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and other Batrachia. Similar to these structures is the rough, 

 almost spiny surface on the upper aspect of the first and second 

 fingers, and on the inner margin of the third. The female, as in 

 other Batrachia, has no trace of these structures. There is in some 

 an indistinct trace of an external ear. The canthus rostralis is 

 round, and the nostril is situated rather below it, halfway between 

 the eye and the end of the snout, which is short and round in front. 

 The gape is about the length of the head. The surface of the head 

 is slightly concave, due to a feeble swelling of the rounded canthus 

 rostralis. The whole upper surface and sides of the body is densely 

 covered with small glandular warts, among which many large ones 

 are interspersed, bearing one or two little sharp horny spines, which 

 are generally broken across, giving rise to Theobald's so-called apical 

 pore ; no large warts on the limbs ; smooth below. The female is 

 much less glandular than the male. The legs are rather short, as in 

 Bufo. The first toe is very short ; and the fifth is almost half the 

 length of the fourth, and is very little shorter than the third; a 

 fold of skin along the outside of the fifth toe. The fingers, as in 

 Bufo, more slender in the female than in the male ; the third finger 

 longer than the fourth. The length of the body is equal to the 

 distance between the vent and the base of the fourth toe. 



The mere circumstance that the toes are not webbed does not 

 appear to be a sufficient reason for separating this Frog from the 

 ordinary Toads, which it resembles in all its other characters. 



The specimen, the third that has been found, that has given rise 

 to these remarks was procured on the Sengalula range, Darjeeling, 

 at an altitude of 12,000 feet. 



Hylorana nigrovittata. 



Gymnodytes iiigrovittatus, Blyth, Joum. As. Soc. Bengal, xxiv. 

 pp. 718, 719. 



I Snout short, conical ; canthus rounded ; loreal region longitudi- 

 nally concave ; tympanum about one-fourth less than the long 

 diameter of the eye. Vomerine teeth on two rounded eminences 

 placed obliquely at some distance from the internal angle of the 

 choanse, converging, but widely separated. Tips of fingers and toes 

 but slightly dilated. The first finger is slightly longer than the 

 second, and the distal phalanx shorter than the fourth ; the third 

 has its distal phalanx longer than the fourth. Feet rather small. Toes 

 feebly webbed, with the exception of the fourth ; the fourth toe is 

 one-half the length of the body. Two metatarsal tubercles, the 

 inner one elongate, prominent, and the other rounded and conical. 

 From the vent to the heel is very little less than the length of the 

 body. Skin smooth, very finely tubercular on the sacral region 

 and the upper surface of the legs and the back of the thighs around 

 and external to the vent ; a glandular fold from the eye, along the 

 side of the back ; an interrupted glandular fold from the angle of 

 the mouth over the shoulder, but disappearing behind it ; sometimes 

 a few tubercles tending to a linear arrangement in front of the groin 

 immediately below the dorsal line. 



