anat. Zool. Res. Vuiin. p. 845, pi. Ixxviii, 



fig. 6. 

 Rana afghaiia, Bouleng. Cat. Batr. Ecaiid. p. 69 I 1882), and Ann. Mtts. 



Geneva, (2) V, 1887, p. 420; Annand. Rec. hid. Mas. VIII, 1912, 



p. 24, pi. iv, fig. 3. 

 Rana latopalmata, Bouleng. Cat. p. 464, Fann. Ind.. Rept. p. 462 (18901, 



Ann. Mus. Genova (2) XIII, 1893, p. 337, and Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, 



p. 526, pi. xliii, fig. 3. 

 I.xalus argus, Annand. Rec. Ind. Mas. \'III,' 191 2, p. 16, pi. iii, fig, 3. 



Vomerine teeth in short transverse or feebly oblique series or 

 small groups between the choanae or just behind the level of 

 their posterior borders, nearer to each other than to the latter. 



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

 depressed ; snout rounded or truncate, feebly projecting beyond the 

 mouth, as long as the eye; canthus rostralis obtuse; loreal region 

 feebly oblique, concave ; nostril equally distant from the eye and 

 from the tip of the snout, or a little nearer the latter ; distance 

 between the nostrils equal to or a little greater than the width 

 of the interorbital space, which is equal to or a little less than that 

 of the upper eyelid ; tympanum more or less distinct, sometimes 

 covered with granulations, f to ^ the diameter of the eye, | to i| 

 times its distance from the latter. 



