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64. Rhacophorns nasutus. 



Polypedates nasutus, Giinth. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 486, pi. xxxix, fig. '2. 

 Rhacophorus nasutus, Bouleng. Cat. Batr. Sal. p. 85. 



Very closely allied to R. eqaes. Snout much longer, equalling 

 about twice the diameter of the eye, its extremity projecting in a 

 pointed cutaneous appendage. Brownish olive above ; legs with 

 dark cross bands ; two blackish lines along each side of the body, 

 and another along the middle of the throat ; lower lip black- 

 margined. 



From snout to vent 2*2 inches. 



Hob. Ceylon. 



65. Rhacophorus reticulatus. 



Polypedates reticulatus, Giinth. Kept. B. I. p. 431, pi. xxvi, fig. F. 

 Rhacophorus reticulatus, Bouleny. Cat. Batr. Sal. p. 80. 



Vornerine teeth in two oblique groups between the choanse. A 

 conical papilla on the middle of the tongue. Snout rounded ; 

 canthusrostralis distinct ; loreal region slightly concave ; nostril near 

 the end of the snout, its distance from the eye equalling the diameter 

 of the latter ; interorbital space broader than the upper eyelid ; 

 tympanum half the diameter of the eye. Fingers with a rudiment 

 of web ; toes nearly entirely webbed ; disks as large as the tympa- 

 num ; subarticular tubercles moderate. The tibio-tarsal articulation 

 reaches the tip of the snout, or slightly beyond. Skin smooth 

 above, granular beneath ; a narrow fold above the tympanum. 

 Brown above, with small darker spots ; a more or less distinct dark 

 cross band between the eyes ; flanks and hinder side of thighs with 

 a network of dark brown lines ; legs indistinctly cross-barred ; throat 

 brown-spotted. 



From snout to vent 2-5 inches. 



Hob. Ceylon. 



GKinther, A. M. N. H. (4) xvii, 1876, p. 379, pi. xx, fig. C, has 

 recorded the interesting fact that the female of this frog carries 

 the ova attached to the belly ; these ova, in the specimen ex- 

 amined, were only twenty in number, of the size of a hemp-seed, 

 firmly adherent to one another, and leaving shallow impressions in 

 the skin of the abdomen of the mother. This mode of nursing is 

 analogous to that of the European Midwife Toad, Alytes obstetricans, 

 in which, however, it is the male that takes charge of the progeny, 

 the eggs being attached round the legs. 



66. Rhacophorus dubius. 



Ixalus jerdonii, Giinth. P. Z. S. 1875, p. 575. 



Rhacophorus dubius, Bouleny. Cat. Batr. Sal. p. 81, pi. viii, fig. 2. 



Vomerine teeth ? Tongue with a free conical papilla in the 

 middle. Snout rounded, not longer than the diameter of the orbit ; 



