48G DR. A. GUNTIIEU ON NEW BATRACHIANS. [June 25, 



largest is only 35 millims. long, the length of the hind limb being 60 

 millims. 



PoLYPEDATES NASUTUs. (Plate XXXIX. fig. 2.) 



This species will be readily recognized by its extremely prolonged 

 and pointed snout, which is as long as the width between the anterior 

 angles of the orbit ; in other respects it is similar to Polypedates 

 eques. The nose projects far beyond the mouth ; canthus rostralis 

 angular, loreal region grooved, eye large, tympanum more than half 

 as large as the eye. A narrow glandular fold runs from the back 

 edge of the eye, above the tympanum, to the shoulder; upper 

 parts and throat quite smooth ; abdomen finely granular ; lower side 

 of the thigh with large white tubercles, those in a series below the 

 anui being largest. Fingers not webbed; disks of fingers broad, 

 of toes moderate ; second finger much shorter than fourth, which 

 is nearly as long as the third. The membrane between the toes 

 reaches to half the length of the fourth, and does not extend to the 

 disks of the four others. The third and fifth toes are nearly equal 

 in length ; at the base of the first is a small tubercle. Heel with a 

 skinny spur-like appendage. Above greenish olive, with darker 

 bands across the limbs ; sides of the head and body blackish, with a 

 yellow band commencing on the tip of the nose, narrower before the 

 eye and broader behind it ; lower parts nearly uniform yellow, with 

 a black edge round the lower jaw. Vent black. 



We have received a single female specimen from Southern Ceylon ; 

 it is 60 millims. long, the length of hind limb being 95 millims. 



Polypedates cavirostris. (Plate XXXIX. fig. 1.) 



Similar in habit to Polypedates reticulatus. Head large and 

 broad, snout short, canthus rostralis angular and arched, loreal 

 region deeply concave. Eye of moderate size ; tympauum distinct, 

 ovate, one-third the width of the eye. Limbs of' moderate length, 

 the length of the body being equal to the distance between vent 

 and heel. Fingers scarcely webbed, disks moderately developed ; 

 toes broadly webbed, the interdigital membrane extending to the 

 disks of the third and fifth toes, A small moveable tubercle at the 

 base of the first toe. Heel without spur, but the hind margin of 

 the tarsus is fringed ; a patch of pointed tubercles below the vent. 

 Upper parts with very minute tubercles or granules symmetrically 

 arranged ; vomerine teeth on a very short prominence, situated at 

 the inner anterior angles of the choanse. Upper parts reddish olive, 

 finely marbled with black on the sides and caudal region. Lower parts 

 whitish, throat speckled with brown. Limbs with a few indistinct 

 dark cross bands ; the hinder side of the thighs is not coloured. 



We have received one example from Southern Ceylon ; it is 45 

 millims. long, the length of the hind limb being 77 millims. 



Polypedates rufescens. 



Fingers broadly webbed, the web between the two outer fingers 



