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Show 1887.] PROF. BELL ON HAPLOCERUS MONTANUS. 579 HYLA STEPHENI. (Plate LI. fig. I.) Near H. arborea. Tongue subcircular, slightly nicked, and free behind. Vomerine teeth in two slightly oblique series between the choanse. Head a little larger thau that of H. arborea, broader than long ; snout rounded, shorter than the diameter of the orbit; canthus rostralis distinct; loreal region slightly concave; interorbital space as broad as the upper eyelid ; tympanum distinct, half the diameter of the eye. Fingers with a short web at the base ; no projecting rudiment of pollex ; toes hardly two-thirds webbed; disks a little smaller than the tympanum ; subarticular tubercles moderate ; inner metatarsal tubercle large and very prominent, oval, about two-thirds the length of the inner toe; a fold along the inner edge of the tarsus. The tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the tympanum. Tibia not half the length of the head and body. Skin smooth above; lower surfaces, throat of male included, granular. Colour varying from greyish or brownish to green, with darker, blackish-edged permanent symmetrical insuliform spots on the body and cross bands on the limbs; a dark brown streak from nostril to eye; lower parts whitish, lower belly and limbs carneous ; sides of thighs carneous. Iris dark bronzy brown. Male with an external subgular vocal sac. From snout to vent 35 millim. EXPLANATION OF PLATE LI. Fig. 1. Hi/la stepheni. Upper and lower view. 2. Hyla arborea, var. japonica. December 6, 1887. Prof. W. H. Flower, C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. ' Mr. Howard Saunders, F.Z.S., exhibited, on behalf of the Rev. H. A. Macpherson, a specimen of Saxicola isabellina, shot on Nov. 11 near Allonby, in Cumberland, being the first recorded occurrence of this species in Great Britain or Western Europe. Prof. Bell exhibited the integumentary glands of a Rocky-Mountain Goat (Haplocerus montanus), which had been taken from either side of the middle line just behind the horns. The glands having, unfortunately, been dried, no information could be given as to their structure, but it was thought advisable to put their presence and position on record. The following papers were read :- |
