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younger individuals, especially on the sacrum ; sides tubercular in 

 adults. Limbs rather short and stout. The first finger is slightly 

 shorter than the fourth, and the second is shorter than either ; the 

 third is about one-third longer than the fourth. From the vent to 

 the metatarsal tubercle is longer than the body. A fold along the 

 metatarsus, and a fringe along the fifth and first toes. A flattened 

 oblong metatarsal tubercle. Foot broadly webbed, the membrane 

 reaching to the extremities of all the toes ; fingers and toes slightly 

 dilated at their tips. 



Uniform dark brown (spirit specimen) above in adult, with faint 

 dark marbling on the back of the thighs, and a blackish line along 

 the supratympanic fold*;* sides paler, under surface yellowish ; lower 

 lip with from two to three broad black bands. In younger speci- 

 mens the marbling or reticulation on the thighs and the barring on 

 the lips are well marked. In some specimens the upper surface is 

 irregularly spotted with dark blackish brown ; and the majority of 

 specimens show broad dark bars of the same colour on the limbs, be- 

 coming indistinct with age. Blyth mentions a mesial white spot on 

 the lower jaw, corresponding to the symphysis and to the interval be- 

 tween two of the blackish bars. Three out of six have a yellow ver- 

 tebral line. 



This species appears to be closely allied to R. tigrina in its vome- 

 rine ridges and in the general form of its body, but approaches R. 

 Jcuhlii in its fang-like apophyses, almost hidden tympanum, and elon- 

 gate metatarsal tubercle. 



Blyth states that it is common in the Tenasserim valley, where it 

 is eaten by the Burmese. 



Rana liebigii, Giinther. 



Megalophrys gigas, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxii. p. 410, 

 xiii. p. 299, and xxiv. p. 717. 



Rana liebigii, 6th. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 157, pi. 28. fig. A. 



Hylorana erythrcea, Schlegel ; Theobald, Cat. Rept. As. Soc. 

 Museum, p. 84. 



Blyth's name has the priority ; but it is so inappropriate that I 

 prefer to retain 6iinther's, for which this much can be said, that 

 it will not give false notions regarding the size of a Frog which 

 does not attain to one-fourth of the dimensions of R.fusca or R. 

 tigrina. 



Blyth's type is 4" 6'" in length, the hiud leg 7" 3'", and the foot 

 from the heel 3" 4'" ; the breadth of the h'ead 2". The largest 

 specimen, referred by Theobald to H. erythrcea, is Blyth's type of 



