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Tongue without a papilla ; snout rounded ; tympanum small, hidden ; 

 fingers slightly, toes two-thirds webbed ; discs moderate ; a very small 

 inner metatarsal tubercle ; skin smooth or minutely granular above ; 

 beneath granular, the granules very large on the belly. Colour and 

 markings (of spirit specimens) : above bluish green, purple or brownish, 

 immaculate or with black specks ; arms colourless, thighs with a stripe 

 of pigment on its upper surface. Single specimens are recorded by 

 Boulenger, in one of which the upper surface had a few large reddish 

 brown spots, while in another the hinder side of the thighs were black- 

 spotted. 



Recorded in the British Museum Catalogue from Ceylon. Several 

 specimens in the Madras Museum, without any record of the locality in 

 which they were found. The upper surfaces of the body and lower leg 

 of one specimen uniformly violet eoloiu'ed. 



7. IXALUS BEDDOMIl [PlATE VII. 1]. 



Ixalus beddomii, Gunth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 575 ; BJgr, Cat. 

 1882, p. 101, pi. X, fig. 7. 



Tongue without a papilla ; tympanum small, hidden ; snout 

 rounded ; fing'ers free, toes half- webbed ; discs moderate ; a small 

 inner metatarsal tubercle. Skin smooth above, granular beneath. 

 Colour and markings (of spirit specimens) : uniform greenish above; 

 thighs colourless, except a greenish stripe along their upper surface. 



Specimens in the British Museum from Malabar, and Atray Mallay, 

 Travancore (4,000 feet). 



8. IxALUS FUIXHER. 



Ixalus pulcher, Blgr. Cat. 1882, p. 469. 



Tongue without a papilla ; snout slightly pointed ; tympanum small 

 and indistinct ; fingers with a rudiment of web ; toes half- webbed ; discs 

 moderate ; a very small inner metatarsal tubercle. Skin smooth above, 

 granular beneath. Colour and markings (of spirit specimens) : blue- 

 green or purplish above, generally uniform, sometimes with small black 

 spots ; a purplish brown streak on canthus rostralis and generally on 

 post-ocular fold ; loreal region white, uniform or with purplish brown 

 spots, or pui'plish brown, dotted or not with whitish ; arms, and gener- 

 ally forearms, colourless ; thighs with a stripe of pigment on their upper 

 surface. From snout to vent 23 mm. 



Specimens in the British Museum from Manantoddy. 



9. IXALUS VARIABILIS [PlATE VII. 2J. 



Ixalus variabilis, G'unth. Cat. 1858. p. 74, pL IV, figs. A and B, 

 and Rept. Brit. Iiul. 18b4, p. 433, and Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 573 ; 

 B/gr. Cat. 1882, p. 102. 



? Phyllomedusa ? wyuaadensis, Jerdon, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1853, 

 p. 5S3. 



Tongue without a papilla ; snout rounded ; tympanum indistinct, 

 about half the width of the eye ; fingers very slightly, toes two-thirds 

 webbed ; discs moderate ; a small inner metatarsal tubercle. Skin 

 smooth above, granular beneath. Colour and markings subject to great 



