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times the width of the upper eyelids; fingers short, not dilated, first shorter 
than the second; subarticular tubercles only slightly 
enlarged; no metacarpal tubercles; toes short, slightly 
dilated, with a very short basal web, (see figure 
2), subarticular tubercles slightly distinct, a large 
inner metatarsal tubercle; the tibio-tarsal articulation 
reaches the anterior border of the eye; skin of the 
entire body smooth. 
Color.— Ground color above, dark brownish gray; 
symmetrically marked on each side with a curious 
design of black blotches, each blotch edged with pink- 
ish; the most striking features being the black marks 
on the tympanic and femoral regions and the sealing- 
wax red -shaped spot just above the anus; sides and 
throat region washed with light brown and stippled 
with white; belly and thighs white. 
Remarks.— Two specimens, both adults, were 
secured. Smith tells us that when one of his 
Figure 2. 
Dyak helpers caught these two frogs he was greatly excited and 
said that he had never seen anything like them before. 
He caught 
them in a hole under either a stone or a fallen tree trunk, but of 
the exact situation Prof. Smith is not sure. 
Rana laterimaculata sp. nov. 
Type, no. 3811, Museum of Comparative Zoélogy, from 
Sadong, Sarawak, Borneo, collected by Prof. Harrison W. 
Smith in 1912. 
Description of the type— Vomerine teeth in two small 
oblique groups, converging posteriorly and not extending 
behind the posterior margin of the choanae; anterior end 
of each series very slightly posterior to the anterior margin 
of a choana; posterior ends of the series separated from 
each other by a distance slightly greater than the diameter 
of one of the choanae; nostrils much nearer to tip of snout 
than to eye; interorbital space slightly greater than upper 
eyelid; snout concave above, canthus rostralis distinct but 
rounded, loreal region very concave; tympanum circular, 
over one half the diameter of the eye, its distance from 
the latter not over one third of its own diameter; fingers 
long and tapering, not expanded distally, first extending 
far beyond the second; toes almost free, long, slender, 
Figure 3. 
with very small web (see figure 3); outer metatarsal tubercle oblong, equal 
