RAN A. 245 



black, feebly denticulate. Tail pointed, the upper crest not 

 extending to the base of the muscular part. Total length 60 millim. 



Similar larvse, specially adapted for life in torrential streams, 

 are produced by the two following species. 



Burma, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Java. Tlie only 

 speciraeiis known from the Malay Peninsula are from the Batu 

 Caves and from Bukit Itam, Selangor, 1500 feet, where it is very 

 abundant. 



261. Rana livida. 



Folypedates lividiiSj Blytb, Journ, Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xxiv, p. 718 



(1855). 

 Polypedates chloronotus, Giiutli. P. Z. S. 1875, p. 569, pi. Ixv, 



fig. A. 

 Rnna chloronota, Bouleng. Cat. Batr. Ecaud. p. 69 (1882). 

 Rana livida, Bouleug. Faun. Brit. Ind., Rept. p. 462 (1890) ; A. L. 



Butler, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Bombay, xv, p. 201 (1903). 



Vomerine teeth in two oblique series commencing between, and 

 extending posteriorly beyond, the choanfe. Head much depressed, 

 about as loug as broad ; snout rounded, shorter than the orbit ; 

 canthus rostralis obtuse ; loreal region nearly vertical, concave ; 

 nostril a little nearer tip of snout tlian eye ; interorbital space as 

 broad as the upper eyelid ; tympanum distinct, about half the 

 diameter of the eye. Pingers moderate, depressed, first extending 

 slightly beyond second ; toes webbed to the disks ; tips of lingers 

 and toes dilated into veiy large disks, that of the third finger as 

 large as the tympanum ; subarticular tubercles large; a small oval 

 inner metatarsal tubercle ; no outer metatarsal tubercle. The 

 tibio-tarsal articulation reaches beyond the tip of the snout ; tibia 

 as long as the trunk. Skin smooth. Upper surface of head and 

 body green, usually with a few black spots ; sides of head aud body 

 and limbs dark brown ; limbs with blackish cross-bands ; groin and 

 back of thighs with yellow spots or marblings ; a white streak 

 along the upper lip ; beneath white or yellowish, the throat usually 

 speckled with brown. Male with twu external vocal sacs, below 

 the angles of the mouth. 



Prom snout to vent 90 millim. 



The tadpole of this species is provided with an adhesive ventral 

 disk or sucker ; it has a round black spot on each side behind the 

 eye and another on each side of the belly, near the base of the tail. 

 Total length 52 millim. 



Eastern Himalayas, mountains of Assam and Burma ; a speci- 

 men was obtained in the Larut Hills, Perak, by Mr. L. Wray, 



202. Rana larutensis. 



Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) iii, p. 273, pi. xi, fig. 1 (1899) ; 

 S. Flower, P. Z. S. 1899, p. 898; Laidlaw, P. Z. S. 1900, p. 886 



