182 DYSCOPHID.^:. 



the metatarsal tubercle reaches the eye. Skin perfectly smooth ; a 

 rather indistinct fold across the head, behiiid the eyes ; another fold 

 from the eye to the shonlder. Upper parts pink or yellowish olive, 

 coarsely marbled with In'own, the brown marks edged by a black 

 line ; a long transverse black mark across the vent and hinder 

 surface of thighs ; beneath immaculate ; the male's throat blackish. 

 Latter with a snbgular vocal sac. 

 Pegu; Birmah. 



a-d. S $ . Pegu. W. Theobald, Esq. [C.]. 



e. $ . Ifcmah. W. Theobald, Esq. [C.]. 



f. Hgr. V E. 0. Beavaii, Esq. [P.]. 



3. COPHYLA. 



Cophyla, Boettger, Zool Anz. 1880, p. 281. 



Pupil erect. Tongue oval, entire and free behind. A long series 

 of palatine teeth behind the choante. Tympanum more or less indis- 

 tinct. Fingers free, toes free or webbed at the base, the tips dilated 

 into regular disks. Outer metatarsals united. Coracoids strong ; 

 precoracoids and omostcrnum absent ; sternum cartilaginous, very 

 small. Diapophyses of sacral vertebra slightly dilated. Terminal 

 phalanges T-shaped. 



Madagascar. 



1. Cophyla notosticta. 



Callula notosticta, Giintli. Ami. ^- Maq. N. H. (4) xix. p. .316, 

 pi. in. f. C. 



Snout short, rather pointed, with distinct canthus rostralis ; inter- 

 orbital space broader than the upper eyelid. Fingers moderate, first 

 much shorter than second, the tips dilated into large disks ; toes 

 moderate, free, the disks smaller than those of the fingers ; subar- 

 ticular tubercles rather indistinct; metatarsal tubercle indistinct. 

 The hind limb being carried forwards along the body, the tarso- 

 metatarsal articulation reaches between the eye and the tip of 

 the snout. Skin everywhere smooth ; a narrow glandular fold from 

 the eye along the side of the body. Upper parts pinkish brown, 

 with symmetrical dark-brown markings ; a pair of whitish, l)lack- 

 edged dots on the sacral region ; sometimes a few other pairs of 

 similar spots on the head and back ; sides of head blackish ; canthus 

 rostralis, edge of upper eyelid, and glandular lateral fold pink ; 

 beneath light brown, indistinctly speckled with darker. Male with 

 a subgular vocal sac. 



Madagascar. 



a. S- Mahanoro. | .p 



h-c. 5 & hgr. Anzahamara. I •''■ ' 



