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supraocular ; one prae- and one postocular ; diameter of the 

 eye exceeding its distance from the mouth ; five upper 

 labials, third and fourth entering the eye ; anterior chin- 

 shields in contact with the symphysial ; posterior chin-shields 

 shorter and in contact with each other. Scales in 13 rows. 

 Ventrals 153-187; anal entire; subcaudals 12-21. Tail 

 ending in a point. Coloration very variable. Dark brown 

 above, uniform or spotted with black, reddish brown, or 

 brick-red, the scales speckled and edged with black ; a black 

 streak on each side of the head, passing through the eye ; 

 upper lip white ; white beneath, the ventrals edged or spotted 

 with black, or edged with vermilion ; a black or red band 

 between two white ones along the lower surface of the tail. 



Total length 1900 millim. ; tail 16. 



Several specimens from Loka, Bonthain Peak, about 

 3500 feet. 



This species is named in memory of my late friend 

 Dr. F. Muller, of Basle, who had undertaken the working 

 out of the Drs. Sarasin's herpetological collections. 



Ehacophorus monticola. 



Vomerine teeth in two oblique series between the choanas. 

 Snout more or less pointed, as long as the diameter of 

 the orbit; canthus rostralis distinct, loreal region slightly 

 concave ; nostril equally distant from the eye and the end of 

 the snout ; interorbital space as broad as the upper eyelid ; 

 tympanum moderately distinct, half the diameter of the eye. 

 Outer fingers two-thirds webbed ; disks of fingers large, as 

 large as or a little larger than the tympanum ; 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 tibio-tarsal articu- 

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

 Skin finely shagreened above, granulate on the belly and 

 under the thighs; a fold from the eye to the shoulder. 

 Coloration very variable. Greyish, bluish, or purplish above, 

 uniform 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 more or less distinct dark cross-bands ; flanks white, or 

 purple with large white spots; lower parts white. Male 

 without vocal sacs. 



From snout to vent 48 millim. 



Several specimens from Loka, about 3500 feet, and one 

 from the north slope of the Bonthain Peak, 2600 feet. 



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