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7. Polypedates schlegelii. (Plate VI. fig. C.) 



Hylse arboreae var. japonic?© descript. pars Schleg. in Fauna Japon. 

 p. 112 (individus a iine taille beaucoup plus forte que chez nous — 

 tres vieux sujets — a toutes les parties superieures d'lm vert-pr4 

 uniforme, &c.), pi. 3. f. 5. 



Fingers one-third webbed ; vomerine teeth, in two rather oblique 

 series, beginning from the inner front angle of the interior nostrils ; 

 tongue deejily notched behind. Above uniform bluish green, sides 

 of belly sometimes with small brown specks, beneath uniform whitish ; 

 head without band or spot. (See Hyla viridis, var, japonica.) 

 a, h. Adult and half-grown. Japan. From the Leyden Museum. 

 c. Adult. Japan. From the Leyden Museum. 



All three with the name Hyla viridis japonica. 



Description. — Habit intermediate between Pohjp)edates macidatus 

 and Hyla viridis. Head broad, with rather short muzzle, but not 

 rounded canthus rostralis. A glandular fold from the back edge of 

 eye above the tympanum to the shoulder. Tympanum circular, half 

 the width of the eye, rather indistinct. Fingers one-third Avebbed, 

 with moderate subarticular tubercles and rather broad disks ; toes 

 short, the fourth one-fourth or one-fifth longer than the fifth, the tliird 

 as much longer than the fifth as its disk is broad ; membrane broad, 

 reaching the base of the disks, but deeply notched ; subarticular 

 tubercles moderate ; metatarsus with a blunt tubercle ; tarsus not 

 fringed. Coloration as above mentioned. Tongue broader behind 

 than in front, and deeply notched ; interior nostrils moderate ; 

 vomerine teeth between the nostrils, in two rather oblique series, 

 well separated on the middle of the palate, each beginning from 

 the anterior front angle of nostril. Eustachian tubes moderate. 

 Male with an internal vocal sac and the usual openings on the 

 sides of the tongue. Diapophyscs of the sacral vertebra cyHndiical. 

 Length of body 2i" ; length of hinder extremity Si" ; length of 

 tarsus ^" ; length of foiu'th toe 1" ; length of anterior extremity 1-i-". 



8. Polypedates afghana. 



Fingers quite free. Vomerine teeth in a straight line, on a level 

 with the hinder edge of the inner nostrils, interrupted in the middle. 

 Skin smooth ; tympanum very small, as large as the disk of the 

 finger ; toes very broadly webbed to the disk. 

 c(. Adult female. Afghanistan. Presented by Mr. Griffith. 

 h, c. Larvae. Afghanistan. Presented by the East India Compan3% 



To the above-mentioned characters may be added : — 

 Habit as in P. mciculatus ; snout angailar, rather high ; nostril on 

 the canthus rostralis in the middle betAveen the eye and top of 

 snoiit ; tympanum distant from the eye ; inner nostrils moderate ; 

 eustachian tubes rather larger ; disks rather large. Subarticular 

 tubercles very conspicuous, oblong ; metatarsus Avith a very small 

 blunt tubercle. Above brown, variegated with greyish. Length of 

 body 3" ; length of front extremity 2i" ; length of hinder one 6". 



