80 ' REPTILES. 



nences on the'upper parts, beneath the anus and on the heel ; fore- 

 arm and metatarsus fringed. Tympanum round, half the width of 

 eye. (Intermediate form between Polypedates and RhacopJtorvs.) 

 Length of body If; length of hinder extremity 2i" ; length of 

 front extremity l^". 



a. Philippine Islands. 



5. Polypedates eques. (Plate VI. fig. B.) 



Fingei's very slightly webbed. Vomerine teeth between the inner 

 nostrils in two rather oblique series. Snout pointed ; keel with a 

 cutaneous spur ; t_)Tnpanum elliptic, half the width of the eye ; 

 along the under- arm and tarsus a white cutaneous fold ; a white 

 band from the top of the snout to the base of the leg. 



a. Half-grown male. Ceylon, From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 

 b-f. Adidt. Ceylon. From Mr. Cimiing's Collection. 



Description. — Habit slender. Head depressed, triangular, with 

 broad flat crown, angular canthus rostralis, and pointed muzzle ; 

 loreal region grooved ; nostril round, lateral, just below the canthus, 

 nearer the end of snout ; eye large ; tympanum elliptic, oblique, 

 half as large as eye ; a narrow glandular fold from the back edge of 

 eye above the tympanum to the shoulder ; upper parts quite smooth, 

 under-side finely granular; anus siuToimded by yellowish, rather 

 prominent warts. Disks of fingers rather broad, of toes moderate ; 

 second finger shorter than fourth ; membrane between the toes 

 reaching to half the length of foiuih toe, and to the disk of the 

 four other ones ; fifth toe hardly longer than the third ; at the base 

 of the first a small tubercle ; subarticular tiibercles moderate. 

 Eustachian tubes larger than the inner nostrils ; tongue pear-shaped, 

 deeply notched behind ; male with the usual slits on the sides of 

 the tongue, and \vith two internal subgular vocal sacs beneath the 

 angle of mouth. Above grejash, with a darker, large triangular 

 spot, tapering on the shoulder, and again widening posteriorly ; 

 beneath the canthus rostralis an indistinct blackish-ash streak ; a 

 j-eUow line from the end of snout, along the margin of upper lip, 

 beneath the tjTupanum to the base of leg ; beneath miiform yellowish ; 

 hinder extremities with darker cross-bands. Length of body 1|-" ; 

 length of front extremity 1" ; length of hinder extremity 2-i-". 



6. Polypedates biirgeri. 



Hyla biirgeri, ScliJeg. Fmin. Japan, t. 3. f. 7, 8. 

 Biirgeria subversicolor, Tschudi, Batr. p. 75. 

 Polypedates biirgeri, L)um. Sj- Bihr. p. 521. 



Fingers very sHghtly webbed. Vomerine teeth in a straight Hne 

 on a level with the front edge of the inner nostrils, interrupted in 

 the middle. Skin of back tubercular. Tympanum distinctly smaller 

 than eye ; crown not bony. .Japan. 



