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Perhaps further researches will show, that still other species 

 [elberti, celebeiisis, grisea, daemcli, krejfti) belong to the same 

 variable species. On the other hand R. fal/ax, described by 

 me after a specimen from Waigeu and distinguished by a small 

 tympanum (half the width of the eye) and slate blue colour 

 (in spirit) and which BoULENGER (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (9) I, 

 19 1 8, p. 242, and I.e., 1920) unites with papiia, may be an 

 proper species; it is even possible, that this is the XQ.2X R. papiia 

 (described by Lesson, after specimens from Waigeu, as bluish 

 green), and that the specimens usually described as R. papua 

 are another species, which then must be named R. zvaigeensis 

 Dum. et Bibr. (Erpetologie generale, VIII, 1841, p. 514). 



Habitat: Flores, above 900 m. ; Celebes (Lake Poso; Lindu !; 

 Bwool; Uangkahulu valley; Gorontalo?!; Tomohon ; Rurukan ; 

 Menado!; Mt. Masarang); Morotai ! ; Halmahera, up to 250 m.; 

 Ternate; Batjan; Buru, up to 750 m. ! ; Ceram ! ; Timorlaut 

 islands; Kei islands; Aru islands; Waigeu!; Batanta; New 

 Guinea (Sorong; Dore Hum; Manokwari ; Andai ; Mansiman!; 

 Hatam, Arfak mts. ; Wendesi ! ; Etna bay ! ; Jamur lake!;Rubi, 

 Geelvink bay ; Mamberamo riv. ! ; near Idenburg riv., + MSo m. !; 

 Doorman riv. ! ; Sermowai riv. ! ; Tor riv. ! ; Tanahmerah bay !; 

 Waipopa riv.!; Jaona!; Humboldt bay!; Sekanto region!; 

 Tami riv. I ; Sentani lake!; Ibaiso ! ; Jaga!; Timena riv.!; Rien- 

 jamur riv. and Garup riv., Torricelli mts. ! ; Eitape ; Berlinhafen ; 

 Kaiserin Augusta riv. ! ; westward from Finschhafen, in the 

 interior; Astrolabe bay; Stephansort; Sattelberg, + 800 m.; 

 Moroka, 700 m. ; Bara Bara; Rigo ; Vikaiku ; Pt. Moresby; 

 Merauke!; Digul riv.!; Lorentz riv.!; Van der Sande riv.!; 

 Went mts., 1050 m.!; Hellwig mts., 2000 m. !; Utakwa riv., 

 640 — 760 m. ; Setekwa riv. ; Mimika riv.) ; Frederik Hendrik isl. ! ; 

 Jobi isl.; Ferguson isl.; Murray isl, — Philippines; Pelawan. 



30. Rana celebensis (Schlg.). 



Liiiuiodytes celebensis (Schlegel), Peters, Monatsber. Akad. Berlin, 1872, p. 585. 

 1 Ratia celebensis Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., 1882, p. 70. 

 Rana celebensis v. Kampen, Weber's Zool. Ergebn., Leiden, IV, 1907, p. 395. 

 Rana celebensis Boulenger, Rec. Ind. Mus., XX, 1920, p. 169. 



Vomerine teeth in two short series extending a little behind 

 the level of the choanae. Head longer than broad ; snout 

 rounded or somewhat pointed, projecting, as long as the upper 

 eyelid; canthus rostralis strong; loreal region nearly vertical, 



