260 HYLID.E. 



occupying nearly the whole width of the lip ; the 

 second upper is narrowly interrupted in the middle, 

 and so is sometimes the third lower; the first lower 

 series only one-third to half as long as the second. 



The lines of muciferous crypts can usually be traced 

 without much difficulty : a loop-shaped one on each 

 side of the head, passing above the nostril and border- 

 ing the eye above and below, both ends nearly meet- 

 ing close to the upper lip ; and another along each side 

 of the body to the middle of the muscular portion of 

 the tail. 



Olive above, with golden gloss ; sides with golden 

 spots ; belly white, with pearl-coloured or golden 

 spots ; muscular part of the tail yellowish with or 

 without blackish dots and frequently with a median 

 black line at its base ; caudal crests whitish, immacu- 

 late or more or less profusely dotted and spotted with 

 orev or blackish. 



Total length 49 mm.; body 16; width of body 12; 

 tail 33 ; depth of tail 15. 



Tadpoles of the var. meridionalis differ in having 

 the second series of upper labial teeth more broadly 

 interrupted in the middle, and in having the muscular 

 part of the tail bordered above and below by a black 

 line ; these two lines, together with a third running 

 along the middle line of the side of the tail, which is 

 immaculate or but scantily spotted, give it a peculiar 

 appearance. 



Camerano has described tadpoles of the var. savignyi 

 from Syria. He finds them to agree with the typical 

 form in the buccal apparatus. Some specimens re- 

 semble the var. vieridionalis in the two black lines on 

 the muscular part of the tail, whilst others are quite 

 similar to the typical form. The single Syrian tadpole 

 examined by me is distinguished by a pair of broad 

 dark brown stripes along the muscular part of the tail, 

 the lower being broken up into elongate spots. Thus, 

 as a larva as well as in the perfect state, the var. 

 savignyi connects the characters of the typical form 



