240 HANID.I). 



as broad as tlie upper evelid ; tympanum as large as or a little 

 smaller than the eye. dingers moderate, first mucli longer than 

 second ; toes | webbed ; tips o£ fingers and toes feebly dilated ; sub- 

 articular tubsrcles small ; a large, compressed, very prominent 

 inner metatarsal tubercle, ^ the length of the inner toe ; no outer 

 metatarsal tubercle. The tibio-tarsal articulation reaches between 

 the eye and the tip of the snout. Skin smooth; a narrow glandular 

 dorso-lateral fold ; the specimen from Kwala Aring has very 

 curious fine glandular folds across the back, running obliquely 

 backwards from left to right. Back grey, sides black orgrey^dth 

 black spots, the black sharply separated from the grey on the 

 lateral fold and on the canthus rostralis ; a black line borders the 

 upper lip, separated from the black loreal and temporal regions 

 by a broad pure white band which extends to above the shoulder 

 and sends up a process behind the tympanum ; a black humeral 

 spot ; hind limb with black cross-bars ; hinder side of thighs 

 mai'bled black and white; throat blackish, witli a whitisli median 

 line ; breast closely spotted with black ; belly white. Male with 

 internal vocal sacs. 



From snout to vent 70 millim. 



Originally described from Tenasserim. Mr, Laidlaw caught a 

 single specimen in thick jungle at Kwala Aring, Ulu Kelantan. 



255, Rana nicohariensis. 



Hylorana nicobariensis, Stoliczka, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng, xxxix, 



p. 150, pi. ix, fig. 2 (1870). ^ _ ■' 



Rana nicobariensis, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) xvi, p. 389 



(1885) ; id. Faun. Brit. lud., Rept. p. 459 (1890) ; id. Ann. & 



Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) viii, 1891, p. :^91. 

 Rana erythrcva, var. elonyata, Werner, Jahresb. Nat. Ver. Magdeb. 



1892, p. 525. 

 Rana lemniscata, Boettg. Zool. Anz, 1893, p. 337. 



Vomerine teeth in two oblique series between the choanae. 

 Head a little longer than broad ; snout more or less pointed, as 

 long as or a little longer than the orbit, with distinct canthus 

 rostralis and nearly vertical, concave loreal region ; nostril much 

 nearer tip of snout than eye ; interorbital space a little broader 

 than the upper eyelid ; tympanum very distinct, f to | the 

 diameter of the eye. Fingers moderate, first extending a little 

 be3^ond second ; toes moderate, | webbed ; tips of fingers and toes 

 dilated into small but very distinct disks ; subarticular tubercles 

 rather small ; a small oval inner metatarsal tubercle, and a smaller, 

 rounded one at the base of the fourth toe. The tibio-tarsal 

 articulation reaches the tip of the snout, or not quite so far. 

 Upper parts smooth or finely granular, back and sides sometimes 

 with a few small glandules ; a strong but narrow glandular 

 dorso-lateral fold. Greyish or reddish brown, uniform or spotted 

 with darker ; sides of head dark brown or black, which shade 



