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anterior one smooth, the posterior one denticulated. Tympanum 

 hidden. Fingers free '), toes free or webbed, the tips usually- 

 more or less dilated. Outer metatarsals united. 



No procoracoids, clavicles or omosternum. Terminal phalanges 

 triangular or T-shaped. 



Tadpoles. — Eyes lateral. Spiraculum and vent median. 

 Tip of tail simply pointed. Mouth terminal, the upper lip 

 feebly developed; papillae and teeth absent. 



Distribution: eastern Asia, to western part of the Malay 

 Archipelago. 



Synopsis of the Species. 



A. Metatarsal tubercles present. 



I. Inner metatarsal tubercle blunt-edged. Diameter 



of disk of third finger more than half that of eye. 1. K. balcata p. 148. 

 II. Inner metatarsal tubercle sharp-edged. Diameter 



of disk of third finger less than half that of eye. 2. K. pulchra p. 150. 



B. Metatarsal tubercles absent 3. K. (?) sundana p. 151. 



I. Kaloula baleata (S. Mull.). 



Bombinator baleatus S. Midler, Verh. Batav. Gen., XVI, 1836, p. 96. 



? Hylacdactylus lividus (nomen nudum) Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. -Indie, XIV, 



1857, p. 239. 

 Calohyla celebensis (Gthr.) Peters, Monatsber. Akad. Berlin, 1872, p. 585. 

 Callula baleata Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., 1882, p. 169 (with figs. 



of hand and foot). 

 Callula baleata v. Kampen, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned.-Indie, LXIX, 1909, p. 47 (tadpole). 

 Kaloula baleata Barbour, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philadelphia, 1909, pi. XVIII, fig. 6 



(terminal phalanx). 

 Kaloula baleata Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard Coll., XLIV, 1, 



1912, p. 72. 



Head much broader than long; snout short, rounded, as 

 long as or a little shorter than the upper eyelid ; canthus 

 rostralis rounded; loreal region oblique; nostril nearer the tip 

 of the snout than the eye ; interorbital space broader than 

 the upper eyelid. Tips of fingers with large, triangular disks; 

 diameter of the disk of the third finger more than half the 

 diameter of the eye, of second and fourth finger nearly as 

 large, of first finger a little smaller; tips of toes feebly dilated, 

 first finger shorter than second, which is a little shorter than 

 fourth ; third toe distinctly longer than fifth ; toes webbed at 

 the base, the web not extending beyond the first phalanx; 



1) See K '. (?) sundana p. 151. 



