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much more developed in males than in females. On the back are four irregular rows of large porous 

 tubercles, and numerous minute tubercles without pores stud the rest of the upper parts. On the hind 

 limbs small porous tubercles are very regularly disposed. Colour dull livid olive-green above, a little 

 banded on the limbs ; flame-coloured below, more or less marbled with dusky. 



OXYGLOSSUS, Tschudi. 



Fingers quite free ; toes webbed to their tips by a very extensible mem- 

 brane. Skin glandular or nearly smootb. Vomerine teeth none ; tongue 

 more or less elongate, not notched behind. Openings of the eustachian 

 tubes small. Vocal sac single, internal. 



Only two species are known, one {0. Icevis) being confined to the Philippine Islands, whilst 

 the other is found m the Archipelago as well as on the Continent. 



OXYGLOSSUS LIMA. 



Oxyglossus lima, Tschudi, Batr. p. 85. Dwm. ^ Bibr. viii. p. 334. 



Body and limbs stout ; head small, with the snout rather short ; canthus rostralis none ; 

 eye of moderate size, rather prominent ; tympanum indistinct, as large as, or rather larger 

 than, the eye. The inner nostrils and the openings of the eustachian tubes small. Tongue 

 very long and pointed behind. Male with a single vocal sac, its lateral openings being small. 

 Skin rough, with numerous small tubercles, and with series of larger warts on the sides and 

 especially on the belly. Fingers rather long and pointed. Hind limbs stout, the distance 

 between the vent and the metatarsal tubercle being a little less than the length of the body. 

 Metatarsus with two tubercles ; toes webbed to their tips by a very extensible membrane. 

 Brown above, sometimes marbled with darker, sometimes with a paler dorsal streak. A deep- 

 brown band along the hinder side of the thigh, and along the outer edge of the metatarsus 



and foot; a brown band from the chin along each side of the throat, and a brown I -shaped 



mark on each side of the hindmost part of the belly. 



This species remains small, the largest specimen I have examined being only 1^ inch long ; 

 its hind limb is not quite 2 inches in length. We have received it from the sea-coasts of Siam 

 and Gamboja, from China and Java ; it is said to occur also in Bengal. 



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