572 DR. A. GUNTHER ON INDIAN REPTILES. [Nov. 16, 
middle of the tongue*. Upper parts light brownish olive, or pinkish, 
with some very obscure spots; a dark cross band between the eyes ; 
a black band along the canthus rostralis, widening behind the eye, 
so as to cover the whole tympanum ; legs obscurely barred ; anterior 
and posterior sides of the thighs finely mottled with black. 
Spec. A. Spec. B. 
millim. millim. 
Lenethor DOWy se ans’ = ss sane 55 45 
Fe hind limbe 2222... 115 85 
a3 farsne, Fok. sel. <8 seis 6 11 13 
= fourth toe............ 30 24 
Lieut.-Col. Beddome has collected specimens of this frog in 
Malabar and Travancore, in the Anamallays, and at Sevagherry. 
PoLYPEDATES BRACHYTARSUS, Sp. N. 
Closely allied to P. beddomii, but with a much shorter tarsus. 
Snout flat, somewhat pointed, with indistinct canthus rostralis ; 
loreal region flat, slanting. Eye rather large; tympanum not quite 
half as large as the eye. Limbs of moderate length. Fingers with- 
out any web, and with moderately developed disks: the first, second, 
and fourth nearly equal in length, the third being the longest. 
Toes two thirds webbed, the cutaneous fold reaching to the disks, 
except in the fourth toe, in which it extends to the antepenultimate 
joint only. Metatarsus with a small indistinct tubercle. Skin of 
the back with short longitudinal folds; a glandular curved fold 
from behind the orbit, above the tympanum, to the armpit. 
Choane and Eustachian tubes of moderate size ; vomerine teeth in 
two short oblique series. A free, pointed papilla in the middle of 
the tongue. Upper parts brown, mottled with darker; a broad, 
whitish, well-defined longitudinal band along the middle of the back 
to the end of the snout; an interocular brown band slightly en- 
croaches upon the white band. Upper sides of the legs barred as 
usual; anterior and posterior sides of the thighs finely mottled with 
brown. 
Spec. A, Spec. B. 
millim. millim. 
Lenethtofibndy siasists< sucticn + wank 55 38 
ee hindlimb . acc te sey 5 99 58 
is CATSUS Es sca cis) s enteTonen® 30s 15 10 
Sy lapel OUBULELOG site on crer cies 26 17 
Two specimens from Lieut.-Col. Beddome’s collection—one from 
the Anamallays, the other from Sevagherry. 
POLYPEDATES BREVIPALMATUS, Sp. 0. 
Habit similar to that of P. maculatus. 
Snout short, flat, obtuse, with indistinct canthus rostralis; loreal 
* T do not find that the presence of this papilla has been noticed before, 
although it is present in some cf the other species of Polypedates and Lvralus ; 
it is absent in P, maculatus. I do not know its function. 
