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Show 1881.] AND FROGS FROM SINGAPORE. 219 Rostral well developed; prsefrontals more than half as large as postfront Is, the suture between the former but little shorter than that bet ;en the latter. Vertical large, pentagonal, the anterior margin c< /ex, lateral edges converging slightly behind, posterior margins meeting at a right angle. Each occipital is both longer and broader than the vertical, and is rounded behind. I well developed, about as high as broad. Two (or three) •aeoculars, the upper double the size of the lower; two postoculars; 3 2 + 3, the upper anterior temporal shield in contact with •oth postoculars; two elongate temporals along the outer side of -ch occipital. Upper labials 8, the seventh excluded from the [ui of the hp, the fourth and fifth (or on one side the fifth only) he orbit. ^ T w o pairs of chin-shields, the posterior but than the anterior. elds 175; anal undivided; subcaudals in 50 pairs, scale. eleven dark-brown cros3 bands or large trans-and four on the tail, all having very being, where widest, about half the latter are slightly spotted and there is a broad dark cross band orbits on the front part of the •^turned below the eye on " pointed elongated v band on the are is also an . ' whitish, ">nd or |