neio Frog from 8ind. 121 



mens. Vomerine teeth in two small groups between the inner 

 nostrils. Lower jaw with two not very prominent apophyses. 

 Back and upper surface of hind limbs finely tubercular. Sides 

 rugose, with spiniferous warts. On the under surface there 

 are two nearly circular patches of minute dark spmescent tuber- 

 cles on the sternum, and the abdomen is covered with large 

 horny-tipped tubercles, while under the throat and^ in some 

 specimens^ on the chin also there are patches of minute spinous 

 granulations. Fore limb short and stout ; fingers of mode- 

 rate length, the tips dilated into small disks ; subarticular 

 tubercles well developed. Palmar surface of both fore and 

 hind feet with minute, scattered, conical, dark spinous tuber- 

 cles. Laid side by side the second and fourth fingers are equal, 

 the first smallest and the third longest. First finger loith a 

 nodose prominence covered with minute tubercles on the dorsal 

 surface ; second finger the same, with the nodose prominence less 

 developed^ while below^ on the side of the first finger^ is also a 

 thumb- like prominence covered with tubercles. Hind limbs 

 moderate. The distance between vent and knee equals half 

 the length of the head and body. Laid forward, the knee 

 reaches the axil of the fore limb and the metatarsal tubercles 

 the tip of the snout. The toes are webbed to the base of the 

 disks or swollen tips, and bear subarticular tubercles ; meta- 

 tarsus with a single elongate spur-like tubercle. A cutaneous 

 fringe along the margin of the first and fifth toes. 



Colours. From olive-brown to dark brown on the dorsal 

 surface ; y ellowish brown on the ventral surface, with or 

 \\itbout, or with a very few dark brown specklings. Chin and 

 throat yellowish white, more or less marbled with brown. 

 Inner side of thighs brownish, with flocculent yellowish 

 marbling. 



Locality. Mulleer near Kurrachee ; Zandra and Quetta, in 

 South Afghanistan. 



In general characters this species is not unlike R. cyano- 

 phlyctis, but is readily recognized by its broad head, sternal 

 tubercular patches, and tubercular thumb-like nodosity below 

 the first finger, as also by the tubercular dorsal surface of the 

 first and second fingers. 



XV. — Description of two new Curculionidas (Ectemnorhinusj 

 from Marion Islands. By Chakles O. Waterhouse. 



The specimens which are the subject of this note were col- 

 lected during the ' Challenger ' expedition (on Dec. 26, 1873), 



