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Greyish brown above, with more or less distinct darker spots or 

 marblings ; often a dark cross-bar between the eyes and a A-or W- 

 shaped marking between the shoulders ; dark vertical bars on the 

 lips, two of which extend to the eye ; limbs with dark cross-bands. 

 I^ower parts white, throat spotted with brown. 



Males with a vocal sac on each side, forming folds on the throat, 

 which bears a M-shaped black marking; fore limb very robust; 

 a strong pad on the inner side of the first finger. 



Nasal bones large, in contact with each other and with the 

 front o-parietals, which are narrow and flat; ethmoid not exposed ; 

 zygomatic process of squamosal short. Omosternal style forked 

 at the base. Terminal phalanges obtusely pointed. 



Measurements in millimetres. 



Prom snout to vent 



Head . . 



Width of head . . 



Snout 



Eye . . 



Interorbital width 



Tympanum 



Fore Umb 



First finger . . . . 



Second finger 



Third finger 



Fourth finger 



Hind Hmb 



Tibia . . 



Foot . . 



Third toe 



Fourth toe 



Fifth toe 



Habitat. Malabar. 



Connects Raua with Tomopterna. 



49. Rana breviceps. 



/?rt);rt breviceps. Sclineid., Hist. Ampli. 1, p. 140 (1799); Peters. Man. 



Berl. Ac. 1863, p. 76; Bouleng., Cat. Batr. Ecaud. p. 32 (1882), and 



Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 451 (1S90); Ferguson, Jottrii. Bomb. N.H. Sac. 



XV, 1904, p. 502, pi. B, fig. I. 

 Rana variegata, Gravenh. Delic. Miis. \'ratisl. p. 13, pi. viii, fig. i 



(1829). 

 Pyxicephalus fodiens, Jerd., Journ. As. Soc. Beng. X.Kll, 1853, p. 534. 

 Py.'cicephalus pluvial is, Jerd., I.e. 



Spiiaerotheca strigata, Giinth., Cat. Balr. Sal. p. 32, pi. ii, fig. .\ (1858). 

 Tomopterna delalandii, part., Giinth., op. cit. p. 129. 

 Tomopterna strigata, Giinth., Proc. Zool. Soc. i860, p. 165. 

 Pvxicepltalus breviceps, Giinth., Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 411 (1864) ; Theob., 



Cat. Rept. As. Soe. Mus. p. 80 (1868); Anders., Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, 



p. 200 Murray, Zool. Sind, p. 399 (1884). 



Vomerine teeth in strong, short oblique series between the 

 choanae or extending a little beyond the level of their posterior 

 borders. 



