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Show 210 DR. J. ANDERSON ON INDIAN REPTILES. [Feb. 21, Dr. Stoliczka describes the species as of very active habits, and states that he found it tolerably common in the forests on the Penang Hill, about 1000 feet above the sea. POLYPEDATES ANNECTENS, Jerdon, Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 1870, pp. 83, 84. Habit moderately slender. Head rather broad, slightly depressed ; snout short and rounded; canthus distinct rounded; loreal region nearlv vertical, slightly concave; nostrils near extremity of snout; distance between the eyes as long as the snout; tympanum distinct, about one half the long diameter of the eye. Vomerine teeth on two prominent rounded processes, close to the internal margin of the choanae, with a narrow interspace between them. Tongue cordate, almost entire behind, or with a very faint notch. Disks rather well developed. Limbs of moderate length. Fingers with a distinct membrane at their base; first finger small, little more than one-half the length of the fourth ; second about one-third shorter than the third; fourth a fourth shorter than the third. From the vent to the metatarsal tubercle is a little longer than the body; a short oblong metatarsal tubercle. Toes one-half webbed ; die first toe small, one-half the length of the second. A strong glandular fold from the eye over the tympanum to the shoulder, and prolonged slightly beyond the latter. Smooth above, densely granular below, and on the under surface of the thighs. Above uniform dark greenish violet; a very narrow pale line from above the shoulder, prolonged downwards and backwards on to the side, expanding in its latter half into the yellow of the abdomen, with a few intensely black spots, in linear series, on the sides, in and before the groin ; a broad dusky band below the anterior half of the narrow white line. Under surface and back of the thighs bright yellow, the latter with large black spots; a few on the anterior margin of the tibia and tarsus. Length 1" 7'" ; hind limb 2" 7'". Hab. Khasi Hills. Dr. Jerdon observes of this species that it forms a link between this genus and Rhacophorus, having the basal portion of the fingers webbed ; but the fingers of P. pleurostidus and P. reticulatus have the membrane quite as well developed as in the present form. The partial prolongation of its supratympanic fold on to the sides of the body would seem to indicate that its affinities were more in the direction of Hylorana. RHACOPHORUS MAXIMUS, Gthr.; Giinther, I. c. p. 435. This species appears to be common throughout North-eastern Assam, and southwards to the Khasi Hills, but to be rather scarce in Sikkim ; for out of a large collection of Frogs from thence I have only obtained one specimen, while in collections from Eastern Assam it is one of the prevalent forms. It is associated in the Khasi Hills with R. maculatus. Its extension as far east as Afghanistan seems doubtful. The specimen which Gunther refers to as coming from Afghanistan probably had a similar history to the specimen of |