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Show 1875.] DR. A. GUNTHER ON INDIAN REPTILES. 571 bled with black, the black spots enclosing a number of small whitish dots. Legs and toes with black white-dotted cross bars. Lower parts light greenish, irregularly marbled with brown. millim. Length of body . 64 ,, third finger 21 ,, hind limb 115 ,, tarsus 19 ,, fourth toe 37 One specimen from Khassya in Mr. Jerdon's collection. POLYPEDATES JERDONII, sp. n. Snout broad, depressed, extremely short and obtuse, with indistinct canthus rostralis, and flat, slanting loreal region. Eye of moderate size; tympanum very small, much smaller than one of the digital disks. Limbs of moderate length; disks large, nearly equally large on the fingers and toes. Fingers conspicuously webbed at the base: second and fourth equal in length, a little longer than the first, and shorter than the third. Toes two thirds webbed ; one ovate metatarsal tubercle. Skin nearly smooth above, granular below. Choanae and Eustachian tubes narrow; vomerine teeth in two oblique series between the choanae. No free papilla on the tongue. Upper parts brownish grey; forehead and an irregular broad band on each side whitish. Whitish below, throat with some brownish spots ; anterior and posterior sides of the femur nearly colourless. Dark bars across the legs irregular and sometimes confluent. millim. Length of body 48 „ hind limb 68 ,, tarsus 11 „ fourth toe 22 Two specimens from Darjeeling, in Mr. Jerdon's collection. POLYPEDATES BEDDOMII, sp. n. (Plate LXIII. fig. B.) Habit similar to that of P. maculatus. Snout flat, moderately long, rather obtuse, with distinct canthus rostralis. Loreal region flat, slanting. Eye rather large; tympanum at least half as large as the eye. Limbs strong and rather long * second finger rather shorter than first, which nearly equals the fourth; third longest of all. Fingers without any web, but with the disks well developed. Toes two thirds webbed, the cutaneous fold reaching to the disks, except in the fourth toe, in which it extends to the antepenultimate joint only. Metatarsus with an indistinct, elongate tubercle. Skin of the back with short longitudinal folds; a glandular curved fold from behind the orbit above the tympanum, to the armpit. Choanae and Eustachian tubes rather small; vomerine teeth in two short, scarcely oblique series, between the choanae. A long, free, pointed, conical papilla on the |