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num often reddish ; limbs without or with very indistinct dark 

 cross-bands. Whitish beneath, throat and breast usually spotted 

 or marbled with dark brown. 



Males with an external vocal sac on each side of the throat 

 and a large oval gland on the inner side of the arm ; a moderately 

 strong pad on the inner side of the first finger, covered, during the 

 breeding season, with a velvety greyish horny layer. 



Nasal bones small, oblique, widely separated from each other 

 and from the frontoparietals; ethmoid largely exposed above, 

 extending to the anterior borders of the nasals ; zygomatic pro- 

 cess of squamosal longer than the posterior. 



Measurements, in millimetres. 



1. 2. 1,. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. q. 10. II. 12. I^. 



From snout to vent . . 76 162 142 140 120 148 103 103 147 140 84 123 152 



Head . . . . 28 52 49 47 40 50 36 36 40 50 30 42 53 



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 . . . . 35 ft- 56 54 53 65 45 43 63 60 37 60 68 



Fifth toe .. . . -5 5.^ 42 42 41 49 33 33 49 4*^ ^S 44 ^$ 



1-2. Mimika R., Dutch New Guinea. 3-5. Soghere, Brit. New Guinea (types 

 of R. macroscelis). 6. Soghere District. 7-10. Haveri, Brit. New Guinea. 11. 

 Albert Edward Range, B.N.G. 12. Madew, B.N.G. 13. Astrolabe Mts., B.N.G. 



Habitat. New Guinea, Waigeou and Aru Islands. 



In this and the 10 following species, I regard the absence of 

 the dorso-lateral glandular fold as secondary, these species being, in 

 my opinion, derived from the Ranae typicae group of the subgenus 

 Rana. 



90. Rana andersonii. 



Polvpedates yuniianeiisis, .Vnders. .inat. Zoo!. Re:. I'lniii. p. S46. pi. 



Ixwiii, fig. 3 (1879). 

 A'niin andersonii, Bouleng. Cat. Baty. Ecaud. p. 55 (1SS2), Faun. Iiid,. 



Rept. p. 447 (1890). and Proc. Zool. Soc. 1899, pp. 16S and 960. 



Vomerine teeth in transverse or slightlj- oblique series between 

 the choanae or extending a little beyond the level of the posterior 

 borders of the latter. 



Head as long as broad or slightly broader than long, much 

 depressed; snout rounded or obtusely pointed, feebly projecting 

 beyond the mouth, as long as the eye or a little shorter ; canthus 

 rostralis obtuse; loreal region feebly oblique, concave; nostril 

 equidistant from the eye and from the tip of the snout or a little 

 nearer the former ; the distance between the nostrils equals or a 



