568 DR. A. GUNTHER ON INDIAN REPTILES. [ Noy. 16, 
Brownish, marbled with darker, sometimes with a broad yellow 
vertebral band. Limbs with cross bars; hinder part of the thighs 
black, with white vermiculated lines and spots. Lower parts whitish, 
throat sometimes marbled with brown. 
Several specimens were collected by Lieut.-Col. Beddome in 
Malabar. The body of the largest is 60 millims. long ; length of 
hind limb 103 millims. 
RaNA PYGMAA, Sp. 0. 
Similar in habit to a young Rana kuhlii. Head much depressed, 
with very short, rounded snout; canthus rostralis absent; eyes 
prominent, obliquely directed forwards. Skin smooth, with a few 
irregular folds behind the head. T'ympanum hidden ; inner nares 
and Eustachian tubes small. Vomerine teeth in two short groups 
close together, behind the inner nostrils. Limbs short ; fingers and 
toes short, the latter half-webbed. One metatarsal tubercle. 
Upper parts nearly uniformly black or blackish brown, the lower 
dull yellow.. 
A minute species, the body of an adult female with mature ova in 
the oviduct being only 25 millims. long; length of hind limb 31 
millims. 
Several specimens were collected by Lieut.-Col. Beddome in 
Malabar. 
RANA HEXADACTYLA (Less.). 
The specimens named Rana vittata by Lieut.-Col. Beddome are 
the young of this species. Three other young specimens were pre- 
sented to the Museum by Mr. Jerdon under the name of “ Py«i- 
cephalus pluvialis, Jerd.” 
XENOPHRYS MONTICOLA (Gthr.). 
« Xenophrys gigas, Jerd.,” is the adult of this species. 
DIrPLoPeLMA. 
In Mr. Jerdon’s collection there are specimens which he has iden- 
tified with the two species formerly named by him “ Engystoma 
rubrum”? and “ Engystoma carnaticum.” Those to which he has 
applied the former name are, in my opinion, the same as D. orna- 
tum (D. and B., Gthr.). The others, four in number, are from 
Assam; and two of them I am inclined to refer likewise to D. orna- 
tum, whilst the other two are identical with D. pulchrum (Hallow.). 
NANNOPHRYS CEYLONENSIS (Gthr.). 
Trachycephalus ceylanicus, Ferguson, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 
1875, vol. xv., is identical with this species. 
ANSONIA ORNATA, sp. n. (Plate LXIII. fig. A.) 
Anterior half of the back finely tubercular, the remainder smooth. 
Tympanum very distinct, about half the size of the eye. Fingers 
free, the first much shorter than the second. Toes short, broadly 
