igo Records of the Indian Museum. [Vol. XX, 



ij to '' the length of the inner toe ; a round outer tubercle, excep- 

 tionally very indistinct. 



Skin of upper parts smooth or finely granulate, sometimes 

 with scattered small warts ; a narrow glandular dorso-lateral fold 

 from above the tympanum to the sacrum or to the hip, the dis- 

 tance between these folds, on the back, 5 to 6 times in the length 

 of head and bodj' ; a glandular fold from below the eye to the 

 shoulder, sometimes followed by one or two glandules. Lower 

 parts smooth. 



Olive, brown, or grey above, usually uniform, sometimes with 

 darker spots on the back and sides ; the dorso-lateral fold often 

 edged with dark browri or black on the outer side ; a dark brown 

 or black streak below the canthus rostralis and a large temporal 

 spot; tympanum sometimes reddish brown; the temporal spot 

 often edged with whitish beneath ; limbs with more or less dis- 

 tinct dark cross-bands ; hinder side of thighs usually marbled with 

 dark brown or black, sometimes with a light longitudinal streak. 

 White or pale yellow beneath, throat and breast often spotted 

 or marbled with brown. 



Males with vocal sacs which are usually internal, but excep- 

 tionall}^ external, though feebly developed, and forming folds on 

 each side of the throat ; fore limb strong, with a strong pad on the 

 inner side of the first finger, covered, during the breeding season, 

 with a velvety, grej'ish horny layer. 



Nasal bones small, oblique, widely separated from each other 

 and from the frontoparietals, which are grooved along the middle ; 

 ethmoid largely exposed above, extending to between the nasals ; 

 zygomatic process of squamosal longer than the posterior. 



Habitat. New Guinea and neighbouring islands (Waigeou, 

 Kei, Aru, Timor L,aut, Fergusson, Murray, etc.). 



I am unable to express an opinion on the specimens from 

 Jobi, referred to R. papua by Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. 

 XLIV, 1912, p. 65, pi. V, fig. 15, in which the male is provided 

 with a humeral gland. 



103. Rana daemeli. 



Hylorana eryi'iraea, part., Cluntli. Ann. and Mag. IV. H. (,^) \X, 1867, 



p. 56. 

 Hvlorana daemeli, Steind. Sitsb. Ak. IVien, l.VIl, i, 1S6S, p. 532, pi. — . 

 Hylorana nebtilosa, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. IV.S.W. 11, 1S77, p. 137. 

 Rana papua, part., Bouleng. Cat. Batr. Ecaiid. p. 64 (1882), and Ann. 



and Mag. N.H. (5) "XVI, 18S5, p. 387; Roux. Abh. Senck. Ges. 



XXXIII, 1910. p. 224. 

 Hyla nobilis, De Vis, Proc.R. Soc. Oueensl. I, 1884, p. i2g. 

 Rana daemeli, Gaxm^n, Bull Mus. Comp. Zool. XXXIX, 1901, p. 14; 



Bouleng. Ti: Zool. Soc. .XX, 1914, p. 250, and Ann. and Mag. N.H. 



C9) I, 1918, p. 240. 

 Rana nova^-gumeie, van Kampen, Nova Guinea. IX, Zoul. p. 37, pl. il. 



fig- 5 (1909). ■■'"d P..459 (IQIS"). 

 Vomerine teeth in oblique groups or short series between the 

 choancC or extending posteriorly a little bej-ond them, equally dis- 

 tant from each other and from the latter. 



