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sometimes present on each side of the anterior part of the back ; a 

 strong glandular fold above the tympanum. Lower parts smooth. 



Dark olive or brown above, uniform or with rather indistinct 

 darker spots, sometimes with vertical bars on the upper lip and 

 cross-bars on the limbs. Lower parts white or brownish, uniform 

 or spotted with dark brown. 



Males with a large external vocal sac on each side of the 

 throat in front of the fore limb. 



Nasals very large, in contact with each other and with the 

 frontoparietals ; upper surface of ethmoid covered ; zygomatic 

 branch of squamosal rather long. Terminal phalanges with feeble 

 transverse distal expansion. 



M ea sure merits in millimetres. 



One of the largest species of the genus. 



Habitat. Solomon Islands (Faro, Shortland, New Georgia, 

 Guadalcanar, Rubiana, and Isabel Islands). 



56. Rana bcddomii. 



Polypedafes beddomii, Giinth., Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 571, pi. Ixiii, 



fig. B. 

 Polypedates bracliytarstis, Gunth., t. c. p. 572. 

 Pana beddomii, Bouleng., Cat. Batr. Ecaud. pp. 55 and 461 (1882), and 



Fami. Ind.,Rept. p 453 (1890); Annand., Pec. Ind. Mus. XV. 1918, 



p. 18, pi. i, fig. 4. 



Vomerine teeth in short, transverse or feebly oblique series 

 on a level with the posterior borders of the choanae or just behind 

 the latter, the space between the two series usually equal to 

 or greater than the length of one of them. Tongue with a long 

 pointed papilla in the middle. 



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

 than long ; snout rounded or obtusely pointed, feebly projecting 



