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of tliighs not coloured ; sometimes with brown vermiculations ; beneath 

 immaculate. 



Specimens in the British Museum from Malabar. 



Specimens in the Madras Museum from Pycara and Coonoor 

 (Nilgiris) : length of body 1| inch, hind leg if inch ; generally greenish 

 yellow on iipper surface with black or yellow markings ; cross-bars on 

 hind limbs brown. In a single specimen the colour of the upper surface 

 was burnt red, fading to yellow on the thighs and sides. 



4. NYCTIBATEACHUS. 



" This new genus is related to Rana by the general characters, to 

 Rhacophorus by the structure of the distal phalanges, but differs from 

 both by the erect pupil." {Blyr. Cat.). 



1. Nyctibatrachus pygm^us [Plate YIII. Ij. 



Nyctibatrachus pygmseus, Blgr. Cat. 1882, p. 113, pi. XII, fig. 1. 



Rana pygmsea, Gunth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 568. 



Habit stout ; vomerine teeth in two small oblique series behind the 

 level of the choanse. Toes half -webbed^ the tips swollen into very 

 small discs ; a small, blunt, oval, inner metatarsal tubercle. Skin 

 smooth, with some glandular folds on the head and front part of the 

 back. Colour and markings (of spirit specimens) : dark brown above, 

 with rather indistinct blackish markings ; light brown beneath. 



Specimens in the British Museum from the Anamallays. Also 

 collected by Colonel Beddome in Malabar. 



2. Nyctibatrachus major [Plate VIII. 2]. 



Nyctibatrachus major, Blgr. Cat. 1882, p. 114, pi. XII, fig. 2. 



Habit stout ; vomerine teeth in two straight series (oblique in the 

 young), much behind the level of the choanse. Toes nearly entirely 

 webbed ; tips of fingers and toes swollen into small discs ; a small, 

 elongate, scarcely prominent inner metatarsal tubercle. Above with 

 very small, closely set vermiculated folds ; upper eyelid covered with 

 strong tubercles. Colour and markings (of spirit specimens) : brown 

 above, with rather indistinct darker and lighter markings ; brownish 

 beneath, more or less speckled with brown. 



Specimens in the British Museum from Malabar and the Wynaad. 



5. NANNOBATRACHUS. 



1. Nannobatrachus beddomii. 



1. Nannobatrachus beddomii, Blgr. Cat. 1882, p. 470. 



Habit stout ; pupil erect ; vomerine teeth in two oblique oval 

 groups behind the level of the choanoe ; toes with a slight rudiment 

 of a web ; discs very small ; a very indistinct inner metatarsal tubercle, 

 skin quite smooth. Colour and markings (of spirit specimens) : brown 

 above, variegated with darker ; generally a more or less defined light 



