174 

 5. Rana macrodon Kuhl. 



Rana macrodon (Kuhl) Dumeril et Bibron, Erpet. gen., Paris, VIII, 1841, p. 382. 

 Rana macrodon Blanford, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1881, p. 225, pi. XXI, 



fig. 4 (head). 

 Rana macrodon part. Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., 1882, p. 24, pi. I, 



fig. 4 (inside of mouth). 

 Rana macrodon Flower, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1896, p. 898, pi. XLV, fig. 1. 

 Rana macrodon Flower, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1899, p. 888, pi. LIX, figs. 



1, \a (tadpole). 

 Rana macrodon Boulenger, Vert. Fauna Malay Penins., Rept. and Batr., London, 



1912, p. 233. 

 Rana macrodon Boulenger, Rec. Ind. Mus., XX, 1920, p. 40. 



Vomerine teeth in two long oblique series between the 

 choanae and extending beyond the level of their hinder borders; 

 lower jaw with two bony prominences in front, feebly deve- 

 loped in the female, large and acutely pointed in the adult 

 male. Head as long as or broader than long, rarely slightly 

 longer than broad; occiput much swollen in the male; snout 

 obtusely pointed, feebly projecting, as long as or longer than 

 the upper eyelid, longer than deep; canthus rostralis obtuse, 

 straight; loreal region oblique, concave; nostril nearer to end of 

 snout than to eye; interorbital space narrower than, to 1 '/ 2 the 

 width of the upper eyelid; tympanum distinct, 2 /s *° Vg * ne 

 diameter of the eye. Tips of fingers obtuse or feebly swollen, 

 those of toes with very small disks; first finger extending 

 beyond second, which is shorter than fourth; third toe longer 

 than fifth; toes entirely or nearly entirely webbed ; subarticular 

 tubercles well developed; inner metatarsal tubercle oblong, 

 blunt, about 2 / 5 to 3 / 5 the length of the first toe ; no outer meta- 

 tarsal tubercle ; a dermal fold along outer side of fifth toe ; 

 tarsal fold present or absent ; the heel reaches the eye or the 

 tip of the snout; tibia about half the length of head and body; 

 when the hind limbs are folded at right angles to the body, 

 the heels are more or less overlapping. 



Skin smooth, or with small rounded warts above ; upper 

 eyelid tubercular, a fold above the tympanum; young with a 

 narrow glandular fold on each side of the back, beginning 

 behind the upper eyelid. Smooth below. 



Olive-brown, bronze, green or yellowish- to chocolate-red 

 above, with or without small darker spots and sometimes with 

 a broader or narrower yellow or orange vertebral line ; loreal 

 and temporal regions, and a cross-bar between the eyes some- 



