488 RANIDiE. 



toes half webbed ; disks well developed ; a very small inner meta- 

 tarsal tubercle. The tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the eye. 

 Skin smooth above, granular below ; a fold from the eye to the 

 shoulder. Above dark brown witli round yellow spots, or brown 

 with dark vermiculations or spots ; hinder side of thighs dark brow n, 

 with round yellow spots ; lower parts yellow, mai'bled with brown. 

 Male with an internal vocal sac. 



From snout to vent 1'25 inches. 



Hah. Malabar. 



<*-!7. Ixalus chalazodes. 



Ixakis chalazodes, Giinth. P. Z. S. 1875. p. .")74, pi. Ixvi, fi^-. B: 

 Boulenr/. Cat. JJatr. Sal. p. 105. 



Tongue with a pointed papilla in the anterior part of the median 

 line. tSnout rounded, as long as the diameter of the orbit : can- 

 thus rostralis indistinct : loreal region very slightly concave ; nos- 

 tril nearer to the tip of the snout than to the eye ; interorbital space 

 broader than the upper eyelid ; tympanum small, hidden. Fingers 

 free ; toes half \\ebbed ; disks well developed ; subarticular tuber- 

 cles double under the second and fourth fingers ; a small inner meta- 

 tarsal tubercle. The tibio-tarsal articulation reaches to between 

 the eye and tlie tip of the snout. Skin of upper parts smooth ; a 

 few round tubercles on the flanks, on the hind part of the back, 

 and on the metatarsus ; a slight fold from the eye to the shoulder : 

 beneath granular. Uniform green above, the round tubercles white ; 

 lower parts uuiform white. 



From snout to vent I'l inches. 



Ifab. Travancore. 



8S. Ixalus glandiilosus. 



Ixalis? glandulosa, Jerdon, J. A. S. B. xxii, IS^O, p. 5'J2. 

 ? Phylloiiiedusa tiunieiis, Jerdon, I. v. p. 5;i3. 

 Ixalus montanus, Gitnth. P. Z. S. 1875, p. 574, pi. Ixvi, fig', A. 

 Ixalus glandulosus, liuidciig. Cat. Batr. Sal. p. U)."]. 



Tongue with a pointed papilla in the anterior part of the median 

 line. Snout rounded, as long as the diameter of the oi-bit ; eanthus 

 rostralis distinct ; loreal region sliglitly concave ; nostril equally 

 distant from the eye and the tip of the snout ; interorbital space 

 broader than the upper eyelid ; tympanum small, hidden. Fingers 

 free ; toes nebbed at the base ; disks ^vell developed ; a small inner 

 metatarsal tubercle. The tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the eye, 

 or not quite so far. Upper surfaces smooth or \\\t\\ small tubercles ; 

 sides generally glandular or tubercular ; a fold from the eye to the 

 shoulder; lower surfaces granular. Dark purplish brown above, 

 uniform or with indistinct markings, or greyish brown with sym- 

 metrical darker or lighter markings ; beneath immaculate or spotted 

 \x\x\i brown. Male with an internal vocal sac. 



From snout to vent 1'5 inches. 



Hah. Hills near Malabar coasts, up to GOOO feet (Nilgiris, Anai- 

 malais, Travaucore). 



