i8 Records of the Indian Mnseum. [Vol. VIII, 



the leaf-stems of banana-trees. Probably they were hibernating. 

 In all seven specimens were found. 



20. Chirixalus doriae, Boulgr. 



Boulenger, Ann. Mus. Genova (2nd ser.), xiii, p. 341, pi. x, 



fig. 5 1^893)- 

 A single male taken under a log at Kobo (alt. 400 ft.) agrees 

 well with Mr. Boulenger's figure and description. Ch. doriae, 

 which is the only known species of the genus, was originally found 

 by the late Signor Fea in the Karin Hills. 



21. Phrynoderma moloch, sp. nov. 

 (Plate iii, fig. 4.) 



This species differs from Phrynoderma aspenmi, Boulenger/ 

 the only one hitherto known, in several important characters, not- 

 ably in the much more pronounced nature of the asperities on its 

 back. 



Habit slender. Length from snout to vent 41 mm. 



Head short, broad, triangular, depressed; snout about as long 

 as orbit, sinuously truncate transversely, obliquely truncate ver- 

 tically ; nostril close to tip of snout, very prominent; eye large, 

 prominent ; canthus rostralis indistinct ; loreal region almost verti- 

 cal, slightly concave; inter-orbital region slightly concave, broader 

 than upper eye-lid; tympanum fairly distinct, about f as wide as 

 eye. 



Skin. — No suprat3anpanic or dorso-lateral folds; back bearing 

 very prominent ridge-like, more or less serrated, warts which run 

 longitudinally and obliquely ; these warts larger on neck and 

 across shoulders, on v;hich they form A-shaped figures; shorter 

 warts on head and dorsal surface of limbs; throat and ventral 

 surface of limbs smooth ; belly and sides coarsel}^ granular. 



Limbs slender but rather short. Fingers free, slender, flat- 

 tened; disks very large, that on the 3rd finger nearly equalhng 

 the tympanum ; subarticular tubercles small ; external and internal 

 subcarpal tubercles indistinct. Tibio-tarsal articulation reaching 

 tympanum; toes | webbed, the web reaching the disks of all but 

 the 4th, up which it extends as a narrow fringe almost to the disk ; 

 subarticular tubercles small and by no means prominent ; a very 

 small and indistinct internal metatarsal tubercle; no external 

 metatarsal tubercle ; a narrow serrated fringe on the 5th toe and 

 a less distinct serrated ridge running along middle of ventral sur- 

 face of shin. 



Colouration. — Back grey with black spots ; the larger warts 

 buff; the tympanum black; a large black and white diversified 

 patch on each side between the two fore and hind limbs and a 

 white patch in the axilla; external surface of thigh irregularl}' 

 banded and marbled with black, white and grey; ventral surface 



' Ann. Mus. Genova (and ser.), xiii, p. 342, pi. xi, fig. 1. 



