244 KA NA MACUI.ARIA. 



macularia iu tlie following chai-acters : tympanum uot as 

 large as the eye; first finger hardly extending beyond the 

 second ; male with a gland at the base of the arm ; size 

 smaller, the length amounting only to l^/g inch. 

 The frog may be described as follows : 



Head depressed , with the snout subacuminate , not quite 

 twice as long as the diameter of the orbit; nostrils at 

 some distance from the tip of the snout; cauthus rostra- 

 lis rounded; loreal region concave; inter-orbital space 

 broader than the upper eyelid ; tympanum distinct , three 

 fourths the diameter of the eye. Tongue oblong , heart- 

 shaped , deeply notched behind ; vomerine teeth in two 

 oblique groups between the choauae , extending beyond the 

 level of their hinder edge. Fingers slender , the second 

 about as long as the first ; toes half-webbed ; the inner 

 metatarsal tubercle narrow , indistinct , the outer one rather 

 large, prominent; disks of fingers and toes small. The 

 hind limb being carried forwards along the body , the heel 

 reaches the tip of the snout. A narrow glandular fold 

 along the sides of the back ; another one from the angle 

 of the shoulder , interrupted on the middle of its length ; 

 skin smooth , except below the vent. Male with a large 

 fiat gland at the base of the arm. 



Colour : (spirit-specimens) above light brown , with dark 

 spots , which more or less conflue on the middle of the back 

 in a longitudinal line, bifurcating at the base of the cau- 

 dal vertebra ; a dark band from the nostril to the loin ; 

 hind limbs cross-barred ; hinderside of thighs marbled with 

 dark spots. Upper lip and glandular folds white. Beneath 

 yellowish , immaculate or spotted on the breast; an obli- 

 que brown streak on the humeral joint. 



Length from snout to vent 40 m.m. 



Java (S. Muller). 



Notes from the Leytleii M!useuiii , "Vol. V. 



