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almost complete grading between the two, I am no longer in favour 

 of reviving Jerdon's species. 



The pale streak or spot between the eye and the commissure 

 of the jaws, which Annandale points out as characteristic, is also 

 to be seen in some of the other specimens from the Nilgiries, as well 

 as in a form from the Mala}^ Peninsula. 



[I have recently examined a very large series of specimens in 

 the Nilgiries. Individuals that conform more or less closely to the 

 varietal type occur all over the plateau and also in the gorge of 

 the Bhavani River at the base of the hills. With them are found 

 individuals that could hardly be distinguished from the forma 

 typica. 



This frog lives at the edge of small springs and ditches and in 

 patches of marshy ground on the hill-side. It breeds in stagnant 

 water.— A^. .4.]. 



M easuremtnts in millimetres. 



I. Nilgiries. 2. Malabar. 3. Madras Presidency. 



Habitat. Nilgiri and Shevaroy hills, Madras Presidency. 



Var. syhadrensis, Annand. 



Described as " a dwarfed race akin to the subsp. nilagirica, 

 but of much smaller stature and with the hind limbs as a rule 

 shorter. The first finger hardly extends beyond the second ; the 

 hind feet are as in the typical form except that the webbing is 

 slightly less extensive and the tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the 

 anterior border of the eye or a point between it and the tip of 

 the snout. The dorsal surface is gray with black spots sometimes 

 with a reddish suffusion ; a narrow pale mid-dorsal line is often 

 present ; the ventral surface is white, with the whole of the throat 

 black in the adult male." 



