3. EHACOPHORrS. 



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snout. Upper parts with small tubercles ; a fold above the tympauum ; 

 outer ed ,"0 of forearm and of tarsus with a denticulate fringe ; a 

 patch of pointed tubercles below the vent ; belly and underside of 

 thighs granular. Eeddish brown above, marbled with dark brown 

 and speckled with black ; limbs cross-barred ; hinder side of thighs 

 not coloured ; throat speckled with brown. Male with an internal 

 vocal sac. 

 Cevlon. 



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S. Ceylon. 



Ceylon. 



Ceylon. 



(Type of Polypedates cavirostris.) 

 Q. H. K. Thwaites, Esq. [P.J. 

 G. H. K. Thwaites, Esq. [P.]. 

 (Type of Ixalus Jimbriatus.) 



17. Rhacophorus davidi. 



Polypedates daAddi, Sauvarje, Bull. Soc. PJiilom. (7) i. 1877, p. 117. 



Vomerine teeth in two short, slightly oblique series between the 

 choanae. Snout rounded ; canthus rostralis moderate ; nostril 

 equally distant from the eye and the tip of the snout ; tympanum 

 rather more than half the width of the eye, Pingers slighth', toes 

 more than half webbed ; disks rather large. Tlie hind limb being 

 carried forwards along the body, the tibio-tarsal articulation reaches 

 in front of the eye. Skin smooth above, granular on the belly. 

 Above slate-coloured, with large yellow spots ; sides of body, inferior 

 surface of limbs, throat and breast yellowish, with undulous slate- 

 coloured line ; belly with black punctulations. 



Moupin, China. 



18. Ehacophorus maculatus. 



Polypedates maculatus, Giinth. Cat. p. 78. 

 Hyla maculata, Gray, Incl. Zool. 



leucomystax, Gravenh. Dellc. p. 26. 



Polypedates leucomystax, Tschudi, Batr. p. 75 ; Dum. df Bibr. p. 519; 



Kelaart, Prodr. Faun. Zeyl. p. 193. 

 Biirgeria maculata, Tschudi, I. c. 

 Polypedates rugosus, Dum. 8f Bibr. p. 520. 



cruciger, Blyth, in Kelaart, Prodr. App. p. 48. 



megacepbalus, Ilalloiv. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 48. 



maculatus, Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 428 ; Blanford, Journ. As. 



Soc. 1870, p. 376 ; Anders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 307 ; Stoliczka, 



Proc. As. Soc. 1872, p. 106. 

 biscutiger, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1871, p. 649. 



Vomerine teeth in two more or less oblique series commencing 

 on the inner front edge of the choante. Head generally bony and 

 rugose above in adult specimens ; snout subtriangular ; canthus 

 rostralis distinct ; loreal region concave ; nostril much nearer the tip 

 of the snout than the eye ; interorbital space much broader than the 



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