21,3 Taylor: Herpetological Fauna, II 267 
The species was discovered by Mr. Lyman H. Taft and Dr. 
F, X. Williams, and is named for the former in recognition of 
his kindness in collecting and presenting to me this and numer- 
ous other valuable specimens. 
Micrixalus diminutiva sp. nov. Plate 1, figs. 3 and 4; Plate 2, figs. 
2 and 3. 
Type.—No. 1066, E. H. Taylor collection; collected near Pa- 
sananka, Zamboanga, Mindanao, November 10, 1920, by E. H. 
Taylor. 
Description of type-——Choane small, widely separated, con- 
cealed under overhanging jaw; no vomerine teeth present; 
tongue very small, without tubercular papilla on tip, very slightly 
notched behind; apex of lower jaw with a single, toothlike prom- 
inence; head short, snout blunt, nostril about midway between 
eye and tip of snout; eye large, the diameter of orbit distinctly 
longer than snout; loreal region nearly perpendicular or slightly 
sloping; canthus rostralis rather indistinct, rounded; a very 
shallow depression behind nostril; tympanum with only a slight 
edge visible; a fold from eye running in a straight line to behind 
angle of mouth, then curving up to above insertion of arm; a 
glandular area behind angle of mouth; upper eyelid about one 
and one-fifth times interorbital space; skin above smooth, very 
minutely shagreened or corrugated; eyelid with a distinct tu- 
bercle; a dorsolateral glandular fold begins behind eye and 
continues more than half the length of body, more prominent 
anteriorly ; this fold is widely separated from the supratympanic 
fold at its beginning; sides with numerous pustular tubercles, 
one above arm most prominent; belly and underside of limbs 
smooth; arms short, fingers small, the tips not or very slightly 
dilated ; the palm very thick; subarticular tubercles nearest palm 
well defined, outer ones less strongly defined; first finger as 
long as second and fourth; carpal tubercles flat, indistinct; no 
web between fingers; indistinct tubercles on outer side of arm; 
toes about two-thirds webbed, the membrane reaching disk of 
first and second toes on the outer side and to near disk on the 
inner edge of fifth; a strong inner metatarsal tubercle; outer 
very dim, situated at the end of a flap of skin which is on the 
outer side of fifth toe; a slight fold on heel behind inner meta- 
tarsal tubercle; the leg brought forward tibiotarsal articulation 
reaches to between eye and tip of snout. (Males with two in- 
ternal vocal sacs, the openings small.) 
Color in life—Above a broad chestnut brown stripe from tip 
of snout to anus, widening posteriorly ; the rest of back and sides 
