264 ENGTSTOMATIDJ. 



283. Callula piilchra. 



Gray, 1. c. ; Giiiitb. Eept, Brit. Ind. p. 437 (1864) ; Boiileng. Cat. 



Batr. Ecaud. p. 170 (1882); id. Faim. Brit. Ind., Kept. p. 494 



(1890); S. Flower, P.Z.S. 1896, p. 908, and 1899, p. 906; 



Laidlaw, P. Z. S. 1900, p. 888 ; A. I.. Butler, Jouni. Nat. Hist. 



Soc. Bombay, xv, p. 390 (1904). 

 Hylcedadyhts bivittatus, Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xvi, 



p. 1064 (1847). 



Snout short, rouaded, as long as or shorter than the orbit. 

 Fingers rather slender, first shorter than second, the tips dilated 

 into well-developed truncated disks ; toes jnoderate, slightly 

 webbed at the base, the tips swollen ; subarticular tubercles well 

 developed ; two metatarsal tubercles, inner large, compressed, 

 with rather sharp edge. The tarso-metatarsal articidation reaches 

 the axil, the shoulder, or a little beyond. Skin smooth, or back 

 with flat smooth tubercles ; a fold from the eye to the shoulder, 

 and another, more or less distinct, across the head behind the 

 eyes. Yellow or pink above, usually with a large rich dark brown 

 spot covering nearly the whole of the back, and a dark lateral 

 stripe ; sometimes with irregular yellowish spots on the back ; a 





Fig. 73. — Callula pulchra. 



faint black vertebral line may be present; limbs grey, mottled 

 with dark brown, and with more or less distinct yellow spots: 

 dirty buff beloAv, chin and throat black in the male, Male with 

 an external subgular vocal sac. 



From snout to vent 75 millim. 



India, Ceylon, and Southern China to the Malay Peninsula. 

 Very locally distributed in the Peninsula ; known" from Jalor, 

 Selangor, Kelantan, Trengganu, Malacca, and Singapore. Probably 

 introduced into the southei-n portions of the Peninsula, as it is 

 only found in large towns. Known as the " Bnll-frog " by the 

 English in Singapore, and detested for the noise it makes at 



