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Show 572 DR. A. GUNTHER ON INDIAN REPTILES. [Nov. 16, middle of the tongue*. Upper parts light brownish olive, or pinkish, with some very obscure spots; a dark cross band between the eyes; a black band along the canthus rostralis, widening behind the eye, so as to cover the whole tympanum ; legs obscurely barred ; anterior and posterior sides of the thighs finely mottled with black. Spec. A. Spec. B. millim. millim. Length of body 55 45 hind limb 115 85 ,, tarsus 11 13 fourth toe 30 24 Lieut.-Col. Beddome has collected specimens of this frog in Malabar and Travancore, in the Anamallays, and at Sevagherry. POLYPEDATES BRACHYTARSUS, sp. n. Closely allied to P. beddomii, but with a much shorter tarsus. Snout flat, somewhat pointed, with indistinct canthus rostralis ; loreal region flat, slanting. Eye rather large; tympanum not quite half as large as the eye. Limbs of moderate length. Fingers without any web, and with moderately developed disks : the first, second, and fourth nearly equal in length, the third being the longest. 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 a small indistinct tubercle. Skin of the back with short longitudinal folds; a glandular curved fold from behind the orbit, above the tympanum, to the armpit. Choanse and Eustachian tubes of moderate size ; vomerine teeth in two short oblique series. A free, pointed papilla in the middle of the tongue. Upper parts brown, mottled with darker; a broad, whitish, well-defined longitudinal band along the middle of the back to the end of the snout; an interocular brown band slightly encroaches upon the white band. Upper sides of the legs barred as usual; anterior and posterior sides of the thighs finely mottled with brown. Spec. A. Spec. B. millim. millim. Length of body 55 38 hind limb 99 58 „ tarsus 15 10 ,, fourth toe 26 17 Two specimens from Lieut.-Col. Beddome's collection-one from the Anamallays, the other from Sevagherry. POLYPEDATES BREVIPALMATUS, sp. n. Habit similar to that of P. maculatus. Snout short, flat, obtuse, with indistinct canthus rostralis; loreal * I do not find that the presence of this papilla has been noticed before, although it is present in some of the other species* of Polypedates and Ixalus ; it is absent in P. maculatus. I do not know its function. |