2. EAITA. 21 



indistinctly cross-barred ; throat spotted with brown. Male without 

 vocal sac. From snout to vent 47 millim. 

 India. 



a. Many spec.: S ,'^,'h^r., Khassya. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. 



b. Hgr. Bengal. Col. Beddome [P.]. (As Polt/- 



pedates ciffinis.) 



8. Rana yunnaneiisis. 



Rana yunnanensis, Anders. Anat. Zool. Res, Yunnan, p. 839, pi. 78. 

 f. 2. 



Vomerine teeth but little developed, and in two short oblique 

 ridges on the inner side of the choanse. Head moderate ; snout 

 short, somewhat pointed ; tympanum rather indistinct, half the size 

 of the eye. Fingers moderate, first not extending beyond second ; 

 toes not entirely webbed, slightly dilated at the tips ; inner meta- 

 tarsal tubercle small, laterally compressed, sharp-edged, crescentic. 

 The hind limb being carried forwards along the body, the metatarsal 

 tubercle reaches a little beyond the snout. Upper surfaces densely 

 covered with round warty tubercles, each surmounted by a small 

 black horny granule ; a glandular fold from the eye over the tym- 

 panum to the shoulder. Uniform greenish olive-brown, with obscure 

 dark bands from the orbit to the lip and on the upper surface of the 

 limbs ; under surface brownish yellow, reticulately spotted with 

 deep brown. 



Hotha. 



9. Rana guttulata. (Plate II.) 



Rana guttulata, Bouleng. Ann. Mag. N. H. (5) vii. p. 361. 



Vomerine teeth in two small groups behind the level of the 

 hinder edge of the choanse. Head rather large, depressed ; snout 

 short, rounded, with rounded canthus rostralis ; loreal region con- 

 cave ; interorbital space as broad as or slightly broader than the 

 upper eyelid ; tympanum small, hidden. Fingers rather short, first 

 not extending as far as second ; toes rather short, broadly webbed ; 

 tips of fingers and toes dilated into small disks ; subarticular tuber- 

 cles small ; a blunt, oval, inner metatarsal tubercle ; no outer one. 

 The hind limb being carried forwards along the body, the tibio- 

 tarsal articulation roaches the eye. Skin finely granular above ; a 

 fold from the eye to the shoulder ; a circular flat gland below each 

 thigh on its inner side. Dark brown above, minutely dotted with 

 yellowish ; whitish beneath, immaculate. Male without vocal sacs. 



Madagascar. 



a-c, d-e. S 2 • S.E. Betsileo. Mr. Bartlett [0.]. (Types.) 



10. Rana liebigii. 

 Megalophrys gigas, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. xxiii. p. 299. 



