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tubercles on back and limbs, and the greater extent of webbing 
between the toes. Numerous other differences are evident on a 
comparison of the descriptions. 
Specimens were captured at night by following in the di- 
rection of their shrill chirping cry, which for a long time was 
believed to come from some species of cricket. They were 
located with great difficulty, perched on the leaves of low shrubs. 
A few other voices were heard, but these sounds came from a 
swamp overgrown with thick jungle through which one dared not 
venture at night. 
Philautus polillensis sp. nov. 
Type—No. 351, E. H. Taylor collection; collected near the 
southern end of Polillo Island, July 12, 1920, by E. H. Taylor. 
Description of type—Head about as wide as body, pointed; 
tongue moderately long with two short horns, narrowly sepa- 
rated at base; choanz small, widely separated; vomerine teeth 
in two small rows, considerably behind the choane, separated 
from each other by a distance one and a half times the length 
of one of the groups; tongue with a raised moundlike prominence 
near anterior part; tip of snout conical; nostrils much nearer 
tip of snout than eye; diameter of orbit somewhat less than 
length of snout; a single large conical tubercle on upper eyelid 
near outer middle edge; pupil horizontal; canthus rostralis 
distinct; loreal region concave, sloping gently to edge of jaw; 
tympanum rather indistinct, its diameter one-third to one-fourth 
of eye; a strong fold above tympanum to near insertion of 
arm dimly granular; a second fold from a point above and 
behind tympanum to lower jaw; a row of granules from be- 
hind tympanum to arm, parallel to the supratemporal fold; 
a distinct depression between the two folds; skin above prac- 
tically smooth, with two small tubercles between shoulders and 
two pairs on back; a small tubercle on back above anus; a 
distinct tubercle on tip of jaw; skin of throat and breast 
smooth, with numerous minute pitlike depressions; belly and 
underside of femur strongly granular; a strong tubercle at 
heel; tip of each of the three outer fingers with a strongly dilated 
pad, nearly twice the width of digit; inner finger very small, 
slender, without pad; subarticular tubercles large, flat, moder- 
ately well defined; a single large carpal tubercle; no trace of 
web; tips of toes distinctly dilated, not more than one and one- 
half times the width of digit; fourth toe very long, third and 
fifth equal, barely reaching third subarticular tubercle from the 
