34 RANID A. 
sometimes with a light vertebral line; throat more or less spotted 
with brown. Male with a subgular vocal sac. 
South and East Africa. 
a,b. § & yg. Cape of Good Hope. Sir A. Smith [P.]. 
c. Ad. (stuffed). S. Africa. Sir A. Smith [P.]. 
a. D3 Mossambique. Prof. Peters. (As typical of 
Pyxicephalus edulis.) 
e. Ad. (stuffed). Africa. 
30. Rana maltzanii. 
Maltzania bufonia, Boettg. Abhandl. Senck, Gres. xii. p. 418, pl. 1. £.3. 
Closely allied to R. adspersa, from which it differs in the larger 
tympanum and the absence of longitudinal folds on the back. 
In this, as in the preceding species, the tongue is less deeply 
emarginate than in the other members of the genus Lana. 
Senegambia. 
31. Rana khasiana. 
Pyxicephalus khasianus, Anders. Journ. As. Soc, 1871, p. 23. 
Vomerine prominences placed transversely behind the choane ; 
lower jaw with two apophyses in front. Head moderate ; occiput 
much swollen; tympanum half the size of the eye, faintly visible. 
First and second fingers nearly equal. Legs of moderate length. 
A small, little prominent metatarsal shovel. Uniform brown above, 
faintly barred on the thighs ; spotted with brown on the sides, chin, 
thorax, and under surface of the limbs. 
Khasi Hills. 
32. Rana capito. 
Rana capito, Leconte, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1855, p. 425, pl. 5. 
Vomerine teeth in two straight groups between the choane. 
Habit stout. Head large; snout moderate, subtriangular, with 
indistinct canthus rostralis; interorbital space narrower than the 
upper eyelid; tympanum very distinct, two thirds the size of the 
eye. Fingers moderate, first extending beyond second ; toes rather 
short, hardly half webbed; subarticular tubercles of fingers and toes 
moderate; inner metatarsal tubercle small, oval, slightly com- 
pressed ; a rather indistinct outer tubercle. The hind limb being 
carried forwards along the body, the metatarsal tubercle reaches 
between the eye and the tip of the snout. A rather broad, but not 
very prominent, glandular lateral fold. Brownish above, with small 
rounded dark spots close together ; legs cross-barred. 
Georgia. 
a-b, Her. N. America. Edward Doubleday, Esq. [P.]. 
