72 KEl'TILES. 



Tynipauum distinct ; eustachian tubes moderate ; tongue elongate, 

 broader, free and deeply notched behind. Sacral vertebra not di- 

 lated. Males with an internal subgular vocal sac. East Indies ; 

 West Africa. 



Lininodytes, Viun. if,- Bihr. viii. p. 510. 

 ITylarana, Polypedates, sp., Tschudi, Batr. p. 78. 

 Ilyla, sp., Schlegel, Abbild. pp. 24, 57. 



1. Hylarana macrodactyla. (Plate II. fig. C.) 



Snout very much elongate, pointed ; fomih toe two-thirds the 

 length of body ; toes half- webbed ; on each side of back a narrow 

 white glandular fold ; a white vertebral line ; a whitish streak along 

 the upper lip. 



a. h. Adult and half-grown. Hong Kong. Presented by J. C. 



Bowring, Esq. 

 0, d. Adult and half-grown. China. Presented by J. R. Reeves, 



Esq. 

 e. Half-grown. China. 

 /". Half-grown : bad state. China. 



Description. — Habit very slender ; head much elongate, with flat 

 crown, rather rounded canthus rostralis, and long pointed muzzle ; 

 upper jaw reaching far beyond the lower one ; loreal region grooved ; 

 nostril oval, lateral, just below the canthus rostralis, nearer the end 

 of snout than the eye. Eye moderate, prominent ; tympanum large, 

 nearly the width of eye, just above the angle of mouth. Extremities 

 slender, with small, rather indistinct disks ; fingers quite free ; the 

 third much the longest, first and second nearly equal in length, the 

 foiu-th rather longer ; subarticular tubercles moderate ; toes very long 

 and slender, half- webbed, foiu-th much the longest, fifth longer than 

 thii-d ; at the base of the tii'st finger a tubercle, rather smaller than 

 the subarticular ones. Skin quite smooth, only the hinder part of 

 the under side of the thigh granular ; a glandular fold from the back 

 edge of eye along the sides of back. Cleft of mouth long ; tongue 

 large, very long, very deeply notched behind ; palate very narrow ; 

 interior nostrils moderate, eustachian tubes rather larger ; vomerine 

 teeth in two oblique series, convergent posteriorly, between the 

 inner nostrils. Above oUve, ^vith thi'ee pai'allel white stripes, one 

 from the muzzle to the anus, and the two others along the glandular 

 folds ; some brown spots between ; sides of body black-spotted ; loreal 

 region blaclush, with a white streak from the end of snout passing 

 between tympanimi and angle of mouth ; extremities above with ir- 

 regular spots and streaks ; under parts unifonn yello\^'ish. Length of 

 body 11" ; length of cleft of mouth 1" ; length of front extremity |-" ; 

 length of hinder extremity 3" ; length of thii'd finger y ; length of 

 foiu'th toe \\". 



