134 RANIDA. 
smaller than the eye, scarcely distinct. Fingers webbed at the 
base ; toes scarcely webbed, the fourth very long; tips of fingers 
and toes dilated into well-developed disks; a large metatarsal 
tubercle. Skin smooth above; belly and lower surface of thighs 
eranular. Upper surfaces ashy green; flanks brownish, with a few 
round yellowish spots ; upper lip white-margined ; a brown, white- 
edged line extends from the tip of the snout, through the eye, 
along each side of the body to the vent ; near the latter it sends up 
a short perpendicular branch, dilated at the top. Hinder side of 
thighs brown, with a few small yellow spots. Yellowish white 
beneath. 
Mossamedes, W. Africa. 
3. Hylambates viridis. (Prater XII. fig. 5.) 
Hylambates viridis, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, p. 487. 
Vomerine teeth in two small groups between the choane. Tym- 
panum half the width of the eye. Fingers free, toes one third- 
webbed, the tips dilated into small disks ; a large, compressed, inner 
metatarsal tubercle. The hind limb being carried forwards along 
the body, the tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the tympanum. Skin 
smooth, granular on the belly and under the thighs. Greenish or 
brownish above, immaculate or with two or four longitudinal dark- 
brown stripes. 
W. Africa. 
a. ©. W. Africa. (Type.) 
b, 2, W. Africa. 
fae SB Angola. J. J. Monteiro. 
d. 9. P Sir A. Smith [P.]. 
Poe —? College of Surgeons. 
4. Hylambates maculatus. 
Hylambates maculatus, A. Dum. Ann. Se. Nat. (8) xix. p. 165, 
pl. 7; Peters, Arch. f. Naturg. 1855, p. 56. 
Vomerine teeth in two small groups between the choane. Tym- 
panum nearly half the width of the eye. Fingers free, toes half 
webbed; disks moderate; a very small, blunt, inner metatarsal 
tubercle. The hind limb being carried forwards along the body, 
the tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the tympanum. Skin smooth, 
granular on the belly and under the thighs. Upper parts olive, 
with large insuliform dark-brown, light-edged spots; limbs cross- 
barred. Male with two subgular vocal sacs, and a small adhesive 
disk on the throat. 
E. Africas 
Tree Rovuma Bay. sir’ J. Kirk [ea 
BG. Shiré Valley, Zambesi. 
e. 9: Mozambique, Prof. Peters [P.]. 
d-f. 39. Zanzibar. «. Sir J. Kirk [C.]. 
