16, 3 Taylor: Philippine Amphibia 348 
subarticular tubercles single, prominent; palm, underside, and 
edges of fingers with numerous pointed tubercles, which, like all 
the other digital tubercles and the horny tip of the fingers, are 
- blackish brown; heels just meeting when hind legs are placed 
at right angles to axis of body; metatarsal tubercles reaching 
posterior corner of eye when hind legs are placed forward along 
the sides of the body; toes less than one-half webbed, the webs 
being greatly excised and their edges sharply denticulate; inner 
metatarsal tubercle prominent, oval, shorter than first toe, outer 
one large, rounded, less prominent; the single subarticular tuber- 
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cles, plantar tubercular asperities, and tip of toes like those on 
the fore foot; skin strongly tubercular, the tubercles on the back 
larger, more distant, glandular, rounded, those on sides and 
limbs more prominent, almost conical, all with a horny dark- 
brown tip, which on sides and limbs becomes spinous.” 
Color (in aleohol) .—Clay-colored above, more pure pale ocher- 
yellow underneath, all the crests and nearly all the tips of the 
tubercles dark brown, as are also the elevated fine vermiculations 
on the surface of the parotoids; indistinct dusky spots and coarse 
vermiculations on limbs, sides, throat, and breast.” 
