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Habit stout ; pupil erect ; tongue elliptical ; tympanum hidden ; 

 toes one-third webbed ; tips of fingers and toes not swollen ; two rather 

 large, oval, compressed, very prominent metatarsal tubercles. Skin 

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

 above, sides darker ; a dark brown line from the tip of the snout 

 through the eye along the side of the back to tlie groin ; a dark brown 

 mark across the thigh, beginning on the loin ; limbs with more or less 

 distinct cross bars ; sometimes a dark X-shaped marking on the front 

 of the back, commencing between the eyes ; beneath immaculate, or 

 with a few brown dots on the throat. 



This species is said by Jerdon (I.e.) to be found in the Carnatic 

 near rivei's and sandy banks, and is very common in Madras during 

 the monsoon. 



Specimens in the British Museum from Madras and South India : in 

 the Madras Museum from the Nilgiris (6,000 feet), Tinnevelly and 

 Madras : length of body 1 inch, hind leg If inch. 



2. MiCROHYLA ORNATA. 



Microhyla ornata, B/gr. Cat. 1882, p. 165. 



Diplopelma ornatum, part. Gunth. Cat. 1858, p. 50, and Rept. Brit. 

 Ltd. 1864, p. 417. 



Engystoma ornatum, Duin. 8f Bibr., p. 745. 



Engystoma carnaticum, Jerdon, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1853, p. 534. 



? Engystoma malabaricum, Jerdon, I.e. 



Diplopelma carnaticum, Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1870, 

 p. 154, pi. IX, fig. 5. 



Habit moderately slender ; pupil erect ; tongue elliptical ; tym- 

 panum hidden ; toes rather slender, with a slight rudiment of web ; 

 tips of fingers and toes swollen into very small discs ; two small meta- 

 tarsal tubercles. Skin smooth. Colour and markings (of spirit speci- 

 mens) : reddish or greyish olive above, with a large dark marking on the 

 back, beginning between the eyes, and becoming broader as it extends to 

 the hind part of the body ; on each side of this marking are undulating 

 longitudinal dusky lines, which may be absent ; a dark band along the 

 side of the head and body ; limbs with dark cross-bars ; throat and chest 

 generally greyish or brownish dotted with white ; the remainder of the 

 lower surfaces immaculate. 



This species is said by Jerdon (I.e.) to be found in the Carnatic 

 during the monsoon and has been recorded by Colonel Beddome {Manual 

 of the Nilagiri District, 1880) from the Nilgiris (Walaghdt). 



Specimens in the British Museum from Madras : in the Madras 

 Museum from Tinnevelly : length of body \% inch, hind leg 1| inch. • 



3. CALLULA. 



Synopsis of Species. 

 I. Toes at least one-third webbed. 



Tips of fingers dilated into well-developed discs ; outer metatarsal 

 tubercle minute. 1, ohsenra, p. 42. 



