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region oblique, concave; nostril much nearer to tip of snout than 

 to eye; interorbital space as broad as or narrower than the 

 upper eyelid, convex in the female, plane in the male ; tympanum 

 distinct, Ys *o V2 ^^^ diameter of the eye. Fingers blunt or 

 with slightly swollen tips, toes with small disks; first finger 

 not or slightly extending beyond second ; toes -j.^ to Y^ webbed, 

 the web reaching the disks, except that of fourth toe, two 

 phalanges of which are free; the web penetrating between the 

 outer metatarsals; subarticular tubercles large, oval; inner 

 metatarsal tubercle elliptic, flat, outer tubercle, if distinguish- 

 able, small and rounded; no tarsal fold; heel reaching the 

 eye; tibia 2'/o to 2-/,., times in length from snout to vent; 

 when the hind limbs are folded at right angles to tjie body, 

 the heels do not overlap. 



Upper surfaces smooth or with numerous small, flat, porous 

 warts, which may be elongate on the anterior part of the 

 back; a strong fold above the tympanum; no dorsolateral 

 fold; belly and lower surface of thighs slightly granulate, other- 

 wise smooth below. 



Olive or dark brown above, the warts blackish, or with a 

 few dark spots and cross-bars on the limbs, vertical bars on 

 the upper lip, and a cross-bar between the eyes; hinder side 

 of thighs with small whitish dots; lower parts brownish white, 

 the throat light brown. From snout to vent 125 mm. 



Male with two internal vocal sacs. 



Terminal phalanges with a feeble transverse expansion at 

 the tip. 



Development without free larva. Eggs large (6 to 10 mm. 

 in diameter). 



Perhaps identical with R. bufoniformis, as Barbour (Proc. 

 New England Zool. Club, VII, 192 1, p. 98) states. 



Habitat: Solomon islands. 



14. Rana ventricosa Vogt. 



Rana ventricosus (sic!), Vogt, Sitzungsber. Ges. naturf. Fr., Berlin, 191 2, p. 8. 



Vomerine teeth in two oblique series, beginning at the inner 

 edge and extending a little behind the level of the choanae. 

 Head broad; snout blunt; canthus rostralis rather indistinct; 

 loreal region oblique; nostril near the tip of the snout; inter- 

 orbital space as broad as the upper eyelid ; tympanum -/s the 



