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Show 1897.] REPTILES AND BATRACHIANS OP CELEBES. 203 2. Two metatarsal tubercles, inner large. Terminal expansions of fingers more than half the diameter of the eye. 18. Callula baleata. Terminal expansions of fingers not half the diameter of the eye. 19. Callula pulchra. B. Tips of fingers not dilated ; a large (parotoid) gland behind the eye. Supraobital bony ridges produced on the occiput. 20. Bufo biporcatus. Supraorbital bony ridges not produced on the occiput; a thick orbito-tympanic bony ridge 21. Bufo celebensis. REPTILIA. EMYDOSAUBIA. CROCODILIDcE. 1. CROCODILUS POROSUS, Schn. Kema. One skull. Gorontalo, Macassar (Meyer). Pampanna, S. Celebes (Weber). CHELONLA. TESTUDINIDCE. 2. CYCLEMYS AMBOINENSIS, Daud. One specimen : Kema. Four specimens : Macassar. Manado, Macassar (Meyer). Macassar (Beccari). Macassar, Panjana, S. Celebes (Weber). 3. TESTUDO PORSTENII, Schleg. & Midi. One adult and one young : Buol. Mt. Boliohoeto, near Salamatta, N. Celebes (Meyer). The type specimen is from Gilolo. Shell of young with strougly serrated anterior and posterior borders, yellowish above and below, with small blackish-brown spots on the dorsal and marginal shields, and a large blotch on each abdominal shield. LACEBTILIA. GECRONIDCE. 4. GYMNODACTYLUS JELLESMCE, sp. n. (Plate VII. fig. 1.) Head large, depressed, oviform; snout longer than the diameter of the orbit, which equals its distance from the ear-opening; forehead concave; ear-opening large, oval, slightly oblique, nearly vertical, measuring about half the diameter of the eye. Limbs rather elongate ; digits strong, slightly depressed at the base, strongly compressed in the remaining portion; the basal phalanx with well-developed transverse plates inferiorly. Head granular, the granules largest on the snout, with very small tubercles on the occipital and temporal regions; rostral nearly twice as broad as deep, with M-shaped upper border, with or without median cleft |