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 15- Rhacophorus modestus Blgr. 



Rhacophorns inodcstus Boulenger, Jrn. Fed. Malay St. Mus., VIII, 1920, p. 293. 



Vomerine teeth in two oblique series between the choanae. 

 Head as long as broad ; snout rounded, as long as the upper 

 eyelid; canthus rostralis distinct, straight or slightly curved; 

 loreal region oblique, slightly concave; nostril a little nearer to the 

 end of the snout than to the eye; interorbital space as broad as 

 or a little broader than the upper eyelid ; tympanum distinct, '/._, 

 or Y3 the width of the eye. Fingers and toes with large disks, 

 those of outer fingers as large as the tympanum, those of 

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

 which is shorter than fourth; outer fingers '/g, toes Y3 webbed; 

 subarticular and inner metatarsal tubercles feeble, no outer 

 metatarsal tubercle; the heel reaches the eye or between eye 

 and tip of snout; tibia about half the length of head and body. 



Smooth above, belly and lower surface of thighs granular. 



Grey or brown above, sometimes darker on the sides, usu- 

 ally with a white streak or a series of white spots along the 

 flanks; a dark canthal and temporal streak; limbs with dark 

 cross-bands; lower parts white, uniform or spotted with brown. 

 From snout to vent 41 mm. 



Male with a subgular vocal sac. 



Habitat: Sumatra (Sungai Kumbang, 1400 m., Kurintji; 

 Kurintj! peak, 2200 m. !). 



16. Rhacophorus edentulus F. Mull. 



Rhacophorus eJcntiilus F. Miiller, Verb, naturf. Ges. Basel, X, 1895, p. 840, S69. 

 Khacophortis ede/ittilus Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1897, p. 234, pi. 

 XVI, fig. 2. 



Vomerine teeth absent, or reduced to two very small, in- 

 distinct groups near the inner edges of the rather large choanae. 

 Snout rounded, a little shorter than the orbit; canthus rostralis 

 distinct; loreal region slightly concave; nostril nearer to the tip 

 of the snout than to the eye ; interorbital space as broad as the 

 upper eyelid ; tympanum moderately distinct, ^Z, to '/^ the 

 diameter of the eye. Disks of fingers as large as or a little 

 larger than the tympanum ; outer fingers half 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 

 tip of the snout or beyond. 



