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Show 1892.] FROGS IN THE INDIAN MUSEUM. 343 upper eyelid, and the longer legs ; its aspect, too, is different, to the eyes being normally placed, instead of being prominently turned upwards. Besides the original type, which was procured by Stoliczka at Murree, in the Himalayas, at an elevation of 6000 ft., there is a second specimen in the Indian Museum presented by Lieut. Newn-ham, and procured near Simla. The figure is taken from the former specimen, the type of the species. 2. RANA LIEBIGII, Giinth.; Boulenger, Lad. Rept. p. 445. This species has not been known to occur west of Nepal, whence came the type. There is, however, an example in the Indian Museum from Tavoy in Southern Burma, which extends its geographical range considerably beyond what has hitherto been known. 3. RANA FE^E, Boulenger, Ann. Mus. Genova, (2) v. 1887, p. 418, pi. iii.; id. Ind. Rept. p. 446. Among the Frogs of the Indian Museum I have found a second specimen of this species. This was procured at Hotha in Yunan by Dr. J. Anderson, but was apparently not described by him in his ' Scientific Results of the Yunan Expedition.' 4. RANA ASSAMENSIS, sp. n. (Plate XXIV. figs. 2, 2 a.) Vomerine teeth in two strong, slightly oblique, series between the choanse, commencing at the inner anterior corner; lower jaw not provided with bony prominences in the single specimen available for examination; head moderate, somewhat blunt and narrow; nostril equidistant from the eye and the tip of the snout; inter-orbital space very slightly broader than the upper eyelid ; canthus rostralis marked, loreal region concave ; tympanum very distinct, somewhat oval, barely half the diameter of the eye; fingers rather slender, the first and second nearly equal in length ; toes webbed to the tips, with the tips slightly swollen; subarticular tubercles well developed, inner metatarsal tubercle elongate, and about two-thirds the length of the inner toe ; no outer tubercle ; a tarsal fold present; the tibio-tarsal articulation reaches well beyond the tip of the snout; skin smooth above and below. Colour in spirit: above brown, the canthus rostralis and a patch behind the eye embracing the tympanum darker ; a dark line with white edges running from the eye on either side backwards to the sacrum, corresponding in position to the glandular lateral folds, but no trace of a glandular lateral thickening can be distinguished ; legs transversely barred ; below lighter, with darker spots on the lower Jaw- Length from snout to vent 70 millim. Allied to Rana andersonii, but the vomerine teeth commence at the anterior inner edge of the choanae, and the legs are considerably longer, the tibio-tarsal articulation reaching some way beyond the tip of the snout. |
