HATRACHIA SALIKNTIA. 8] 



7. Polypedates schlegelii. (Plate VI. fig. C.) 



Ilylffi ai'borete ^■al•. japoiiic;o doscript. para Schlcg. in Fauna Japon. 

 p. 112 (indivitUis a unu tuille beaut'oup plus forte que chez nous — 

 tres vieux sujets — a toutes Ics parties supih-icmros d'un vei't-pr^ 

 imiforiue, &c.), pi. 3. f. 5. 



Fingers one-third webbed ; vomerine teeth in two rather oblique 

 series, beginning from the inner front angle of the interior nostrils ; 

 tongue deeply notched behind. Above uniform bluish green, sides 

 of belly sometimes with small brown specks, beneath uniform whitish ; 

 head without band or spot. (Bee Hyla viridis, var. japonlca.) 

 a,b. Adult and half-groA\'n. Japan. From the Leyden Museum. 

 c. Adult. Japan. From the Leyden Museum. 



All three with the name Ilyla viridis jajjonica. 



Description. — Habit intermediate between Polypedates macidatus 

 and Hyla viridis. Head broad, •v\'ith rather short muzzle, but not 

 rounded canthiis rostralis. A glandular fold from the ])ack edge of 

 eye above the tympanum to the shoulder. Tympanum circular, half 

 the width of the eye. rather indistinct. Fingers one-third Avebbed, 

 with moderate subartieular tubercles and rather broad disks; toes 

 short, the fourth one-foui-th or one-fifth longer than the fifth, the third 

 as much longer than the fifth as its disk is broad ; membrane broad, 

 reaching the base of the disks, but deeply notched ; subartieular 

 tubercles moderate ; metatarsus with a blunt tubercle ; tarsus not 

 fringed. Coloration as above mentioned. TongTie broader behind 

 than in front, and deeply notched ; interior nostrils moderate ; 

 vomerine teeth between the nostrils, in two rather obUquc series, 

 well separated on the middle of the palate, each beginning from 

 the anterior front angle of nostril. Eustachian tubes moderate. 

 Male with an internal vocal sac and the usual openings on the 

 sides of the tongue. Diapophyses of the sacral vertebra cylindrical. 

 Length of body 21-" ; length of hinder extremity 3-i-" ; length of 

 tarsus y ; length of fourth toe 1" ; length of anterior extremity 11". 



8. Polypedates afghana. 



Fingers quite free. Vomerine teeth in a straight line, on a level 

 with the hinder edge of the inner nostrils, internipted in the middle. 

 Skin smooth ; tympanum very small, as large as the disk of the 

 finger ; toes very broadly webbed to the disk. 

 a. Adult female. Afghanistan. Presented by Mr. Griffith. 

 h, c. Larva;. Afghanistan. Presented by the East India Company. 



To the above-mentioned characters may be added : — 

 Habit as in P. macidatus ; snout angular, rather high ; nostril on 

 the canthus rostralis in the middle between the eye and toj) of 

 snout ; tympanum distant from the eye ; inner nostiils moderate ; 

 eustachian tubes rather larger ; disks rather large. Subartieular 

 tubercles very conspicuous, oblong ; metatarsus with a veiy small 

 blunt tubercle. Above brown, variegated with grepsh. Length of 

 body 3" ; length of front extremity 2^" ; length of hinder one 6". 



