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Show 1899.] AND BATRACHIANS FROM EOKIEN. 167 orbit; canthus rostralis very obtuse; loreal region very oblique, slightly concave; nostril nearer the eye than the end of the snout; interorbital space a little narrower than the upper eyelid; tympanum hidden. Fingers rather short, feebly swollen at the tips, first extending considerably beyond second ; subarticular tubercles moderately developed. Toes rather short, broadly webbed to the tips, whicb are dilated into small but very distinct disks; sub-articular tubercles moderate, oval; inner metatarsal tubercle feebly prominent, elongate, measuring two thirds its distance from the tip of the inner toe; no outer metatarsal tubercle; a feeble-dermal fold along the inner edge of the tarsus. The tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the eye; tibia about half length of head and body. Skin of upper parts granular or shagreened, with numerous warts, which may be small and subcorneal or large and elongate on the back; these warts may bear black horny spinules ; a strong fold across the head, connecting the posterior borders of the upper eyelids ; a very strong ridge from the eye to the shoulder; no glandular dorso-lateral fold ; lower parts smooth. Dark olive or blackish brown above ; lips with darker vertical bars ; limbs with more or less distinct black cross-bars ; hinder side of thighs black, with more or less distinct lighter marblings ; lower parts whitish, throat and lower surface of limbs spotted or marbled with blackish. Male with small internal vocal sacs; during the breeding-season the fore limbs are more or less strongly thickened, and the breast and inner side of the three inner fingers armed with small black horny spines. From snout to vent, c? 105 millim., § 103. This species is exactly intermediate between R. Jculdii and R. liebigii. 3. RANA JAPONICA Blgr. A single young specimen. 4. RANA LATOUCHII, sp. n. (Plate XIX. fig. 1.) Vomerine teeth in two oblique oval groups in the middle between the choane. Head as long as broad ; snout as long as the diameter of the orbit, obtusely pointed, projecting beyond the mouth, with distinct canthus and feebly oblique, slightly concave lores ; nostril nearer the end of the snout than the eye; interorbital space as broad as the upper eyelid ; tympanum very distinct, three fifths or two thirds the diameter of the eye. Fingers slender, feebly swollen at the end, first extending beyond second; subarticular tubercles very stroug. Toes slender, two-thirds webbed, with swollen tips and strong subarticular tubercles ; inner metatarsal tubercle small, oval; a very prominent, round, outer metatarsal tubercle. Tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the anterior border of the eye ; tibia half as long as head and body. Upper parts finely granular ; a very prominent, very broad dorso-lateral glandular fold, almost deserving to be termed a parotoid, its width above the shoulder at least as great as that of the upper eyelid |
