136 the proceedings of the linnean society 



1. — Ranastej: convexiusculus. 



Head and back convex ; snout broad and rounded. Fingers 

 with 3 or 4 tubercular pads beneath. Toes longer, slighter, and 

 with the same number of pads beneath. Colour, above brown 

 mottled and spotted with black with a broad grey stripe from 

 between the eyes to the snout and one or two others from the eye 

 to the lip, beneath, on the abdomen yellowish, on the throat and 

 breast yellow, spotted with reddish brown, and on the legs 

 reddish. 



Length of body, 16 lines ; of the thigh, 6 lines ; and of the 

 foot, 8 lines. 



One specimen was procured at Katow. 



OPISTHOGLOSSA PLATYDACTYLA. 



Hylophorbus, New Genus. 



Form elongate. Head small. Eyes prominent. Nostrils on 

 the side of the snout, which is prominent. Mouth opening 

 beneath. Teeth none. Internal nostrils almost hidden under 

 the projecting snout. Tongue not free behind. Fingers and 

 toes free and slight, with a small but distinct short transverse 

 disc at their extremities. Tympanum visible, but covered with 

 skin. Skin smooth. No paratoids. Sacral vertebra ? 



I imagine this to be a perfectly new form, at all events it does 

 not seem to conform well to any of Dr. Gunther's sub-divisions 

 of the (Jpisthoglossa platydactyla. 



2. — Hylophorbus rufescens. 

 Colour, above, reddish brown, indistinctly mottled with darker 

 brown, the lighter patches and the head appearing under a 

 powerful lens to be dusted with yellowish scales or granules, on 

 each side a broad somewhat interrupted curved brownish red line, 

 occasionally varied with yellow, extends from a little behind the 

 ear to the extremity of the anterior part of the thigh ; the same 

 line shows slightly on the upper part of the tympanum, and more 

 distinctly in the front and on top of the snout, and in front of 

 and underneath the eyes. The upper part of the arm is also 



