350 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vor oe 
lip is strongly developed, directed backwards; the upper is not 
prominent. The distribution of tubercles varies; they are generally 
absent or only sparsely present on the upper lip, while stronger 
ones fringe the corners and the lower lip. The dental formula is 
liable to vary. It may probably be expressed thus :— 
B35 715 — 7A te 
The uninterrupted tooth rows on both the lips are longest.? 
The lower jaw is V-shaped with granulate or dentate edge. The 
upper beak is broadly crescentic. Almost every specimen in the 
Parotoid. Spiracle. 
B. 
Fie. 1.—Tadpoles of Rhacophorus pleurostictus. 
A. Lateral view. B. Mouth, showing the beak, tooth-rows and tubercles. 
collection shows the lower jaw to be cornified, but the upper beak 
is very fully developed. No glandular swellings are present at the 
corners of the mouth. 
Skin and glands.—In specimens in which the hind limbs have 
not developed, the skin is smooth and no whitish glandular pits 
occur. When the hind limbs have grown, the dorsal surface is 
beset with numerous cutaneous glands, which are distributed 
over the head as well. ‘Iwo most conspicuous large oval paro- 
toids, twice the diameter of the eye, are present; they may be 
In the specimens in my collection I could discover no horny teeth, only 
bare ridges; but Dr. Annandale, to whom examples have been sent, states that 
he has found patches of small teeth in a few. 
