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Show 1897.] REPTILES AND BATRACHIANS OF CELEBES. 233 second; toes moderate, nearly entirely webbed; tips of fingers and toes dilated into small but well-developed disks ; subarticular tubercles well developed; inner metatarsal tubercle small, oval; a very distinct outer metatarsal tubercle. The tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the tip of the snout. A very broad and very prominent glandular lateral fold ; below it several large, prominent, oval glands ; a glandular fold from beneath the eye to the shoulder, followed by a strong glandule. Chestnut-brown above, sides of head and body rather darker ; a light streak along the upper lip ; limbs with dark cross-bars; hinder side of thighs brown-and-white marbled : whitish beneath, throat and breast closely speckled with brown. Male with internal vocal sacs and an oval flat gland at the base of the arm. From snout to vent 47 millim. This species was described by Peters from a single specimen from Manado. The specimen in the British Museum is without a locality. 12. BANA MACROPS, sp. n. (Plate XVI. fig. 1.) Vomerine teeth in two very small oblique groups between the choanae. Head rather large, as long as broad; snout rounded, with sharp canthus : loreal region nearly vertical, concave ; nostril a little nearer the tip of the snout than the eye; latter very large, diameter of the orbit greater than the length of the snout; interorbital space as broad as the upper eyelid; tympanum distinct, half the diameter of the eye. Fingers rather slender, first extending as far as second, tips dilated into well-developed disks; toes two-thirds webbed, the terminal disks smaller than those of the fingers; subarticular tubercles moderate; a small oval inner metatarsal tubercle ; no outer metatarsal tubercle; no tarsal fold. The tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the nostril or the tip of the snout. Skin smooth, or with a few small flat warts on the back ; glandular lateral fold very feebly developed and distinct only anteriorly. Olive-green above; a blackish streak below the canthus rostralis ; a blackish band on the temporal region and above the shoulder, broken up into spots posteriorly; sides greyish, marbled wdth dark brown; a whitish streak from below the eye to above the arm; limbs with more or less distinct dark cross-bands ; hinder side of thighs marbled with dark brown ; brownish beneath, throat dark brown, with or without small white spots. Male with internal vocal sacs and an oval flat gland at the base of the arm. From snout to vent 45 millim. Eight specimens : Masarang Mts., Matiuang Mts., 3300 feet, and Takalekadjo Mts., towards Lake Posso, 3000 feet. Dr. A. B. Meyer records Rana natatrix, Gthr., from Gorontalo, but the determination requires revision. 13. BHACOPHORUS LEUCOMYSTAX, Gravh. Numerous specimens : Buol, Tomohon, Kema, Burukan, |
