26l 



1 8. Rhacophorus monticola Blgr. 



Rhacophorus monticola Boulenger, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (6) XVIII, 1896, p. 395. 

 Rhacophorus monticola Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1897, p. 234, pi. 



XVI, fig. 3. 

 Rhacophorus monticola v. Kampen, Weber's Zool. Ergebn., Leiden, IV, 1907, 



p. 403 (tadpole). 



Vomerine teeth in two oblique series between the choanae. 

 Snout more or less pointed, as long as the orbit; canthus 

 rostralis distinct; loreal region slightly concave; nostril equally 

 distant from the eye and the tip of the snout; interorbital 

 space as broad as the upper eyelid; tympanum moderately 

 distinct, half the diameter of the eye. Disks of fingers as 

 large as or a little larger than the tympanum; outer fingers 

 2 / 3 webbed ; toes webbed to the disks of the third and fifth, 

 penultimate phalanx of fourth free; subarticular tubercles feeble; 

 a very small inner metatarsal tubercle ; no tarsal fold ; the 

 heel reaches the eye or the anterior border of the orbit. 



Finely shagreened above, granulate on the belly and under 

 the thighs ; a fold above the tympanum. 



Coloration very variable. Greyish or green (bluish or purplish 

 in spirit) above, uniform or with scattered small yellow spots, 

 or dotted, spotted or vermiculate with darker, or with large 

 symmetrical markings, viz. a cross-band between the eyes, an 

 hourglass- or X-shaped blotch on the anterior part of the 

 back, and a cross-band on the sacrum ; limbs with dark cross- 

 bands; flanks white, or purple with large white spots; lower 

 parts white. From snout to vent 48 mm. 



Male without vocal sacs. 



Description of tadpoles from Loka, probably belonging to 

 this species : 



Length of body nearly 1 '/ 2 times its width; tail i'/ 2 to 2 

 times the length of the body. Nostril equally distant from 

 the tip of the snout and the eye ; eyes superior, about as far 

 from the end of the snout as from the spiraculum, the distance 

 between them much larger than that between the nostrils, 

 about equal to the width of the mouth, and about half the 

 width of the body; spiraculum sinistral, lateral, directed upwards 

 and backwards, in the middle between end of snout and vent; 

 vent dextral, above the lower border of the crest of the tail. 

 Tail pointed, the upper crest reaches the base of the tail. 



The whole lower and lateral borders of lips with papillae; 



