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Show 1875.] DR. A. GtTNTHER ON INDIAN REPTILES. 573 region flat, slanting. Eye of moderate size ; tympanum about one third the size of the eye. Limbs of moderate length ; disks rather small. Fingers without any web: the second rather longer than the first, and equal to the fourth, the third being the longest. Toes long, with a very short web. Metatarsal tubercle elongate. Skin of the back more or less tubercular, or nearly smooth. Choanae and Eustachian tubes rather narrow ; vomerine teeth in two very short series between the choanae. A free, pointed papilla in the middle of tbe tongue. Upper parts brownish olive, mottled with brown; a dark interocular cross band; legs barred as usual. Lower parts more or less marbled with brown, sometimes brown with white dots, sometimes uniform whitish; anterior and posterior sides of the thighs mottled with brown. Spec. A. Spec. B. millim. millim. Length of body 44 34 „ hind limb 86 64 ,, tarsus 14 11 „ fourth toe 25 19 Several specimens were collected by Lieut.-Col. Beddome in Malabar, and one in the Anamallays. IXALUS VARIABILIS (Gthr.). This species is not confined to Ceylon, but occurs in various parts of Southern India; it is common at Pycara. The variations of colour are endless, and frequently render the determination a task all the more difficult, as some of them approach closely the distribution of colours in other species. There are specimens with sub-crescentic brown bands on the back as in Polypedates microtympa-num ; others have round, milk-white spots about the lips, or on the sides, or all over the back. One variety has the back of a nearly uniform chocolate-brown, and a light-coloured band along each side. A whitish line along the canthus rostralis and superciliary margin is very frequent. It is possible that the specimens which Mr. Jerdon noticed as Phyllomedusa (?) wynaadensis belonged to this species. But in a genus in which the distinction of closely allied species is most difficult for the zoologist with the specimens before him, it is impossible to say to which of them a short, insufficient note, penned 25 years ago, refers. IXALUS GLANDULOSUS (Jerd.). The specimens we have received from Mr. Theobald of this species were identified by him as the Ixalus (?) glandulosa of Jerdon- and, as I think, very properly, the sides of the specimens being largely glandular. On the other hand, Col. Beddome has collected specimens of the same species, which were determined by Mr. Jerdon himself as his Phyllomedusa (?) tinniens. It will be difficult to decide from the original notes with which these names are accompa- |