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Show 198 DR. J. ANDERSON ON INDIAN REPTILES. [Feb. 21, 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 taint 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 specimens the marbling or reticulation ou 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, becoming indistinct with age. Blyth mentions a mesial white spot on the lower jaw, corresponding to the symphysis and to the interval between two of the blackish bars. Three out of six have a yellow vertebral line. This species appears to be closely allied to R. tigrina in its vomerine ridges and in the general form of its body, but approaches R. kuhlii in its fang-like apophyses, almost hidden tympanum, and elongate metatarsal tubercle. Blyth states that it is common in the Tenasserim valley, where it is eaten by the Burmese. Length of body. 6" 4"' 5 5 4 11 4 6 3 8 3 0 Length of hind leg, 8" 11'" 8 5 8 9 6 11 5 11 5 1 R A N A LIEBIGII, Gunther. Megalophrys gigas, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxii. p. 410, xiii. p. 299, and xxiv. p. 717. Rana liebigii, Gth. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 157, pl. 28. fig. A. Hylorana erythreea, 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 Giinther'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. tiyrina. Blyth's type is 4" 6'" in length, the hind leg 7" 3'", and the foot from the heel 3" 4'" ; the breadth of the head 2". The largest specimen, referred by Theobald to H. erythreea, is Blyth's type of |