416 BATRACHIA. 



out canthus rostralis ; body thick ; limbs short ; skin in the loins broad and loose. Eye of 

 moderate size, with the pupil round. Cleft of the mouth narrow and short. Two small and 

 short prominences are situated on a level vnih the posterior margin of the choanse ; they 

 do not bear any teeth ; choante wide, much larger than the orifices of the eustachian tubes. 

 Tympanum small, entirely hidden by the skin. Skin nearly smooth or somewhat glandular ; 

 a fold descends from the upper eyelid to behind the angle of the mouth. The hind limb is 

 but little longer than the body ; metatarsus with two large compressed tubercles, the inner 

 being the larger, and in advance of the outer. Toes short, distinctly but shortly webbed. 

 Reddish olive, marbled and mottled with brown, the markings being sometimes undulated, 

 or reticulated. Males mth a large subgular vocal sac of a brown colour, which opens by a 

 pair of very wide slits. 



This species is found in the Carnatic ; it attains to a length of 2^ inches, the hind limb 

 being 2^^ inches long. 



Cacopus globulosus. (Plate XXVI. fig. K.) 



Head short, with the occipital region somewhat convex ; snout short, but considerably 

 longer than in C. systoma ; canthus rostralis distinct, but obtuse ; body short and thick ; 

 limbs very short ; skin in the loins broad and loose. Eye rather small, with the pupil round. 

 Cleft of the mouth narrow, broader than long. Vomer mth a pair of small prominences, 

 situated on a level with the posterior margin of the choanae ; they do not bear any teeth, 

 but a small papilla is suspended from each of them ; a similar smaller papilla, but without 

 bony base, on the middle of the hinder margin of each choana; choanse wide, half as 

 large as the eye, and much larger than the narrow orifices of the eustachian tubes. Tym- 

 panum small, entirely hidden by the skin. Skin smooth ; a fold descends from the upper 

 eyelid to behind the angle of the mouth. The hind limb is as long as the body ; metatarsus 

 with two large, compressed, subcrescentic contiguous tubercles, the inner being much the 

 larger, and in advance of the outer. Toes short, one-third webbed. An old female is 

 uniform brown ; a young specimen has the back irregularly spotted with brown. 



1 have seen two specimens of this species, both of which were brought by Dr. Trail from 

 Russelconda (Madras Presidency) ; the younger is 13 lines long, the larger (a very old female) 

 34 lines long. The former is distended by fluid in an extraordinary manner, so that the body 

 has the shape of a ball, from which the head and limbs project. The fluid is contained in 

 the abdominal cavity. The larger individual is distended in a similar way, but this is caused 

 by an extraordinary development of the ovaria ; these organs become so large, that, not having 

 room in the abdominal cavity, they extend right across the back, tvhere they coalesce, so that 

 the body of the animal is entirely surrounded by the mass of the ovaries : in this specimen 

 I could find the division between the right and left ovaries on the abdominal side, but not on 

 the dorsal. 



