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webbed, the tips not dilated into regular disks. Outer metatarsals 

 separated by web. Omostenmui with a bony style ; sternum a 

 cartilaginous plate. 



Southern China and Bengal to the Malay Archipelago. 



Two species : — 



Tongue pointed behind ; toes pointed ; belly warty . . O. lima, p. 225. 

 Tongue rounded behind ; tips of toes dilated ; belly 



smooth O, Icevis, p. 225. 



239. Oxyglossus lima. 



Hcma lima, Gravenh. Delic. Mus. Zool. Vratlsl. p. 41 (1829). 

 Oxi/f/lossus lima, Tschudi, 1. c. ; Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 401 



(Y864) ; Bouleng. Cat. Batr. Ecaiid. p. 5 (1882) ; id. Faun. Brit. 



Ind., Rept, p. 436 a890); S. Flower, P. Z. S. 1899, p. 886; 



Laidlaw, P. Z. S. 1900, p. 884 ; Bouleng. Fascic. Malay., Zool. i, 



p. 134 (1903). 



Tongue elongate, extensively fi'ee and pointed behind. Habit 

 stout. Head small ; snout rather pointed, without canthus 

 rostralis ; interorbital space very narrow, much narrower than 

 the upper eyelid. Fingers rather slender, acutely pointed, first 

 not extending beyond second; toes pointed, fourth not very much 

 longer than third and fifth, very broadly webbed ; subarticular 

 tubercles very small ; two metatarsal tubercles, inner the larger 

 and oval, outer subconical ; a short tarsal fold and a small tarsal 

 tubercle just below the tibio-tarsal articulation. The tarso- 

 metatarsal articulation reaches the tip of the snout. Skin warty, 

 the warts most numerous and of unequal size on the back, largest 

 and forming more or less symmetrical rows on the throat and 

 belly. Greenish brown above, with small darker markings ; 

 sometimes a light (yellow or green) vertebral stripe; yellow 

 beneath, with a dark brown band on the arm and along the hinder 

 side of the thigh, and sometimes a brown L-shaped mark on 

 each side at the base of the thighs ; sometimes a brown band, 

 on each side from the chin to the breast. Iris brown, with a 

 narrow gold line round the pupil. Male with an internal vocal sac. 



From snout to vent 33 millim. 



From Bengal and Southern China to the Malay Archipelago. 



Locally distributed in the Malay Peninsula. Recorded from 

 Kedah, Jalor, and Patani. 



A thoroughly aquatic frog, found in small ponds, often indistinctly 

 brackish water. 



Called "Katak lempong " by the Malays of Kedah. 



240. Oxyglossus Isevis. 



Giinth. Cat. Batr. Sal. p. 7, pi. i, fig. A (1858) ; Bouleng. Cat. Batr. 

 Ecaud. p. 6 (1882); id. Faun. Brit. Ind., Rept. p. 437 (1890); 

 S. Flower, P. Z. S. 1896, p. 897 ; Bouleng. P. Z. S. 1897, p. 228 ; 

 Laidlaw, P. Z. S. 1900, p. 884. 



Tongue oval, rounded behind, free in the posterior third or 



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