54 RANID^. 



e 

 tubercle. The hind limb being carried forwards along the hod3% the 

 tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the tip of the snout, or somewhat 

 beyond. Skin with narrow, interrupted glandular folds along the 

 back. Light brown above, with rounded, sometimes confluent dark 

 brown spots ; sometimes a light vertebral line or a broad unspotted 

 zone along the middle of the back ; a dark temporal spot ; beneath 

 immaculate. Male with two internal vocal sacs. 

 S. Africa. 



a-c. 2 & yg. South Africa. 



d-h. 2 . South Africa. Sir A. Smith [P.]. 



i-k. 5 . Cape of Good Hope. Sir A. Smith [P.]. 



l-m.S' Kaffraria. F. P. M. Weale, Esq. [P.]. 



71. Rana fasciata. 



Rana fasciata, Giinth. Cat. p. 20. 

 Strongylopus fasciatus, (Boic) TscJmdi, Batr. p. 79 ; Steind. Novara, 



Am2)h. p. 21. 

 Rana fasciata, Dum. ^- Bibr. p. 389 ; Smith, III. S. Afr., Rept. pi. 78. 



f 1. 



delalandii, Bell, Zool. Beaf/lc, Rept. p. 31, pi. 16. f 1. 



Strongylopus oxyrhyuchus, Fitzirig. Sitzb. Ac. Wien, xlii. p. 414. 



Vomerine teeth in two long, nearly straight series, transversely on 

 a level with the front edge of the choanae. Head moderate ; snout 

 long, rather pointed ; interorbital space as broad as the upper 

 eyelid ; tympanum distinct, half the size of the eye. Fingers 

 slender, fir.st not extending beyond second ; toes very slender, 

 fourth at least as long as the distance between vent and tympanum, 

 webbed at the base ; subarticular tuljercles of fingers and toes 

 moderate ; inner metatarsal tubercle small, oval, little prominent ; 

 no outer tubercle. The hind limb being carried forwards along the 

 body, the tibio-tarsal articulation reaches much beyond the ti]) of 

 the snout. Skin of the back with rather indistinct longitudinal 

 folds. Light brown above, with four or six longitudinal dark 

 brown stripes on the back ; a dark temporal spot ; beneath im- 

 maculate. Male with two internal vocal sacs. 



S. Africa. 



a. 2- S. Africa. C. Darwin, Esq. [P.]. (Ori- 



ginal specimen of Prof BeU's 

 description and figure.) 



b, c. Several spec. : S. Africa. Sir A. Smith [P.]. 



d. 5 . Kaflfraria. F. P. M. Weale, Esq. [P.]. 



72. Eana macrodactyla. 



Hjdarana macrodnctyla, Giinth. Cat. p. 72, pi. ii. f. C. 

 Ilyloraua macrodactyla, (xiinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 424; Stoliczha, 

 Proc. As. Soc. 1872, p. 104. 



