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Specimens of larvae in the collection of the Indian Museum : — 



17722. Pari, Orissa Coast. Dr. N. Annandale. 



17726. Madras (town). Museum Coll. 



17665-66. Chalakudi, Cochin State. Dr. F. H. Gravely. 



17727. Kandy, Ceylon. Dr. F. H. Gravely. 



Rana breviceps, Schneider. 



1904. Rana breviceps, Ferguson, op. cit., p. 502, pi. B., fig. 1. 



1915. Rana breviceps, Narayan Rao, Rec. Ind. Mus., XI, p. 34, figs. 2A, 2B. 



This tadpole has been described by Ferguson and by Naravan Rao, 

 who points out certain differences between the specimens examined 

 by him and those described by the former author. 



Geographical distribution of the species. — The Punjab (including the 

 Kashmir Valley) ; the Himalayas up to 7,000 ft. ; the Indo-Gangetic 

 plain ; Peninsular India ; Assam. 



Specimens of larvae in the collection of the Indian Museum : — 



16534. Trivandrum, Travancore. Brit. Mus. (Ex.). 

 16633. Bangalore, South India. C. R. Narayan Rao. 

 17676. Coorg, South India. C. R. Narayan Rao. 



Rana limnocharis, Weigm. 



1909. Rana limnocharis, van Kampen, Natuurh. Tijdsch. Ned.-Ind., LXIX, 

 p. 35. 



1916. Rana limnocharis, Smith, op. cit., pp. 165-166. 



1917. Rana limnocharis, Annandale, Mem. As. Soc. Bengal VI, p. 132, figs. 2B, 



(p. 124), 3B (p. 132), pi. vi, fig, 2. 



Tadpole usually small, but variable in size ; head and body broadly 

 oval, somewhat depressed, snout bluntly pointed, declivous ; nostrils 

 as seen from above much nearer tip of snout than to eyes, the distance 

 between them not quite half that between the eyes ; interorbital space 

 about as wide as distance between eye and nostril ; eyes lateral, directed 

 outwards, but protruding above in the living animal. Spiracle tubular, 

 its opening hardly below the level of the eye, nearer to the eye than to 

 the posterior extremity of the body. Ventral surface slightly convex. 



Mouth-disk small, transverse ; upper lip edged with teeth, lower 

 lip, the lateral lobes of which are not well developed, with papillae. 

 Dental formula 1 : 1 + 1/13, the uppermost tooth-row much the longest, 

 the first and second rows on the lower lip sub-equal ; beak black, slender, 

 not serrated on the margins, the upper part V-shaped, with a distinct 

 convexity in the middle, the lower part simply V-shaped. 



Colouration whitish, more or less densely covered with black pig- 

 ment-cells on the dorsal and lateral surfaces of the head and body and a- 

 more or less distinct dark Y-shaped mark on the top of the head. 

 Ventral surface almost colourless ; tail whitish blotched with black. 



Tail relatively slender, sharply and gradually pointed, with the 

 membranes particularly well-developed ; dorsal membrane arising almost 

 on a level with the posterior extremity of the body, distinctly deeper 

 than the lower membrane, its margin sinuous. 



