1875. DR. A. GUNTHER ON INDIAN REPTILES, 573 
region flat, slanting. Eye of moderate size; tympanum about one 
third the size of the eye. Limbs of moderate length; disks rather 
small. Fingers without any web: the second rather longer than 
the first, and equal to the fourth, the third being the longest. Toes 
long, with a very short web. Metatarsal tubercle elongate. Skin 
of the back more or less tubercular, or nearly smooth. Choanz 
and Eustachian tubes rather narrow; vomerine teeth in two very 
short series between the choane. A free, pointed papilla in the - 
middle of the tongue. Upper parts brownish olive, mottled with 
brown; a dark interocular cross band; legs barred as usual. 
Lower parts more or less marbled with brown, sometimes brown 
with white dots, sometimes uniform whitish ; anterior and posterior 
sides of the thighs mottled with brown. 
Spec. A. Spec. B. 
millim. millim. 
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Several specimens were collected by Lieut.-Col. Beddome in Mala- 
bar, and one in the Anamallays. 
IxXALUS VARIABILIS (Gthr.). 
This species is not confined to Ceylon, but occurs in various parts 
of Southern India; it is common at Pycara. The variations of 
colour are endless, and frequently render the determination a task 
all the more difficult, as some of them approach closely the distribu- 
tion of colours in other species. There are specimens with sub- 
crescentic brown bands on the back as in Polypedates microtympa- 
num ; others have round, milk-white spots about the lips, or on the 
sides, or all over the back. One variety has the back of a nearly 
uniform chocolate-brown, and a light-coloured band along each side. 
A whitish line along the canthus rostralis and superciliary margin 
is very frequent. 
It is possible that the specimens which Mr. Jerdon noticed as 
Phyllomedusa(?) wynaadensis belonged to this species. But in a 
genus in which the distinction of closely allied species is most diffi- 
cult for the zoologist with the specimens before him, it is impossible 
to say to which of them a short, insufficient note, penned 25 years 
ago, refers. 
IxaLUS GLANDULOsus (Jerd.). 
The specimens we have received from Mr. Theobald of this spe- 
cies were identified by him as the Ivalus (2) glandulosa of Jerdon— 
and, as I think, very properly, the sides of the specimens being 
largely glandular. On the other hand, Col. Beddome has collected 
specimens of the same species, which were determined by Mr. Jer- 
don himself as his Phyllomedusa (?) tinniens. It will be difficult to 
decide from the original notes with which these names are accompa- 
