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42. Rana labialis Blgr. 



r Polypedates raniceps Peters, Monatsber. Akad. Berlin, 1871, p. 580. 

 } Polypedates raniceps^ Peters, Ann. Mus. Genova, III, 1872, p. 44, pi. VI, figs. 3, 3^. 

 Rana labialis Boulenger, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (5) XIX, 1887, p. 345, pi. X, fig. i. 

 Rana labialis Flower, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1896, p. 903, pi. XLV, 



fig. 3 (tadpole). 

 Rana labialis Flower, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1899, p. 896. 

 Rana labialis Boulenger, Vert. Fauna Malay Penins., Kept, and Batr., London, 



1912, p. 242. 

 Rana labialis Annandale, Mem. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, VI, 191 7, p- 148, pi. VI, 



fig. 5 (tadpole). 

 Rana chalconota (part.) Boulenger, Rec. Ind. Mus., XX, 1920, p. 201. 



Vomerine teeth in two oblique series between the posterior 

 borders of the choanae. Head longer than broad; snout pointed, 

 projecting, as long as or somewhat longer than the upper 

 eyelid; canthus rostralis angular, straight; loreal region slightly 

 oblique, concave ; nostril much nearer to the end of the 

 snout than to the eye; interorbital space as broad as or broader 

 than the upper eyelid ; tympanum very distinct, from ^/4 to 

 equal to the width of the eye. Disks of three outer fingers 

 large, nearly circular, of third finger '/.^ to -/g the diameter 

 of the tympanum, of first finger and of toes smaller; second 

 finger extending distinctly beyond first, but shorter than fourth ; 

 fifth toe longer than third ; toes ^/^ to entirely webbed ; outer 

 metatarsals separated nearly to the base ; subarticular tubercles 

 well developed; inner metatarsal tubercle small, the outer 

 one rather indistinct, rarely absent; the heel reaches tip of 

 snout or a little beyond ; tibia a little more than half the 

 length of head and body. 



Finely granulate above; a dorsolateral fold, sometimes distinct 

 only anteriorly ; a fold from below the eye to the shoulder, 

 followed by one or two glandules ; back sometimes with some 

 large warts ; smooth beneath, or posterior part of belly and 

 lower surface of thighs granular; when the hind limbs are 

 folded at right angles to the body, the heels are strongly 

 overlapping. 



Bright green or bronze brown, with or without some darker 

 spots above, the colour in life being rapidly changeable (brown 

 or purple in spirit), sides dark green or dark brown, with 

 rather indistinct darker spots; tympanum chestnut-brown; a 

 white or light golden streak on the upper lip, extending to 

 the shoulder and followed by a spot of the same colour; 



