2. RANA, 5 fi 
as broad as the upper eyelid; tympanum distinct, about as large as 
the eye. Fingers moderate, first extending a little beyond second ; 
Lower surface of foot. 
toes half-webbed; tips of fingers and toes dilated into small disks ; 
subarticular tubercles well developed ; a single, small, oval, inner 
metatarsal tubercle. The hind limb being carried forwards along 
the body, the tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the tip of the snout. 
Skin of the back with short longitudinal glandular folds ; lower 
surfaces smooth. Brown above; loreal and temporal regions 
blackish ; a dark cross band between the eyes; limbs cross-barred ; 
throat and breast mottled with brown. Male without vocal sae. 
From snout to vent 36 millim. 
This species is intermediate between 2. beddomii and R. lepto- 
dactyla. It differs from both, by the much larger tympanum; from 
the former, by the toes, which are only half webbed; from the 
latter, by the length of the first finger, which is superior to that of 
the second, and by the more extensive web between the toes. 
Malabar. 
ab. SQ. Malabar. Col. Beddome [C.]. 
76. Rana leptodactyla. 
Polypedates brevipalmatus, Giiinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, d. 572. 
Lower surface of foot. 
Vomerine teeth in two slightly oblique oval groups just behind 
the level of the hinder edge of the choane. Tongue with a free, 
pointed, conical papilla in the middle. Head moderate, rather 
depressed; snout blunt, with moderate canthus rostralis ; Inter- 
orbital space as broad as, or rather narrower than, the upper eyelid ; 
tympanum distinct, half the width of the eye. Fingers moderate, 
first not extending as far as second; toes one-third webbed ; tips of 
fingers and toes dilated into small disks ; subarticular tubercles well 
developed; a small, oval, inner metatarsal tubercle. The hind 
