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were found in the unfolding leaves of banban plants, at a 
distance of about 2 meters from the ground; two were vivid 
greenish yellow above and white below, and the third was bluish 
green, later changing: to yellow. The latter when placed in 
alcohol became bluish, and when fixed is a dark grayish blue. 
At first I believed I was dealing with a new species. More ma- 
terial may warrant a separation. 
Basilan specimens were taken at night on October 10, 1920, 
in an old open well where they were breeding. Both males and 
females were dark brown with yellow or cream spots when 
taken. Masses of eggs were found around the edge of the well, 
and on plants about the walls. The eggs are laid in masses of 
foam, very similar to those of Polypedates leucomystax. They 
can be easily distinguished from that species by the fact that 
the mass is distinctly yellow, while that of P. leucomystax 
is whitish or cream. A number of larve and recently trans- 
formed young were taken some time later. One of the Polillo 
adult specimens has a curious deformity. The fourth toe sends 
off two branches at the antepenultimate joint, resulting in a 
total of seven fingers. The accessory fingers have developed 
distinct disks at the tips. The subarticular tubercle of the 
antepenultimate joint is at one side, wholly on the web. 
Polypedates linki sp. nov. Plate 3, fig. 2. 
Type.—No 1703, E. H. Taylor collection; collected at Jolo, 
Jolo Island, November 10, 1920, by E. H. Taylor. 
Description of type—(Adult female.) Choanez large, not or 
but slightly concealed by overhanging jaw; vomerine teeth in 
two short slender oblique series arising from near the upper an- 
terior edge of choane and not extending to posterior border; the 
series of teeth separated by a distance nearly equal to length 
of one series; tongue rather small, with two posterior horns, 
no tubercle; snout short, rather truncate; loreal region slightly 
oblique, concave; canthus rostralis distinct, the edge somewhat 
rounded; eyes moderate, diameter of orbit equal to distance from 
nostril; upper eyelid equal to or slightly wider than interorbital 
distance; distance between nostrils less than their distance from 
eye and less than interorbital distance; nostril very much nearer 
to end of snout than eye; tympanum large, entirely distinct, its 
diameter about two-thirds that of orbit; a well-developed 
straight glandular fold from behind eye running diagonally to 
a point some distance behind insertion of arm; interorbital area 
with a broad shallow depressed area; skin of back almost wholly 
smooth; skin on head smooth, not involved in cranial ossifica- 
