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C. Tij>s of fi)ifjers and foes more or less dilated. 



1. A gluuilulur lateral fold. 



o. Tips of fiugers and toes simply swollen. 



Toes half webbed ; tibio-tarsal articulation reaching the eye. 



10. malaharica, p. 28, 



Toes nearly entirely webbed ; tibio-tarsal articulation reaching the 

 eye; head large. 11. curtipes, p. 28. 



b. Tips of fingers and toes dilated into regular discs ; vomerine teeth 

 extending beyond the level of the hinder edge of the choanse. 



Interorbital space as broad as the upper eyelid ; tympanum three- 

 fourths the size of the eye. 12. temporalis^ p. 29. 



2. No glandular lateral fold. 



a. Vomerine teeth not extending beyond the level of the hinder 

 edge of the choanaa. 



Upper surface very warty ; toes one-fourth webbed. 



13. phrynodcrma,Yt. 27. 



b. Vomerine teeth extending beyond the level of the hinder edge 

 of the choanae ; a free conical papilla on the middle of the tongue ; 

 discs of fingers and toes small. 



Toes two-thirds webbed. 14. beddomii, p. 26. 



. Toes half webbed. 15, semipalmata, p. 27. 



Toes one-third webbed. 16. leptodactyla, p, 27. 



Toes one-third webbed ; a black spot on the loin. 



17. diplosticto, p. 27, 



1. Raxa hex.vdactyla [Plate III], 



Eana hexadaotyla, Lesson in Belang. Voij. Ind. Or. Repf. p. 331 ; 

 T-srhudi, Batr. p. 80 ; Sfeindac/in Sovara. Amph. p. 19 ; Giiiitli. Cat. 

 1858, p. 11, and Kept. Brit. lad. 1864, p. 405, and Proc. Zuol. 8oc. 1875, 

 p. 568 ; Blgr. Cat. 1882, p. 17. 



Dactylethra bengalensis. Lesson, III. Zool. pi, 47. 



Hana cutipora. Dam. t^ Bibr. p. 339 ; Jordan, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 1853, p. 531. 



liana robusta, BUjth. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1854, j). 298. 



Skin smooth, with rows of pores round the neck, sides, and belly ; 

 toes and fingers pointed, the first finger extending a little beyond the 

 second ; toes webbed to the tips ; fourth toe not very much longer than 

 third and fifth ; a membranaceous fringe along the margins of the first 

 and fifth toes ; metatarsus with a single small inner conical tubercle. 

 Colour generally bright grass-green, rapidly changing in spii-it to 

 chocolate brown, with a central green or yellow stripe (vertebral line) 

 along the middle of the back, but the presence of this stripe is not 

 constant. 



This species is very common in tanks and along the banks of rivers 

 throughout Southern India, Length of the body of the largest specimen 

 in the Madras Museum, measiured from the tip of the nose to the vent, 



