68 RANIDZ. 
tending as far as second; toes moderate, nearly entirely webbed ; 
tips of fingers and toes dilated into small disks; subarticular tuber- 
cles rather small; 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 smooth, glan- 
dular on the flanks and round the vent. Dark brown above; a 
black temporal spot ; whitish beneath, clouded with grey; lower 
surface of limbs grey, white-spotted. 
Madagascar. 
BOs Madagascar. 
96. Rana granulata. 
Limnodytes granulatus, Boetty. Zool. Anz. 1881, p. 861. 
Vomerine teeth in two suborbicular groups behind the level of 
the choanz. Snout rather acute; canthus rostralis distinct; loreal 
region very concave; tympanum distinct, more than half the size 
of the eye. Fingers slender, first longer than second; toes more 
than two thirds webbed; tips of fingers and toes dilated into rather 
large disks; subarticular tubercles very prominent ; a single meta- 
tarsal tubercle. The hind limb being carried forwards along the 
body, the heel reaches beyond the tip of the snout. Upper surfaces 
granulate; a fold from the eye to the shoulder; another very 
narrow one along each side of the back ; belly glandulose. Brownish 
above, sides blackish ; a W-shaped dark mark on the front of the 
back ; limbs cross-barred; beneath black marbled and spotted, ex- 
cept on the belly. 
Nossi Bé, Madagascar. 
97. Rana luctuosa. 
Limnodytes luctuosus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1871, p.579, and Ann. 
Mus. Civ. Genov. 1872, p. 43, pl. 6. f. 1. 
Vomerine teeth in two small oblique groups on a leyel with the 
hinder edge of the choane. Head moderate; snout short, rounded, 
without canthus rostralis ; interorbital space broader than the upper 
eyelid ; tympanum distinct, not quite two thirds the size of the eye. 
Fingers rather short, first extending beyond second ; toes moderate, 
hardly half webbed; tips of fingers slightly, of toes distinctly 
dilated ; subarticular tubercles moderate; 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 quite smooth; no glandular lateral fold. Dark brown 
above, the sides nearly black, the limbs speckled and striped across 
with whitish ; a narrow whitish line on each side, from the tip of 
the snout along the canthus rostralis, the outer edge of the upper 
eyelid, and the side of the back to the vent; brown beneath, more 
or less speckled with whitish. 
Borneo. 
a-b, c-f. 9, hgr., & yg. Matang. 
