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3. EhACOPHORUS MALABARIOUS. 



Rhacophorus malabaricus, Jerdon, Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 1870, p. 84 ; 

 Blgr. Cat. 1882, p. 90. Woodcut. 



Hyla reinwardtii, part. Schleg. Abhild. p. 105, pi. 30, fig. 3. 

 Eiliacophorus reinwardtii, part. Dum. 8f Bihr, p. 532, pi. 89, fig. 1. 



Fingers entirely webbed ; heel with a dermal appendage ; granules 

 under the thighs intermixed with larger ones. Colour and markings 

 (of spirit specimens) : purplish above, often speckled all over with 

 blackish ; no spots on the sides of the body^ or on the membrane between 

 the fingers and toes. 



This species, according to Boulenger, is. very closely allied to, and 

 differs chiefly by coloration from R. reimoardtii, concerning which species 

 Jerdon says {I.e., p. 84) " I recorded Rhacophonis reinwardtii apud, 

 Dmn. and Bibr., from Malabar in my catalogue ^, whence it was also 



procured by the French collectors Major Beddome has 



sent me a specimen, on comparing which with Khasi specimens a 

 perceptible difference is apparent. The head and body of the Malabar 

 are indistinctly, though finely, tuberculated ; the habit is more slender, 

 and there is a distinct fold of skin over the eye in reinwardtii, absent 

 in this. The head too is perhaps a trifle longer. I shall provisionally 

 call it Rhacophorus malabaricus. It has the spots on the sides of the body 

 so conspicuous in Khasi specimens of reinwardtii. 



Specimens in the British Museum from Malabar. 



4. Rhacophorus beddomit. 



Rhacophorus beddomii, Blgr. Cat. 1882, p. 468. 



Tympanum two-flfths the width of the eye ; fingers and toes webbed 

 to the discs, which are as large as the tympanum ; a small inner meta- 

 tarsal tubercle ; upper surface with very small smooth tubercles ; beneath 

 granulate. Colour and markings (of spirit specimens) : light reddish 

 brown above, indistinctly variegated with grey. From snout to vent 

 49 mm. 



A specimen in the British Museum from the Calcad hills, Tinnevelly 

 (3,000 feet). 



6, Rhacophorus lateralis. 



Rhacophorus lateralis, Blgr. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 5, Vol. XII. 

 1883, p. 162. 



Tympanum half the diameter of the eye ; three outer fingers nearly 

 entirely webbed ; toes nearly entirely webbed ; discs of fingers and toes 

 smaller than the tympanum ; a rather indistinct inner metatarsal 

 tubercle ; skin smooth, granular on the belly and under the thighs. ^ 

 Colour and markings (of spirit specimens): purplish above, white beneath; 

 head and back with dark dots ; coloured parts of limbs with dark cross 

 lines ; a white streak on each side from the nostril along the outer edge 



^ " RhachopTiorus Reinwardtii, Bum. and Bihr. Found in the Malabar Coast on trees, 

 and in grass during the monsoon. Not very common." Jerdon, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 1853, p. 532. 



