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Show 1871.] DR. J. ANDERSON ON INDIAN REPTILES. 205 and other Batrachia. Similar- to these structures is the rough, almost spiny surface on the upper aspect of the first and second fingers, and on the inner margin of the third. The female, as in other Batrachia, has no trace of these structures. There is in some an indistinct trace of an external ear. The canthus rostralis is round, and the nostril is situated rather below it, halfway between the eye and the end of the snout, which is short and round in front. The gape is about the length of the head. The surface of the head is slightly concave, due to a feeble swelling of the rounded canthus rostralis. The whole upper surface and sides of the body is densely covered with small glandular warts, among which many large ones are interspersed, bearing one or two little sharp horny spines, which are generally broken across, giving rise to Theobald's so-called apical pore ; no large warts on the limbs; smooth below. The female is much less glandular than the male. The legs are rather short, as in Bufo. The first toe is very short; and the fifth is almost half the length of the fourth, and is very little shorter than the third; a fold of skin along the outside of the fifth toe. The fingers, as in Bufo, more slender in the female than in the male; the third finger longer than the fourth. The length of the body is equal to the distance between the vent and the base of the fourth toe. The mere circumstance that the toes are not webbed does not appear to be a sufficient reason for separating this Frog from the ordinary Toads, which it resembles in all its other characters. The specimen, the third that has been found, that has given rise to these remarks was procured on the Sengalula range, Darjeeling, at an altitude of 12,000 feet. HYLORANA NIGROVITTATA. Gymnodytes nigrovittatus, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, xxiv. pp. 718, 719. * Snout short, conical; canthus rounded; loreal region longitudinally concave; tympanum about one-fourth less than the long diameter of the eye. Vomerine teeth on two rounded eminences placed obliquely at some distance from the internal angle of the choance, converging, but widely separated. Tips of fingers and toes but slightly dilated. The first finger is slightly longer than the second and the distal phalanx shorter than the fourth; the third has its distal phalanx longer than the fourth. Feet rather small. Toes feebly webbed, with the exception of the fourth ; the fourth toe is one-half the length of the body. Two metatarsal tubercles, the inner one elongate, prominent, and the other rounded and conical. From the vent to the heel is very little less than the length of the body. Skin smooth, very finely tubercular on the sacral region and the upper surface of the legs and the back of the thighs around and external to the vent; a glandular fold from the eye, along the side of the back; an interrupted glandular fold from the angle of the mouth over the shoulder, but disappearing behind it; sometimes a few tubercles tending to a linear arrangement in front of the groin immediately below the dorsal line. |