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Skin smooth or fineh' shagreened above ; a very narrow glan- 

 dular dorso-lateral fold, from above the tympanum to the groin ; 

 the distance between the folds, on the back, \ to J the length of 

 head and body. L,ower parts smooth. 



Pale grey or greyish brown above, uniform or with small 

 brown or black spots; a more or less distinct dark bar between the 

 eyes ; sometimes a dark a between the shoulders ; a dark brown 

 or black canthal streak and a large temporal spot of the same 

 colour involving the tympanum ; limbs with dark cross-bars. 

 Lower parts white, throat and breast closely spotted or marbled 

 with grey or brown. 



Male unknown. 



Nasal bones rather small, oblique, separated from each other 

 and from the frontoparietals, which do not cover the ethmoid in 

 front. 



Measurements of types, in millimetres. 



From snout to vent 



Head .. 



Width of head 



Snout 



Eye 



Interorbital width 



Tympanum 



Fore limb 



First finger 



Second finger 



Third finger 



Fourth finger 



Hind limb 



Tibia 



Foot 



Third toe 



Fourth toe 



Fifth toe 



Habitat. Kanshirei Village, Formosa, about 2,000 feet. 

 But for the less oblique loreal region and the dilated toes, 

 this species resembles strikingly R. japonica. 



72. Rana nigrovittata. 



Limnodytes nigi'ovittatiis, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beiig. XXIV, 1855, 



p. 71S. 

 Rana nigrnvittata, part., W. Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 345. 

 Rana nigroviitata, Bouleng-. Ann. Mus. Genova(2), XIII, 1893, p. 334, 



and Ann. and Mag. N.H. (7), XII, 1903, p. 186; S. Flower, Pvoc. 



Zool. Soc. 1899, p. 896; Bouleng. Faun. Mai. Pen., Rept. p. 242 



(1913) ; Annand. Mem. As. Soc. Beng. VI, 1917, pp. 140, 144. 



Vomerine teeth in oblique groups or short series on a level 

 with or just behind the posterior borders of the choanje, equally 

 distant from each other and from the latter, or nearer each other. 



Head as long as broad, much depressed ; snout rounded or 

 obtusely pointed, more or less projecting beyond the mouth, as 

 long as the eye ; canthus rostralis distinct ; loreal region feebly 

 oblique or nearly vertical, deeply concave ; nostril equally distant 

 from the eye and from the end of the snout or a little nearer the 



