54 RANIDZE. 
tubercle. The hind limb being carried forwards along the body, the 
tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the tip of the snout, or somewhat 
beyond. Skin with narrow, interrupted glandular folds along the 
back. Light brown above, with rounded, sometimes confluent dark 
brown spots; sometimes a light vertebral line or a broad unspotted 
zone along the middle of the back ; a dark temporal spot ; beneath 
immaculate. Male with two internal vocal sacs. 
S. Africa. 
a-c. 2 & yg. South Africa. 
d-h. 2 South Africa, Sir A. Smith [P.]. 
ik. 9. Cape of Good Hope. Sir A. Smith [P.]. 
Lm. 3 Kaffraria. F. P. M. Weale, Esq. [P.]. 
71. Rana fasciata. 
Rana fasciata, Giinth. Cat. p. 20. 
Strongylopus fasciatus, (Bote) Tschudi, Batr. p. 79; Steind. Novara, 
Amph., p. 21. 
Rana fasciata, Dum. § Bibr. p.889; Smith, IU. 8. Afr., Rept. pl. 78. 
fA. 
delalandii, Bell, Zool. Beagle, Rept. p. 81, pl. 16. f. 1. 
Strongylopus oxyrhynchus, Fvtzing. Sitab. Ac. Wren, xli. p. 414. 
Vomerine teeth in two long, nearly straight series, transversely on 
a level with the front edge of the choane. Head moderate; snout 
long, rather pointed; interorbital space as broad as the upper 
eyelid; tympanum distinct, half the size of the eye. Fingers 
slender, first not extending beyond second; toes very slender, 
fourth at least as long as the distance between vent and tympanum, 
webbed at the base; subarticular tubercles of fingers and toes 
moderate; inner metatarsal tubercle small, oval, little prominent ; 
no outer tubercle. The hind limb being carried forwards along the 
body, the tibio-tarsal articulation reaches much beyond the tip of 
the snout. Skin of the back with rather indistinct longitudinal 
folds. Light brown above, with four or six longitudinal dark 
brown stripes on the back; a dark temporal spot; beneath im- 
maculate. Male with two internal vocal sacs. 
S. Africa. 
a: 2% S. Africa. C. Darwin, Esq. [P.]. (Ori- 
ginal specimen of Prof. Bell’s 
description and figure.) 
b, c. Several spec. : 8. Africa. Sir A. Smith [P.]. 
3d ’ 2; & ys: = ; 
d. Q. Kaffraria. F. P. M. Weale, Esq. [P.]. 
72. Rana macrodactyla. 
Hylarana macrodactyla, Giinth. Cat. p. 72, pl. ii. f. C. 
Ilylorana macrodactyla, Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 424; Stohezka, 
Proc, As. Soc. 1872, p. 104. 
