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nal folds ; a curved fold from the eye to the shoulder. lyower 

 parts smooth. 



Greyish or reddish-brown above, with blackish spots which 

 may be confluent to form two or four bands along the back ; 

 dark vertical bars on the lips, two of which usually proceed from 

 the eye ; an oblique light streak from the eye to the shoulder ; 

 limbs with more or less regular dark cross-bars ; hinder side of 

 thighs yellow, marbled with black ; a narrow or broad yellow verte- 

 bral streak constanth' present ; often a yellow line along the calf. 

 I,ower parts white. 



Male with a vocal sac on each side, forming folds on the 

 throat ' the sides of which are black ; minute granular excrescences 

 on the back and sides and also, verj- crowded, on the throat and 

 belly during the breeding season ; fore limb rather robust ; a 

 strong pad on the inner side of the first finger. 



Skull as in R. limnocharis. 



Measurements in millimetres. 



Habitat. Hills of Southern India. The type specimen, pre- 

 served in the Berlin Museum, is labelled as from Pegu, purchased 

 of a dealer. 



The longer hind limbs distinguish this species from the t3"pi- 

 cal R. limnocharis, but not from the var. nilagirica ; it differs how- 

 ever from both in the much shorter web between the toes, and, 

 although one might feel inclined to regard R. hrevipahnata as one 

 of the local varieties of R. limnocharis , I am of opinion that it 

 deserves the rank assigned to it b}^ Peters. 



1 In one of the specimens (Malabar) there is a single, very strong fold, on 

 each side, touching the lower border of the base of the arm, thus foreshadowing the 

 condition of the cleft in the African R. bibroni. 



