16, 3 Taylor: Philippine Amphibia 231 
region sloping very obliquely to mouth; nostrils halfway between 
eye and end of snout, the distance between them greater than 
their distance from eye; interorbital region narrow, much less 
than a single eyelid; eye moderately small, its diameter less 
than length of snout; tympanum covered with skin, its outline 
dim, its diameter less than eye; skin above granular, striated, 
corrugated or with small tubercles; chin roughly granular, with 
a series of dim glandular tubercles forming two longitudinal 
parallel rows, which run from point of lower jaw to breast, 
where they meet a row of small glands, which cross the neck to 
near angle of mouth and go above arm to some distance on side; 
belly finely granular; anal region and underside of thighs gran- 
ular; a straight supratemporal fold from eye to behind angle 
of mouth; parietal regions somewhat swollen; arms short, thick; 
fingers short with tips not as wide as fingers; palm with two 
prominent tubercles, that on first finger largest; first finger 
slightly longer than third or second; hind legs short and thick; 
toes with small disks, a little wider than toes; toes webbed to 
base of disks, very slightly incised between digits; subarticular 
tubercles small; a sharply defined inner metatarsal tubercle 
about one-third the length of first toe; no outer metatarsal 
tubercle; a skin fold on outer side of first and fifth toes, that 
on first toe continued on tarsus. Male with internal subgular 
vocal sac. The tibiotarsal articulation reaches snout. 
Color in life-—Above black-brown, with a dull yellow stripe 
from snout to anus; sides lighter, mottled brown; belly, chin, 
and underside of legs dirty cream, more or less spotted or 
mottled with dark brown. 
Measurements of Oxyglossus levis Giinther. 
mm. 
Length, snout to vent 61 
Length of head 19 
Width of head * 20.5 
Length of snout : 1.5 
Diameter of tympanum (about) 5 
Diameter of eye . 
Foreleg 27 
Longest finger it 
Hind leg ‘ 93 
Femur 23 
Tibia 21.5 
Longest toe 22 
: Variation.—The variation in color is marked; some specimens 
™m my collection are dull reddish brown above and white below, — 
With a few scattered markings on legs; one specimen examined 
‘S uniform gray, yellowish below; hind legs dark above, light 
