444 



7. Rana laticeps. 

 Rana laticeps, Bouleng. Cat. Batr. Sal. p. 20, pi. i, fig. 1. 



Vomerine teeth in two oblique oval groups behind the level of 

 the hinder edge of the choanse ; lower jaw with two bony promi- 

 nences in front, acute and directed backwards in the adult male. 

 Head large, triangular, especially in the adulb male ; snout short, 

 subacuminate, with rounded can thus rostralis ; interorbital space 

 broader than the upper eyelid ; tympanum scarcely distinct, two 

 thirds the size of the eye. Fingers moderate, blunt, first not ex- 

 tending beyond second ; toes moderate, nearly entirely webbed, the 

 tips dilated into very small disks ; a tarsal fold ; subarticular tu- 

 bercles well developed ; inner metatarsal tubercle elongate, blunt, 

 two thirds the length of the inner toe ; no outer tubercle. Tibio- 

 tarsal articulation reaching to between the eye and the end of the 

 snout. Tipper parts with small elongated warts and rounded 

 tubercles ; a fold above the tympanum. Brown above, indistinctly 

 marbled with darker ; a light dark-edged cross band between the 

 upper eyelids ; legs indistinctly cross-barred ; throat spotted with 

 brown. Male without vocal sacs. 



From snout to vent 2 inches. 



Hab. Khasi Hills ; recently obtained at Malacca. 



8. Rana khasiana. 



Pyxicephalus khasianus, Anders. J. A. S. B. xl, 1871, p. 23. 

 Rana khasiana, Bouleng. Cat. Batr. Sal. p. 34. 



" Body short and thick, legs of moderate length. Head short 

 and broad. Snout short and rounded ; no canthus rostralis ; nostrils 

 directed upwards and backwards, almost on the upper surface and 

 halfway between the eye and the snout. Eyes rather large and 

 prominent. Occiput much swollen. Tympanum invested by the 

 skin, but faintly visible, small, one half the diameter of the eye. 

 Skin in the groin full, smooth throughout, no trace of tubercles ; 

 fingers quite free ; three small tubercles on the palmar aspect, the 

 inner one the largest, elongated and simulating the shovel-like 

 tubercle of the metatarsus. The first and second fingers of nearly 

 equal length, about half shorter than the third ; the fourth about 

 one third shorter than the third. Thighs rather short, lower leg 

 little shorter than the thigh. Tarsus and foot the length of the 

 thigh and one half of the tibial portion. The body very little longer 

 than the distance between the vent and the heel. The shovel- 

 shaped (metatarsal) prominence laterally compressed, but not pro- 

 minent. Two apophyses on the lower jaw. The choanse are round, 

 more distinctly defined, but rather smaller, than the eustachian 

 tubes ; vomerine prominences placed transversely behind the choana} 

 and separated from each other by a narrow interval. Tongue rather 

 small, cordate and notched behind. Uniform brown above, faintly 

 barred on the thigh ; spotted with brown on the sides, chin, thontx, 

 and under surface of limbs." (Anderson.) 



Hab. Khasi Hills. 



