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3. Exalus saxicola. 
Polypedates ? saxicola, Jerdon, Jowrn, As. Soc, xxii. p. 533. 
Tongue with a free, pointed papilla in the anterior part of the 
median line. Snout subacuminate, as long as the greatest orbital 
diameter; canthus rostralis angular; loreal region flat, vertical ; 
nostril equally distant from the eye and the tip of the snout; inter- 
orbital space as broad as the upper eyelid ; tympanum small, hidden. 
Fingers free, toes very broadly webbed; disks large; subarticular 
tubercles small; a small inner metatarsal tubercle. The hind limb 
being carried forwards along the body, the tibio-tarsal articulation 
reaches the tip of the snout or somewhat beyond. Skin smooth 
above and beneath; a fold from the eye to the shoulder. Olive- 
brown above, with more or less distinct darker reticulations ; limbs 
cross-barred; throat and breast often marbled with brown. Male 
with two internal vocal sacs, the openings of which are very small. 
Wynaad ; Malabar. 
a. Several spec., d 2. Malabar. T.C. Jerdon, Esq.[P.]. (As 
Polyp. saxicola.) 
b. Many spec., 5. Malabar. Col. Beddome [C.]. 
es ; 
4, Ixalus hypomelas. (Puare X. fig. 4.) 
Ixalus hypomelas, Giinth. Ann. § Mag. N. H. 1876, vii. p. 376. 
Snout obtuse, as long as the greatest orbital diameter; canthus 
rostralis angular; loreal region flat, nearly vertical; nostril nearer 
the tip of the snout than the eye; interorbital space a little broader 
than the upper eyelid; tympanum small, indistinct. Fingers free, 
toes webbed at the base; disks and subarticular tubercles moderate ; 
a small inner metatarsal tubercle. The hind limb being carried 
forwards along the body, the tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the 
tip of the snout or somewhat beyond. Skin smooth above, slightly 
granular beneath. Dark brown above and beneath ; a darker stripe 
on the side of the head and body ; belly and under surface of limbs 
marbled with whitish; often a white line across the breast and 
along the under surface of the fore limbs, crossing another one along 
the throat, breast, and belly ; sometimes a light vertebral line. 
Ceylon. 
a, b, Many spec.: 2, Ceylon. Col. Beddome [C. ]. 
her., & ye. Types. 
c-e. QD. Ceylon. W. Ferguson, Esq. [P.]}. 
Lewd 
5. Exalus oxyrhynchus. (Puave X. fig. 5.) 
Ixalus oxyrhynchus, Giinth. Ann. § Mag. N. H. 1872, ix. p. 88, 
Snout pointed, longer than the orbital diameter ; canthus rostralis 
angular ; loreal region flat, vertical; nostril nearer the tip of the 
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