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bars; hinder side of thighs marbled with dark brown, or dark 

 brown with small light spots ; young with a light streak from be- 

 low the eye to the shoulder, below a dark brown temporal spot. 

 Lower parts white, uniform or, usually, spotted or mottled vv^ith 

 brown. 



Males with internal vocal sacs ; other secondary sexual char- 

 acters as in R. macrodon. 



Egg small, vitelline sphere measuring 2 millim. in diameter 

 in female 92 millim. long from snout to vent. 



Skeleton as in R. macrodon, but e.^tremity of last phalanx 

 of toes with stronger transverse expansion. 



Meastircments in millimetres. 



I — 3. Laguna del Bay, Luzon. 4 — 5. Negros. 6. S. Celebes, 2000 f. 



Habitat. Philippines, Celebes. Stejneger records the species 

 from I\Iindanao, Basilan, Mindoro and Luzon. 



13. Rana modcsta. 



Ra>ia macrodon, part., Duni. et Bibr., Erp Gi'n. VIII, p. 382 (1841). 



Rana modesta, Bouleng., Cat. Batr. Ecaud. p. 25, pi. i, fig. ,3 (1882); 

 F. .Mull., Verh. Nat. C^s. Basel. X, 1894, p. 367 ; Bouleng., Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1S97, p. 225 ; Boettg., Abh. Senck. Ges. XXV, 1903, p. 382 ; Van 

 Kampen, in M. Weber, Zool. Ergebn. IV, p. 385 (1907). 



Vomerine teeth in moderately long, strong, oblique series 

 originating between the choanae and extending bej^ond the level 

 of their posterior borders, or entirely behind them. Lower jaw 

 with two bony prominences in front, feebly developed in females, 

 moderately large and acutely pointed in males. 



Head moderate, much depressed, as long as broad or a little 

 broader than long; snout rounded or obtusely pointed, feebly pro- 

 jecting beyond the mouth, as long as or slightly shorter than the 

 eye; canthus rostralis distinct, rather obtuse; loreal region 

 moderately oblique, concave ; nostril a littla nearer the end of the 



