78 Records of the Indian Museum 



Measiireinenis in millimetres 



From snout to vent 



Head 



Width of head 



Snout 



Eye 



Interorbital width 



Fore limb 



First finger . . 



Second finger 



Third finger . . 



Fourth finger 



Hind limb 



Tibia 



Foot 



Third toe . . 



Fourth toe . . 



Fifth toe . . 



I. Sureil. 2 — 3. Ghoom. 4. Pashok. 



Two specimens, male and young, also tadpoles, from Sureil, 

 Darjeeling district, 5500 ft., collected bj' Dr. Annandale. A male 

 and two females, from the Suchal Waterworks, near Ghoom, in the 

 same district, collected by Mr. vS. W. Kemp, and a female from 

 Pashok, alt. 4500 feet, together with tadpoles and young, collected 

 by Dr. Annandale, are also preserved in the Indian Museum. 

 They differ from the description of R. gammiei in the shorter snout, 

 the shorter fingers, the first and second equal, the tibio-tarsal 

 articulation reaching nearly the tip of the snout, and the presence 

 of a short glandular fold from behind the eye to the scapular 

 region. 



[The Sureil specimens were taken, with others of R. assamensis, 

 amongst dense herbage at the edge of a small jungle-stream in 

 October. N.A.] 



35. Rana liebigii. 



Megaloplirys gigas. Blyth, jfourn. As. Soc. Beng. XXIII, 1854, p. 299. 

 Rtina liebigii, Giinth., Proc. Zool. Soc. i860, p. 157, pi. xx\-iii, fig. .\. 



and Repi. Brit. Ind. p. 407 (1 864 1 ; .\nders., Proc. Zool. Soc. 187 1, p. 



198; Stoliczka, Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 1872, p. 103; 'Vheoh., Proc As. 



Soc. Beng. 1873, p. in ; Gunih.. Proc. Zool .Soc. 1875, p. 567 ; Boulcng., 



Cat. Batr. Ecaud. p. 21, fig. (18S2) and Faun. Ind., Rept. p. .(.45 



(i8go) ; W. Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 343; .\nnand., Joiirn. 



As. Soc. Beng. (2) II, 1906, p. 290 Rec. Ind. Mus. VIII, 1912. p. 21, 



and Mem. As. Soc. Beng. VI, 1917, p. 136. 

 Rana sikklmensis, Jerdon, Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 1870, p 83: Stolicvka, /. c. 

 Rana gigas {non I.aur.), Peters, Sitsb. Ges. Nat. Fr. Berl. l88l, p. 87. 



Vomerine teeth in feeble groups or oblique series between 

 the choanae and extending beyond the level of their posterior 

 borders. 



Head much broader than long, much depressed; snout 

 rounded, scarcel}^ projecting beyond the mouth, as long as or 

 shorter than the eye ; canthus roslralis indistinct ; loreal region 

 oblique, concave ; nostril a little nearer the eye. than the end 

 of the snout ; the distance between the nostrils a little greater 



