Horváth Géza (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 2. (Budapest 1904)
Méhely, L.: Investigations on Paraguayan Batrachians
L. Y. MÉH ELY One specimen from Villa Sana, collected in April 1903; adult male, its length 42'5 mm. from snout to vent : strictly agreeing with HENSEL'S excellent description. Habit of a stout Rana. Tongue large, oviform, slightly longer than broad, much broader behind than in its anterior part, slightly nicked and free behind. Vomerine teeth in two slightly arched series behind the choanae, distinctly separated from each other and laterally extending below the centre of the latter. Head depressed, slightly broader than long. Snout rounded, with not much prominent upper lip. longer than the greatest orbital diameter, once and a balf as long as the diameter of the eye ; canthus rostralis none; loreal region oblique: nostril a little nearer to the eye than the diameter of the latter, much nearer to the tip of the snout than to the eye. Interorbital space narrower than the upper eyelid; tympanum very distinct, two thirds the diameter of the eye. Fingers moderate, free, first much longer than second, the latter equal with the fourth ; an oval inner and a larger roundish 01 on its fore-edge slightly emarginated outer metacarpal tubercle ; subarticular tubercles strong, subconical ; along the metacarpals some minute tubercles, viz. two on the first, second and third, but only one on the fourth metacarpal. Hind limbs short and stout. Toes moderate (shorter than those of Leptodactylux mystaceus SPIX), without any fringe ; subarticular tubercles as on the hand ; two metatarsal tubercles, the inner oval, slightly compressed, the outer smaller and round; along the metatarsals distinct, but not very projninent series of small tubercles; tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the posterior corner of the eye. Skin smooth, with distinct pores, each surrounding with a whitish halo on the upper surface of tibia, tarsus and metatarsus; flanks with slightly prominent oval glands; a fold above the tympanum curved to the arm ; a distinct ventral discoidal fold; aver y slight trace of a tarsal fold. Male without external vocal sacs and without spine-bearing tubercles on the first digit. Coloration. Violet-rose above (in spirit), only the flanks, the upper surface of the forearm and outside of the hind limbs greyish, with a violascent breath (pl. XHI, fig. II). In a distance behind the upper eyelids a deep black streak on each side of the back ; flanks with longitudinal black spots, arranged in two rows, some of these spots enclosed in a greyish-white halo. A black band extends from the tip of the snout through the eye to the arm, enclosing the nostril and surrounding the upper part of the tympanum ; upper lip broadly edged with a blackishbrown band; between this marginal and the canthal band runs a dirtywhite stripe to the arm. Tympanum chestnut-brown, bordered in front with a small crescent-shaped white line and with a larger one behind,
