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subarticular tubercles distinct; two metatarsal tubercles, the 

 inner one large, compressed, with blunt edge, the outer one 

 smaller; the tarso-metatarsal articulation reaches the shoulder 

 (in the adult) or the eye (in the young). 



Upper parts smooth, or with small, flat warts ; a fold from 

 the eye to the shoulder, and sometimes another one, more or 

 less indistinct, between the posterior borders of the eyelids ; 

 beneath smooth or wrinkled, except the throat, which may 

 be finely granulate. 



Brown, olive or blackish above, uniform or variegated with 

 darker; a few large, whitish (in the living animal red) spots 



Fig. 21. Kaloitla baleata (S. Mull.), X l - 



on the arm pits, on the loins, and on the limbs; beneath 

 darker or lighter brown, variegated with whitish. Length 76 mm. 



Male with a subgular vocal sac. 



Tadpole. — Agreeing in the position of the eyes, vent 

 and spiracle, and in the characters of the mouth with the 

 tadpole of K. pulchra. 



In Batavia, when the weather is rainy, this toad in the 

 evening and night makes a terrible noise in the ditches. By 

 day it probably lives in holes. The eggs are laid in clumps, 

 in the rainy season. The tadpole generally lives at the surface 

 of the water. 



Habitat: Nias ! ; Sumatra (Agam; Matur!; Batu Sangkar, 



