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between snout and eyes. Internasal space about one-seventh the 

 interorbital. Mouth terminal, both Hps contractile and the lower 

 occasionally with a horny rim and microscopic papillae which may 

 extend to the corners of the mouth. A sensory groove connecting nos- 

 trils and eye. 



Spiracle a large tube, notched behind ; anal tube median. Tip of 

 tail pointed but not flagellate ; both lobes of equal depth, and arched. 

 Greatest depth of tail about one-third the total length. 



Body brownish, or gray with minute black spots ; occasionally a 

 blue spot in the groin ; muscular part of tail blotched. 



The following are the measurements of a fully grown tadpole : — 



Total length 

 Length of body 

 Length of tail . 

 Maximum width of body 

 Maximum dejjth of body 

 Maximum depth of tail 



mm. 

 45 

 15 

 30 

 10 

 8 

 10 



In the aquarium these tadpoles were noticed to hide themselves 

 under stones and avoid the lighted portion and in ponds they secrete 

 themselves in the deeper recesses, darting to the surface periodically 

 for the purpose of breathing. The metamorphosis is completed in 20 to 

 30 days in the aquarium, but in nature I have noticed it is over in a 

 fortnight. 



Kaloula triangularis (Giinther.). 



In South India this frog is more common in the hills^, but is also 

 frequently met with in the plains under a heap of dried leaves or other 

 suitable cover in close proximity to pools of rain-water. Little is known 

 about the habits of the adult. 



Fig. 2. — Larva of Kaloula trianqularis. 

 A. Side view. B. Ventral view, C. Mouth-parts. 



^ Ferguson, c/oMrw. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, Vol. .XV, p. 507. 



