346 N. Annandai^e : Aquatic animals from Tibet. [Voi,. II, '08.] 



above 6,000 feet in the Himalayas and common in the Simla 

 district and in Kumaon, I have found this tadpole with the 

 adult of the species to which I assign it both in Kumaon and 

 in the Simla hills : — 



Tadpole of Rana vicina, Stoliczka — 



Total length (specimen without legs) 43 mm.; length of tail 

 30 mm. ; greatest breadth of body 8 mm. ; greatest depth of tail 

 8 mm. ; of caudal muscles 5 mm. Head and body moderately flat ; 

 eyes far apart ; nostrils nearer the eyes than the tip of the snout ; 

 eyes and nostrils dorsal; spiracle sinistral, pointing upwards and 

 backwards ; vent opening on the right side ; caudal fin commen- 

 cing in front of the base of the hind limbs, continued round the 

 tail to the anus, sharply pointed at the tip. Lips very large, con- 

 siderably larger than those of the tadpole of R. pleskii, resembling 

 those of R. liehigii in extent ; the lower lip fringed completely, the 

 upper lip only at the corners; both jaws serrated; upper jaw in 



two parts, without enlarged teeth at the sides ; dental formula 

 1 



7~ ; a minute, round papilla, bearing horny teeth, exists on 



2 

 either side between the uppermost row and the first of the double 

 rows on the upper lip. Colour brownish, more or less distinctly 

 mottled and spotted, paler below. 



The dental formula of the tadpole of R. liebigii (Annandale, 



3 



Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1906^ p. 290) is -^ ; otherwise the larva 



2 

 of this species is much like that of R. vicina. 



