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heel reaches the tip of the snout, or between the eye and 

 the tip of the snout; tibia '/^ ^^ Vs ^^^ length of head and 

 body; when the hind limbs are folded at right angles to the 

 body, the heels are overlapping. 



Skin smooth or with small flat warts or feeble corrugations; 

 a strong fold above the tympanum. 



Rich yellow to orange brown above, in life, with dark brown 

 spots, with or without a light vertebral streak; a dark brown 

 cross-band between the eyes, edged with pale yellow in front, 

 followed by a faint W-shaped marking, the ends of which 

 extend behind the eyes; sides of body finely spotted with 

 very dark brown and white; lips with dark vertical bars; limbs 

 with dark cross-bands; lower parts white, with pale purple and 

 golden shades, with or without dark brown spots on the throat. 

 From snout to vent 38 mm. 



Male without vocal sacs. 



Habitat: Natuna islands (Bunguran); Java? (Tjibodas, 

 1400 — 2000 m.rj '). — Andamans; Malay Peninsula (up to 1600 m.). 



10. Rana palavanensis BIgr. 



Rana palavanensis Boulenger, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (6) XIV, 1894, p. 85. 

 Rana palazanensis Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1897, p. 230. 

 Rana palavanensis Boulenger, Rec. Ind. Mus., XX, 1920, p. 59- 



Vomerine teeth in two short oblique series just behind the 

 level of the choanae; lower jaw without bony prominences. 

 Head as broad as long, or slightly broader; snout rounded, 

 scarcely projecting, as long as the eye; canthus rostralis distinct; 

 loreal region oblique, slightly concave; nostril equidistant from 

 the eye and the end of the snout ; interorbital space as broad 

 as or a little narrower than the upper eyelid; tympanum 

 distinct, Y2 to 'Y3 the diameter of the eye. Tips of fingers 

 swollen or with very small disks, those of toes with small, but 

 very distinct disks; first finger as long as or extending slightly 

 beyond second ; toes -/g webbed, 2 or 3 phalanges of fourth 

 free; subarticular tubercles moderate; inner metatarsal tubercle 

 elliptical, flat, -/g or '/.^ the length of the inner toe; no outer 



i) Mr. Male. Smith, who has examined the specimens from Tjibodas, identified 

 by Annandale (Jrn. Feder. Malay States Mus., VII, 191 7, p. 108) as R. grun- 

 niens^ is of opinion that they are R. hascheana (after a cummunication by Mr. 

 C. Boden Kloss). 



