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Eye and nostril. — Bye lateral, directed outwards ; nostril 

 nearer tip of snout than e3'e. 



Glands. — There is a large gland in front of and slightly below 

 each eye. 



Spiracle sinistral, pointing backwards and a little upwards, 

 flap-like, large. 



Anus dextral. 



Tail long and slender, about twice as long as head and body, 

 sharply pointed ; its outline not strongly sinuous ; fin-membranes 

 deep throughout its length. 



Colouration. — Mottled with dark brown on dorsal surface and 

 sides ; fin-membranes minutely spotted ; ventral surface white. 



Dimensions. — The following are the measurements of a tad- 

 pole with well developed hind legs (A) and of one in which the 

 hind legs are just about to appear (B) : — 



A. B. 



Length . . . . . . 62 mm. 33 mm. 



lycngth of head and body . . . . 20 ,, 12 ,, 



Length of tail .. . .. 42 ,, 21 ,, 



Maximum width of body .. .. 13 ,, 8 ,, 



Maximum depth of body .. .. 10 ,, 7 ,, 



Maximum depth of tail .. .. 14 ,, 8 ,, 



2. Tadpole of Peninsular Indian race {maculains). 

 The larvae of this race differ from those of the Himalayan 

 race in the following points: — 



i. The head and body are flatter above, 

 ii. The lips are even narrower. 



iii. The habit is more slender and the dimensions less, 

 iv. The colour is ver^' pale brown or green with scattered 

 pigment-cells of a darker shade on the back and 

 sides. 

 Both races apparently differ from the Mala}- one in having 

 the outline of the tail less strongly sinuous and in colouration. 

 In all essential structural characters, however, they are identical. 

 Ferguson's Travancore tadpoles differed slight!}' in colouration 

 from m}' Orissa ones. The breeding season in Travancore lasts, 

 according to that author, from June to November ; both in the 

 E. Himalayas and the plains of Lower Bengal, it is in progress in 

 July, August and September. I have never seen the tadpoles of 

 either race in running water. The eggs in their frothy covering 

 are usually laid at the edge of small pools. 



E. Larva of PhrvnodERMa moloch, sp. nov. (Plate iv, fig. 6.) 



The tadpoles are very like those of Ixalus horridus, Blgr.^, 

 but have a longer and more pointed tail, and when full-grown 



1 Report on the Reptiles in Annandale and 'R.o\)\nson''s Fasciculi Malayenses, 

 i. p. 139. p3. vi, figs. 2fl, 2b (1902). 



