HERPETOLOdY. 293 



C. prixnitA, Giaj'. 



HylmdaclijlM biciltuttis, Cantor. 



Eye rather small. Thigh enveloped in the skin of the si<lo. Back and outside 

 of limbs brownish olive, with some small black spots, iluzzle and side reddish grey, 

 or rosy, the tint varying with season, the colour forming a side baud edged with 

 black and tlie two confluent across the snout. Below this reddish band a dark band 

 concolorous with the back comes on behind the eye and hardly reaching to the loins. 

 Cliiu dark. Bully marbled. Iris golden brown, rupil transversely rhombic. 



Grows to over 3 inclies. 



This fine species is very common in Pegu, and harbours under stones in damp 

 spots like a toacl. The enlarged finger-tips bear no relation to arboreal habits, and 

 would seem to be merely simulative of the adhesive disk on the digits of tree frogs, 

 and functionless unless of use in forming a bed in soft earth. 



The following species has been separated by Stoliczka from CalluUa. 



Calluella, Stoliczka. 



Habit stout. Head and gape short, maxillary and vomerine teeth present, 

 choanaj and openings of eustachian tubes small, two folds across the palate, lower jaw 

 with two prominences. Tongue entire, free behind. Fingers free, toes webbed, 

 both with truncated, but not swollen tip. Metatarsus with an inner shovel-like 

 prominence. Processes of sacral vertebra} dilated. Tympanum hidden. Skin smooth. 



C. GUTTULATA, Blytll. 



Eye small. Colour variable, above pinkish-olive maculately marbled with 

 black-bordered brown spots. A transverse black mark across the vent. Tbe 

 reniform marbUng somewhat resembles the arrangement of water drops on an oily 

 surface. 



Length over 3 inches. Inhabits Pegu. 



Stoliczka adds : — " Blyth, when originally describing the species as a Mcgaloplirys, 

 must have noticed the maxillary and vomerine teeth, and was, therefore, not very 

 •wrong in his determination, but his description is so insufficient, that I would have 

 hardly ventured to identify the present species with it, had Dr. Giintlier not done so. 

 Calluella appears to connect Pyxieephalus with Mfi/tilop/iri/s, ditfeiing from the 

 former by the entire tongue and fi'om the latter by the absence of cutaneous prolon- 

 gations on the eyelids. It evidently belongs to the family Bicroglossida. 



" Although this species extemally most closely resembles the type of the genus 

 Callula, C. pulchra, — except in having the tips of fingers and toes scarcely swollen, 

 instead of dilated, — it essentially differs by having two very distinctly toothed ridges 

 extending from behind the choanoe towards the centre of the vomer and also by the 

 toothed maxillaries and intermaxillaries. An adult specimen of about the same 

 size as the one figured by Gunther shows these characters very distinctly, but 

 in young ones these denticulations are scarcely or very deficiently traceable. I have 

 examined a large series of Callula pulchra, but as none of them show any teeth on 

 the vomer or on the maxillaries, a generic separation of the present species appears to 

 me justified." 



LEPTOBEACniUM, Tiichudi. 



Vomerine teeth none. Fingers free, toes webbed at the base. 



L. Hasseltii, Tschudi. 



Nireus pulcherrimus, Theobald. British Burma Gazetteer, Vol. I. p. 638. 



A few specimens of this most lovely frog were captured by me in stream beds 

 in the Arakan hills, but all were subsequently lost. The following brief note may 

 serve to lead to the recognition of the species. Length about an inch. Mouth very 

 broad, bufonine. Colour light pinkish silvery-grey. Back beautifully ornamented 

 ■with velvet black reniform spots. Pupil of eye lozenge-shaped, vertical ; the upper 

 half bright orange, the lower black. Legs feeble. 



Inhabits tlie Arakan Range or Western Yo-ma. This is a remarkable habitat 

 for such an animal, as it was only previously known from Java. 



