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BOULENGER. 



canthus rostralis indistinct; loreal region very oblique, scarcely 

 x^oncave; nostril equidistant from the eye and from the tip of the 

 snout or a little nearer the former; distance between the nostrils 

 equal to or a little greater than the interorbital width, which is less 

 than that of the upper eyelid; tympanum moderately or very dis- 

 tinct, § to once the diameter of the eye, 1| to 3 times its distance from 

 the latter. 



Fingers long and slender, pointed, first usually as long as the second 

 sometimes slightly longer or slightly shorter, third much longer than 

 the snout; a narrow dermal fold sometimes present along the sides of 

 the fingers; subarticular tubercles small, feebly prominent. 



Hind limb rather short or moderately long, the tibio-tarsal articula- 

 tion reaching the tympanum or the eye, the heels meeting when the 

 limbs are folded at right angles to the body; tibia 2h to ^^ times as long 

 as broad, 2 to 2^ times in length from snout to vent, shorter than 

 the fore limb or than the foot. Toes rather long, pointed, webbed to 

 the tips or last phalanx of fourth free; outer metatarsals separated 

 nearly to the base; subarticular tubercles small, feebly prominent; 

 a feeble tarsal fold; inner metatarsal tubercle elliptic or subtriangular 

 and prominent, i to | the length of the inner toe; no outer tubercle. 



Skin smooth above or granulate and with small warts; a narrow 

 or moderately broad, feebly prominent, glandular dorso-lateral fold 

 from above the tympanum to the sacral region or a little beyond, 

 sometimes broken up, sometimes absent; the distance between the 

 folds, on the back, i to j the length from snout to vent; lower parts 

 smooth, belly and thighs sometimes granulate. 



Purplish brown or olive brown above, uniform or speckled, vermicu- 

 lated, or mottled with lighter or darker, with or without large round- 

 ish dark brown spots which may be grass-green in life, and are often 

 light-edged; limbs with or without dark cross-bands. Lower parts 

 dirty white, uniform on throat and breast vermiculated with brown, 

 or brown speckled with white. 



Male with a large blackish external vocal sac on each side, forming 

 loose folds from behind the angle of the mouth to the shoulder. 



Nasal bones rather large, in contact with each other and narrowly 

 separated from the frontoparietals, which are narrow, grooved 

 along the sagittal suture, and leave but a small part of the ethmoid 

 uncovered ; zygomatic branch of squamosal long. Omosternum not 

 forked at the base. Terminal phalanges obtusely pointed. 



Larva unknown. Eggs small, measuring 1| millimeters in diameter 

 in female, 100 millimeters long from snout to vent. 



