72 RErxiLES. 



Tympauum distinct ; eustacliian tubes moderate ; tongiie elongate, 

 broader, free and deeply notched behind. Sacral vertebra not di- 

 lated. Males with an internal snbgiilar vocal sac- East Indies ; 

 West Africa. 



Limnodytes, Dum. 8j- Bihr. y\\\. p. 510. 

 Hylarana, Polvpedates, sp., Tschndi, Batr. p. 78. 

 Ilj-la, sp., Schlegel, Abbild. pp. 24, 57. 



1. Hylarana macrodactyla. (Plate II. fig. C.) 



Snout very much elongate, pointed ; fourth toe two-thirds the 

 length of body ; toes half- webbed ; on each side of back a narrow 

 white glandular fold ; a white vertebral line ; a whitish streak along 

 the upper lip. 



a, h. Adult and half-grown. Hong Kong, Presented by J. C. 



Bowring, Esq. 

 C; d. Adult and half-grown. China. Presented by J. R. Eeeves, 



Esq. 

 c. Half-gro\vn. China. 

 /. Half-grown : bad state. China. 



Description. — Habit very slender ; head much elongate, with flat 

 crown, rather rounded canthus rostralis, and long pointed muzzle ; 

 upper jaw reaching far beyond the lower one ; loreal region grooved ; 

 nostril oval, lateral, just below the canthus rostrahs, nearer the end 

 of snout than the eye. Eye moderate, prominent ; tympanum large, 

 nearly the width of eye, just above the angle of mouth. Extremities 

 slender, with small, rather indistinct disks ; fingers quite free ; the 

 third much the longest, first and second nearly equal in length, the 

 fourth rather longer ; subarticular tubercles moderate ; toes very long 

 and slender, half- webbed, fourth much the longest, fifth longer than 

 thii'd ; at the base of the fij'st finger a tubercle, rather smaller than 

 the subarticular ones. Skin quite smooth, only the hinder part of 

 the under side of the thigh granular ; a glandular fold from the back 

 edge of eye along the sides of back. Cleft of mouth long ; tongue 

 large, very long, very deeply notched behind ; palate very narrow ; 

 interior nostrils moderate, eustachian tubes rather larger ; vomerine 

 teeth in two oblique series, convergent posteriorly, between the 

 inner nostiils. Above oHve, with thi'ee parallel white stripes, one 

 from the muzzle to the anus, and the two others along the glandidar 

 folds ; some brown spots between ; sides of body black-spotted ; loreal 

 region blackish, with a white streak from the end of snout passing 

 between tympanum and angle of mouth ; extremities above with ir- 

 regular spots and streaks ; under parts uniform yelloAvish. Length of 

 body li" ; length of cleft of mouth i" ; length of front extremity ■§•" ; 

 length of hinder extremity 3" ; length of third finger ^ ; length of 

 fourth toe 14". 



