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length of tail about twice that of body and 3 1 / 2 to 4 times 

 its depth. Nostril nearer to the tip of the snout than to the eye, 

 which is lateral and equally distant from the tip of the snout 

 and the spiraculum; distance between the eyes about 2 / 3 the 

 width of the body and more than twice the distance between 

 the nostrils, which is a little less than the width of the mouth ; 

 spiraculum sinistral, lateral, directed upwards and backwards, 

 nearer to the vent than to the tip of the snout ; vent dextral, close 

 to the lower border of the tail. Tail pointed ; upper crest 

 extending to the base of the tail, somewhat higher than the 

 lower one, which is about half as deep as the muscular part 

 of the tail at its base. 



Sides and lower border of lips with papillae; jaws narrowly 

 edged with black; rows of teeth 1 / ' 1 ' or 1 ' 1 / l 1 ' , outer 

 series of lower lip short, inner one hardly interrupted. 



Back and tail (including the crests) metallic green, marbled 

 with dark; belly white or yellowish, with small rusty red spots, 

 throat dark grey ; body with a few scattered silvery dots. 

 More developed tadpoles have three white longitudinal stripes 

 on the back. Length 58 mm. 



Habitat: Simalur!; Nias!; Sumatra (Takengan, Gajo coun- 

 tries ! ; Lower Langkat; Medan ! ; Brastagi, Karo highland, 

 1400 m.!; Bandarbaru, +900 m. !, and Tandjungberingin, 

 + 300 m.!, Batak mts. ; Airbangis!; Talu!; Gunung Sahilan!; 

 Andalas ! ; Agam; Matur ! ; Baso ! ; Ajer Teganang!; near Padang- 

 pandjang and Kajutanam ! ; Batu Sangkar, betw. 460 and 900 m. ; 

 near Solok and Singkarah ! ; Kalung, Tilatang!; Padang; Pai- 

 nan ! ; Indragiri; Ringat; Benakat, Palembang); Banka; Natuna 

 islands (Laut isl. ; Bunguran) ; Borneo (Panjut, Br. N.-Borneo 

 Baram ; Kutjing; Bengkajang; Kapuas riv. ; Bandjermasin !) 

 Java (Lebak; Daru ; Batavia ! ; Depok; Buitenzorg! ; Tjitajam ! 

 Sukabumi ! ; Tjitalahab !) ; Celebes (Makasser). — Bengal ; Assam 

 Yunnan; Burma; Siam ; Cochin-China; Malay Peninsula; Sin- 

 gapore; Philippines. 



44. Rana persimilis nova spec. 



Rana novae-britanniac (part.) Werner, Zool. Jahrb., Syst., XIII, 1900, p. 493, 



pi. XXXII, fig. 3. 

 Rana lateralis ■ (part.) Roux, Revue Suisse Zool., XXVI, 1918, p. 409. 



Vomerine teeth in two oblique series between, and close 

 to the choanae, not extending behind the level of their poste- 



