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Show 568 DR. A. GtTNTHER ON INDIAN REPTILES. [Nov. 16, Brownish, marbled with darker, sometimes with a broad yellow vertebral band. Limbs with cross bars ; hinder part of the thighs black, with white vermiculated lines and spots. Lower parts whitish, throat sometimes marbled with brown. Several specimens were collected by Lieut.-Col. Beddome in Malabar. The body of the largest is 60 millims. long ; length of hind limb 103 millims. RANA PYGM^A, sp. n. Similar in habit to a young Rana kuhlii. Head much depressed, with very short, rounded snout; canthus rostralis absent; eyes prominent, obliquely directed forwards. Skin smooth, with a few irregular folds behind the head. Tympanum hidden ; inner nares and Eustachian tubes small. Vomerine teeth in two short groups close together, behind the inner nostrils. Limbs short; fingers and toes short, the latter half-webbed. One metatarsal tubercle. Upper parts nearly uniformly black or blackish brown, the lower dull yellow. A minute species, the body of an adult female with mature ova in the oviduct being only 25 millims. long; length of hind limb 31 millims. Several specimens were collected by Lieut.-Col. Beddome in Malabar. RANA HEXADACTYLA (Less.). The specimens named Rana vittata by Lieut.-Col. Beddome are the young of this species. Three other young specimens were presented to tbe Museum by Mr. Jerdon under the name of " Pyxicephalus pluvialis, Jerd." XENOPHRYS MONTICOLA (Gthr.). " Xenophrys gigas, Jerd.," is the adult of this species. DlPLOPELMA. In Mr. Jerdon's collection there are specimens which he has identified with the two species formerly named by him " Engystoma rubrum" and " Engystoma carnaticum." Those to which he has applied the former name are, in my opinion, the same as D. ornatum (D. and B., Gthr.). The others, four in number, are from Assam ; and two of them I am inclined to refer likewise to D. ornatum, whilst the other two are identical with D. pulchrum (Hallow.). NANNOPHRYS CEYLONENSIS (Gthr.). Trachycephalus ceylanicus, Ferguson, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1875, vol. xv., is identical with this species. ANSONIA ORNATA, sp. n. (Plate LXIII. fig. A.) Anterior half of the back finely tubercular, the remainder smooth. Tympanum very distinct, about half the size of the eye. Fingers free, the first much shorter than the second. Toes short, broadly |