‘290 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (July, 1906. 
2, MEGALOPHRYS MONTANA, Kuhl 
M. montana; Boulenger, in Annandale and Robinson, Fasciculi 
Malayenses, Zool. i, p. 132; Annandale, ibid., p. 275; Weber in 
Ann. du Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, Suppl. ii, 1898, p. 5. 
The peculiar float surrounding the mouth of this tadpole 
has been described in detail by Prof. Max Weber and by myself. 
The examples from Kurseong agree very closely with those from 
Malaya and Java. I was at first inclined to suspect that the 
Indian specimens might be larve of Leptobrachium monticola and 
that the larvee of this form very closely resembled those of Megalo- 
from Indian territory ; but in many of my specimens the hind legs 
are well developed and show no trace of a web at the base of the 
toes. In one specimen the fore legs are also well developed, an 
the funnel has disappeared except for a ridge along the lower lip 
and a tubercle at each corner of the mouth; but the tail has 
hardly, begun to be absorbed. The funnel has already become 
almost ready to burst through the skin, The oldest specimen 
“agrees, so far as it is possible to say, with Boulenger’s var. aceras. 
3. RANA Ligpian, Giinther 
which in some specimens tend to be arranged in vertical bars; in 
some specimens a dull yellow, mid-dorsal streak at the base of the 
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tail. Dental formula i: ips very large, enclosing a consider- 
able cavity ; the lower lip with acomplete double fringe; a single 
ge at the base of the upper lip on either side; the beak in 
two parts, an upper and a lower, neither serrated. 
: : = y 
isan at the tip ; the lower fin disappearing some little distance 
e middle line, Dorsal surface uniform 
