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distinct disks; first finger extending slightly beyond second, 

 which is shorter than fourth ; toes almost entirely webbed, 

 the web reaching all the disks except fourth, the second and 

 third ones however only at their outer borders; two phalanges 

 of fourth toe free ; outer metatarsals separated nearly to the 

 base; subarticular tubercles strong; an inner, oblong, and an 

 outer, smaller, round metatarsal tubercle; no tarsal fold; the 

 heel reaches the eye or between eye and nostril; tibia half 

 the length of head and body or a little shorter; when the 

 hind limbs are folded at right angles to the body, the heels 

 are feebly overlapping. 



Finely granulate above; a moderately broad dorsolateral 

 fold ; back, sides of the body and hind limbs with or without 

 scattered small warts; a fold from below the eye to the shoulder, 

 sometimes followed by one or two glandules; smooth below. 



Upper parts greyish or reddish brown ; sides of head and 

 sometimes of body also blackish, darker in young specimens 

 than in older ones; the dorsolateral folds may be a little 

 lighter than the back; warts of back and cross-bars on the 

 hind limbs black; border of the upper lip unspotted, usually 

 white; the glandular fold behind it white; beneath white, 

 sometimes powdered with brownish, especially on throat and 

 breast; usually a pair of dark spots between the shoulders 

 and an oblique bar on the upper arm. From snout to vent 80 mm, 



Male with humeral glands and internal vocal sacs. 



Very closely allied and perhaps identical with R. papiia, 

 from which, however, it seems to be distinct by broader 

 dorsolateral folds. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Humboldt bay!; Pt. Moresby; 

 Lorentz riv. ! ; Mimika riv.). — ? Thursday isl. '); northern 

 Queensland. 



32. Rana kreffti Blgr. 



Rana krefftii Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Rrit. Mus., 1882, p. 64, pi. Ill, fig. 2. 

 Rana krefftii Boulenger, Transact. Zool. Soc. London, XII, pt. 2, 1886, p. 52. 

 Rana novae-britanniae Werner, Zool. Anz., XVlI, 1894, p. 155. 

 Rana novae-britanniae (part.) Werner, Mitt. Mus. f. Naturk. Berlin, I, 1900, 



p. Ill, fig. 42. 

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

 Rana krefftii Boulenger, Rec. Ind. Mus., XX, 1920, p. 186. 



1) ^Rana paptta {Hylorana Ddniclii Steind.)", F. Miiller, Verh. nalurf. Ges. 

 Basel, VII, 1885, p. 670. 



