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eye and tip of snout). The typical form inhabits: Singapore, 

 Engano, the Natuna islands, Borneo, Java '), the var. blytliii: 

 the Continent, Sumatra, Borneo and the Philippines. 



Habitat-): Simalur ! ; Pulo Babi ! ; Nias ! ; Mentawei islands 

 (Sipora); Engano; Sumatra (Lho Sukon, Atjeh!; Gajo countries!; 

 Sukaranda, Upper Langkat ; Deli!; Batak mts. ; Lauttador; 

 Sibolga!; Talu ! ; Matua ! ; near Solok and Singkarah ! ; Sungai 

 Kumbang, 1600 m. ! and Sandaran Agung, 745 m., Kurintji!; 

 Muarasako, Kurintji !; Indragiri; Ajer Njuruk, Dempu, 1400 m. ! ; 

 Pasemah ! ; Rawas riv.); Natuna islands (Bunguran); Borneo 

 (Baram riv.; Mt. Dulit; Seberuang riv.; Balikpapan !); Java 

 (Buitenzorg! ; Pasirdatar, 900 m.!; Sukabumi!; Babakan !). — 

 Burma; Annam ; Siam ; Malay Peninsula, up to 1200 m.; 

 Singapore; Philippines. 



6. Rana modesta Blgr. 



Rana modesta Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., 1882, p. 25, pi. I, fig. 3. 



Rana viodesta F. Miiller, Verh. natuif. Ges. Basel, X, 1895, p. 867. 



Rana modesta Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1897, p. 228. 



Rana microtympaniim v. Kampen, Weber's Zool. Ergebn., Leiden, IV, 1907, 



p. 386 (with tadpole), pi. XVI, fig. 2 (head). 

 Rana magna Stejneger, Smithson. Misc. Coll., LII, 1910, p. 437. 

 Ra7ia modesta v. Kampen, Bijdr. t. d. Dierk., pt. 19, 1913, p. 89 (tadpole). 

 Rana modesta Roux, Revue Suisse Zool., XXVI, 1918, p. 411. 

 Rafia magna^ R. modesta and R. mkrotympamwi Boulenger, Rec. Ind. Mas., XX, 



1920, p. 45, 46. 



Vomerine teeth in two moderately long oblique series between 

 the choanae and extending beyond the level of their posterior 

 borders, or entirely behind them; lower jaw with two bony 

 processes in front, which are feebly developed in the female, 

 larger and acutely pointed in the male. Head larger in the 

 male than in the female, as broad as or broader than long; 

 snout rounded or obtusely pointed, feebly projecting, as long 

 as the upper eyelid, longer than deep ; canthus rostralis angular, 

 straight; loreal region oblique, concave; nostril in the middle 

 between the tip of the snout and the eye, or nearer the first; 

 interorbital space about as broad as the upper eyelid in the 

 adult, usually narrower in the young; tympanum distinct, '/^ 



i) After Boulenger also Lombok, Floies, Halmahera en Batjan; see, however, 

 the next note. 



2) The specimens described by various authors from Lombok, Flores, Celebes, 

 the Moluccas and the Philippines probably belong to R. modesta and grunniens. 



