IlEltl'ETOLOaV. 291 



ITe;ul and boily 2-0, liiml limb 3-3 inches. Burma. 



This is the ropresoutative in Bengal and Burma of //. enjthraa, wliirh it ilosely 

 resembh's, but ha.s, says Blyth, "shorter and stouter limbs and short anterior digits." 

 See Stoliczka, J.A.S.B. 1870, p. 148. 



L. NIGROVITTATUS, Blytll. 



Colour " above ruddy plumbeous, below albescent with a broad blackish band 

 from the nostril to the base of the hind limbs," with a slightly palish u])pcr margin 

 in place of the broad white stripe of L. erylhrmus. Limbs posteriorly dark-marblud. 



Head and body 2-0, hind limb 3' 15 inches. Inhabits Tenasserim. 



L. XicoB-UiiE>\sis, Stoliczka. 



Much like the last, but tympanum larger (" a little smaller than the eye "), and 

 the disks more developed. Colour greenish-olive, almost black in some mah^s. Sides 

 and loreal region black. Below black-mottled ; yellowish between the thighs. 



Head and body of male 20, hind limb 3-25 inches. Inhabits the Nicobars. 



L. GEAXCLOS.i, Anderson. 



Tympanum nearly as large as the eye. Two glands behind the mouth, Init not 

 prolonged along the side. Two well-developed metatarsal tubercles. Back granular, 

 ■with a few scattered tubercles in the sacral region. Colour above olive-brown. A 

 dark lateral band and a narrow white streak from the eye along the glandidar 

 Ibid behind the gape. Throat dusky. Below yellowish, reticulately spotted with 

 brown. Legs barred. Grows to 2-2 inches. Inhabits Assam and Pegu. 



L. Marc.ariaxa, Anderson. 



Body slender. Tympanum nearly as large as the eye. Vomerine teeth very 

 fully developed on two obscure ridges, widely separated. Limbs long and slender. 

 The web reaches the disks on the toes except on the fourth. A small elongated 

 tubercle at the base of the first too. Disks on the fingers feebly developed, on the 

 toes more so. Skin smooth. A glandular lateral fold. Above dark olive-brown, 

 with a blackish band through the eye to the groin, and a narrow pale yellowish line 

 from the eye to the shoulder. Limbs banded. Throat and chest almost black. 



h. Ground froi/s. 

 Xenophrts, Gilnther. 



Fingers and toes tapering, free. Tympanum small. Xo paratoids. Vomerine 

 teeth present. Ujiper eyelid well developed, but without appendages. 



X. MOXTICOLA, Giinth. 



A linear fold from the orbit over the tympanum to the axilla. Tongue large, 

 not notched behind. A fold on the nape, with the angle pointing backwards. Colour 

 above brownish-olive. A dark spot on the crown. A brown spot below the eye, and 

 u brown band below the supratympanal fold. Lower parts brown-marbled. Head 

 and body 2-75 ; hind leg, 4-1 inches. See Anderson, in T.Z.S.L. 1871, p. 200. 



Pegu and Sikkim. 



CALopHRrxus, Tschudi. 



Berdmorea, Stoliczka. (Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 1872, p. 14C.) 



Habit bufonine, with proportionately short hind limbs. Head moderate, triangnlar. 

 Fingers free, toes webbed ; tips of both very slightly swollen, truncate ; heel with two 

 small tubercles. Skin granular. Tympanum distinct. Eustachian tubes rather large. 

 Tongue entire. Maxillaries sharp, edentulous ; intermaxillary not ossified. An in- 

 terrupted Ibid of skin behind the choana;, and two others further on on the palate, both 

 papillose, but the posterior much stronger than the anterior. 



C. ixtj:rlixeata, Blyth. 



The live animal is one of the most beautifully coloured frogs. The entire body 

 is strongly tinged with vinaeeous red, paling to golden yellowish on the lower belly. 

 The two longitudinal dorsal bands arc som(!times not very conspicuous on account of 

 the entire upper surface being reticulated with narrow vinous brown bands ; the large 



