sasa 



sSb 



22 



EANID^. 



Rana liebigii, Gunth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860, p. 157, pi. 28. f. A ; id. 



Sept. Brit. Ind. p. 407 ; Anders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 198 ; 



Theobald, Proc. As. Soc. 1873, p. lllj Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 



1875, p. 567. 



sikkimensis, Jerdon, Proc. As. Soc. 1870, p. 83 ; Stoliczka, 



■ Proc. As. Soc. 1872, p. 131. 



ganimii, Anders. Journ. As. Soc. 1871, p. 21. 



? vicina, Stoliczka, Inc. cit. 



gig-as, Peters, Sitzh. Ges. nat. Fr. Berl. 1881, p. 87, 



Yomerine teeth in two small oblique groups exteuding a little 

 beyond the hinder edge of the choaniE. Head moderate, much 

 depressed ; snout very short, rounded ; canthus rostralis indistinct ; 

 interorbital space nearly as broad as the upper eyelid ; tympa- 

 num rather small, hidden. Pingers moderate, first not extending 

 beyond second ; toes moderate, truncate, entirely webbed ; subar- 

 ticular tubercles of fingers and toes not much developed; inner 

 metatarsal tubercle oval, little prominent ; no outer tubercle. The 

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

 articiilation reaches the tip of the snout or beyond. Skin smooth 

 above, seldom warty ; a strong fold of the skin above the tympanum, 

 and another, sometimes indistinct, uniting the hinder edges of the 

 upper eyelids ; a narrow glandular fold on each side of the back. 

 Brown above ; a black line on the canthus rostralis and on the 

 temporal region ; lateral folds black-margined ; legs indistinctly 

 barred across. Male with two internal vocal sacs. 



The breeding male is remarkable hy the extreme thickness of its 

 fore arms, the inner sides of which are studded with small conical 

 black spines, each supported on a rounded base produced by a 

 swelling of the skin. A large patch of similar spines exists on each 

 side of the breast ; the whole inner side of the inner metacarpal 

 tubercle and of the first and second digits, and the base of the 

 third digit also, bear similar spines, but they are closer together. 



Himalayas. 



Breeding male. 



