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Polypedates marmoratos, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxiv. 

 p. 188 ; Gunther, I. c. p. 428. 



Polypedates afyhana, Gthr. ; Jerdon, Proc. As. Soc. 18/0, p. 84. 



Habit rather stouter than P. maculatus. Snout of moderate 

 length, not depressed, moderately pointed ; canthus rostralis di- 

 stinct ; nostril slightly below the canthus rostralis ; loreal region 

 rather deeply concave and granular. Eye large and prominent. 

 Tympanum very small, smaller than the disk of the third finger. 

 Vomerine teeth on two transverse ridges, on a line with the pos- 

 terior margin of the choanse. Skin above densely covered with 

 small tubercles, with white apices. A large white tubercle on the 

 middle of the head between the anterior angle of the eyes ; a few 

 large glandular-like tubercles above the tympanum on the sides and 

 behind the angle of the mouth. Belly and back of thighs finely 

 tubercular. Fingers free, with the disks very large. Toes com- 

 pletely webbed, with the membrane extending to the disks; me- 

 tatarsus with a small oblong tubercle. From the vent to the heel 

 is considerably longer than the body. 



Colour (in spirit) pale yellowish, with large spots with black cen- 

 tres, paling towards the margins of the spots, so that they become 

 confluent ; a few white spots interspersed among them. Under 

 surface yellowish, spotted with dusky on the chin, throat, and chest. 

 Lips and limbs broadly barred with blackish, the barring on the 

 legs extending on to the fingers and toes. 



Adult (Blyth's type), 3" 3'" in length ; limb 5" /'". Pegu. 



Adult (Darjeeling), 2" 8'" in length ; limb 5" 1'". 



Blyth's specimens were from Pegu ; I also obtained it at an 

 elevation of 3000 feet on the Kakhyen Hills, in the north-east of 

 Burmab, on the confines of China ; and other specimens are from 

 the neighbourhood of Darjeeling, at an height of 3000 feet. 



Polypedates hascheanus, Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 vol. xxxix. p. 147, pi. ix. fig. 3. 



This is a small species, perhaps the smallest known form of the 

 genus, measuring only -j-f", and the hind limb ljV'- The head is 

 rather large compared with the length of the body ; and its breadth 

 is indicated by the circumstance that the distance between the eyes 

 is nearly the length of the moderately long snout. The vomerine 

 prominences are small rounded nodules, their anterior margins being 

 almost on a level with the posterior margin of the choanse, from 

 which, and also from one another, they are widely separated. Dr. 

 Stoliczka describes an indistinct dorsal glandular fold on the fore 

 part of body, which is clearly traceable on the posterior half of it. 

 The existence of such a structure would lead us to refer this Frog to 

 llylorana and not to Polypedates ; but on carefully examining Dr. 

 Stoliczka's specimens in this museum, I fail to detect the slightest 

 indication of a dorsal glandular fold. The fold over the tympanum 

 is well developed, and the disks of the fingers and toes are mode- 

 rately large. 



Proc. Zool. Soc— 18/1, No. XIV. 



