144 discoglossidj:. 



Grey, olive, or rarely bright grass-green above, with 

 distant symmetrical blackish or dark bottle-green 

 spots disposed on the larger warts. Usually, in German 

 specimens, a pair of pale green or bright green roundish 

 spots between the shoulders. Austrian specimens 

 often lack the green colour, and Mehely found it in 

 two specimens only, out of fifty collected in Hungary. 

 A dark streak from the end of the snout to the eye ; 

 upper lip with dark vertical bars; limbs, including 

 the digits, with more or less regular dark ci'oss-bars. 

 Lower parts bluish-black, usually with white dots, 

 and more or less numerous, insuliform or vermicular, 

 bright orange to vermilion markings, the most con- 

 stant of which are a pair of pectoral spots and a pair 

 of lumbar cross-bars; the latter sometimes nearly 

 continuous, like a belt across the praspubic region ; the 

 spots sometimes absent on the throat and belly, which 

 then are entirely black, dotted Avith white ; a small 

 white spot sometimes present on the chin. A large 

 bright spot on the inner side of the palmar, and 

 another on the inner side of the plantar surface; 

 these spots are not confluent with those on the 

 forearm and tarsus, and do not extend to the tip of 

 the inner digit ; one specimen, from Vienna, is excep- 

 tional in having the plantar and tarsal spots confluent 

 on the right side. The tips of all the digits black or 

 yellowish-white, never bright orange or red. 



Iris golden, much sprinkled over with brown, or 

 bronzy brown with a golden circle round the pupil ; 

 the o'olden border broader above than below and at 

 the sides ; the pupil round with a lower angle, or sub- 

 triangular, rarely notched above as in the following 

 species, — in fact, perfectly similar to that of Discoglossus. 



Male distinguished from the female by a usually 

 somewhat shorter body, a rather broader head, 

 stronger fore limbs, and especially by the presence of 

 a pair of internal vocal sacs formed by the skin of the 

 floor of the mouth, which is loose and plicate, and 

 projects through a slit dividing the submaxillary 



