80 REPTILES. 



nences on the upper parts, beneath the anus and on the heel ; fore- 

 arm and metatarsus fringed. Tympanum round, half the width of 

 eye. (Intermediate form between Polypedates and Rhacophorus.) 

 Length of body 1|"; length of hinder extremity 2-1"; length of 

 front extremity 1^". 



a. Philippine Islands. 



5. Polypedates eques. (Plate VI. fig. B.) 



Fingers very slightly webbed. Vomerine teeth between the inner 

 nostrils in two rather oblique series. Snout pointed ; keel with a 

 cutaneous spur ; tympanum elHptic, half the width of the eye ; 

 along the under-arm and tarsus a white cutaneous fold ; a white 

 band from the top of the snout to the base of the leg. 



a. Half-grown male. Ceylon. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 

 h-f. Adult. Ceylon. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 



Description. — Habit slender. Head depressed, triangular, with 

 broad flat crown, angular canthus rostrahs, and pointed muzzle ; 

 loreal region grooved ; nostril round, lateral, just below the canthus, 

 nearer the end of snout ; eye large ; tympanum elliptic, oblique, 

 half as large as eye ; a narrow glandular fold from the back edge of 

 eye above the tympanum to the shoulder ; upper parts quite smooth, 

 under-side finely granular; anus siuTounded by yellowish, rather 

 prominent warts. Disks of fingers rather broad, of toes moderate ; 

 second finger shorter than fourth ; membrane between the toes 

 reaching to half the length of fourth toe, and to the disk of the 

 four other ones ; fifth toe hardly longer than the third ; at the base 

 of the first a small tubercle ; subarticular tubercles moderate. 

 Eustachian tubes larger than the inner nostrils ; tongue pear-shaped, 

 deeply notched behind ; male with the usual sHts on the sides of 

 the tongue, and with two internal subgular vocal sacs beneath the 

 angle of mouth. Above greyish, with a darker, large triangular 

 spot, tapering on the shoulder, and again widening posteriorly ; 

 beneath the canthus rostralis an indistinct blackish-ash streak ; a 

 yellow line from the end of snout, along the margin of upper lip, 

 beneath the tympanum to the base of leg ; beneath uniform yellowish ; 

 hinder extremities with darker cross-bands. Length of body If" ; 

 length of front extremity 1" ; length of hinder extremity 2-|-". 



6. Polypedates burgeri. 



Hyla biirgeri, Schleg. Faun. Jcqwn. t. 3. f. 7, 8. 

 Biirgeria subversicolor, Tschudi, Batr. p. 75. 

 Polypedates biirgeri, Dum, 8f Bihr. p. 521. 



Fingers very sHghtly webbed. Vomerine teeth in a straight line 

 on a level with the front edge of the inner nostrils, interrupted in 

 the middle. Skin of back tubercular. Tympanum distinctly smaller 

 than eye ; crown not bony. Japan. 



