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64. Rhacophorus nasutiis. 



I'olypedates nasutus, Gunth. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 486, pi. xxxix, fig. 2. 

 Rhacophorus nasutus, Boulenr/. Cat. Batr. Sal. p. 8o, 



Very closely allied to li. eques. Snout much longer, equalling 

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

 pointed cutaneous appendage. Brownish olive above ; legs with 

 dark cross bands ; two blackish hues 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. 



Ilab. Ceylon. 



65. Rhacophorus reticulatus. 



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

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



Vomerine teeth in two oblique groups between the choanse. A 

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

 canthusrostrahs distinct ; loreal region shghtly 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 tlie diameter of the eye. Fingers with a rudiment 

 of \\'eb ; 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 tpnpauum. 

 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. 



Hah. Ceylon. 



Giinther, A. M. N. H. (4) xvii, 1S76, 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 iu number, of the size of a hemp-seed, 

 firmly adherent to one another, and lea\ing shallo\\' impressions in 

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

 analogous to that of the European Midwife Toad, AJi/tes ohstetricans, 

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

 the eggs being attached round the legs. 



06. Rhacophorus dubius. 



Ixalus jerdouii, Gilnfh. P. Z. S. 187o, 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 ; 



