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another one along the outer edge of the fifth toe, extending 

 a little along fore-arm and tarsus; heel with a small, bilobate 

 dermal flap; belly, throat and posterior surface of thighs 

 granulate; some large tubercles near the vent. 



Colour in life: back light green (greyish blue in spirit), 

 speckled with lighter; sides of body and limbs marbled with dark 

 green and yellow (in spirit violet and white); throat and belly 

 with red vermiculation. Length 70 mm. 



Habitat: Celebes (Tuwa, Palu valley). 



10. Rhacophorus javanus Bttgr. 



? Rhacophorus moschata (nomen nudum), Kuhl en v. Hasselt, Alg. Konst- en 



Letter-bode, 1822, p. 104. 

 ? Hyla margaritifera Schlegel, Abbild. neuer oder unvollst. bek. Amph., Dtissel- 



dorf, 1837—44, p. 107. 

 Rhacophorus javanus Boettger, Zool. Anz., XVI, 1893, p. 338. 

 Rhacophorus javanus v. Kampen, Weber's Zool. Ergebn., Leiden, IV. 1907, p. 402. 

 Polypedates javanus Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard Coll., XLIV, I, 



1912, p. 68, pi. VIII, fig. 31. 

 Rhacophorus javanus v. Kampen, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. -Indie, LXIX,' ^09, p. 42, 



pi. II, figs. 7, 8 (tadpole). -^ 



Vomerine teeth in two oblique series beginning from the 

 inner front edges of the choanae. Head broader than long; 

 snout feebly projecting, as long as the upper eyelid, longer 

 than deep; canthus rostralis rather distinct; loreal region oblique, 

 concave ; nostril nearer to the tip of the snout than to the eye ; 

 interorbital space a little broader than the upper eyelid; tym- 

 panum 2 / 5 to '/ 2 the diameter of the eye. Disks of three outer 

 fingers about half the diameter of the eye, of inner finger 

 and of toes smaller; first finger shorter than second, which is 

 shorter than fourth; the three outer fingers '/ 2 to 2 / 3 webbed, 

 the first one only at the base; fifth toe a little longer than 

 third ; the web between the toes reaches all the disks, except 

 that of fourth toe, the penultimate phalanx of which is only in 

 eluded by a narrow fringe ; subarticular tubercles small, single 

 a small inner, no outer metatarsal tubercle; no tarsal fold 

 the heel reaches a little beyond the tip of the snout ; tibia a 

 little more than half the length of head and body. 



Smooth above; a transverse ridge above the vent, a trian- 

 gular dermal flap at the heel and ridges along the outer edges 

 of fore-arm, outer finger, tarsus and fifth toe; a fold above 



