NOTES OF BATRACHIA. 447 
broken in the middle. The teeth under high magnification appear like a tier 
of shoe-horn-shaped structures fringed with spike-like processes. The lower 
labial disk bears, in addition to finger-like tactile processes, rounded smaller 
papillae with a central mass of melanin pigment. Anus tubular, dextral. Tail 
nearly twice the length of body. Caudal membranes weakly developed 
in front, but strongly marked posteriorly. Greatest depth of tail} in the 
length. Terminal part of tail pointed or bluntly rounded, both membranes 
equally deep. A frontal gland is usually present. Glandular swellings in 
front of and rarely below the eyes. Minute rows of muciferous glands over 
the loreal region, continued from behind the eye on the sides of the body where 
occasionally two such rows are met with. 
Dorsal surface of the body rufous black, ventral grey. Tail marbled or 
blotched. 
Measurements of a larva in which the hind limbs are fully grown, 
Total length fe ord a0 toe), DO. 
Length of body .. os .. 23mm. 
Length of tail .. on -. 23mm. 
Depth of body .. ric vou) O:mm, 
Width of body .. a 2009) Ghana, 
Depth of tail .. He 2) 9) 4mm. 
The tadpoles were collected from the hill streams at Hebbe and Muthode, 
(Kadur, Mysore) at an elevation 4,000 ft., by Mr. A. Subba Rao. Specimens 
have been presented to the British and Indian Museums. 
With a view to examine the larval teeth of the tadpole of N. pygmaeus 
(Rec. Ind. Mus., 18, Vol. xv, p. 21, pl. 1, figs. 5, 5a), I requested the Director of 
the Zoological Survey of India to send me kindly a specimen, which, however 
bears teeth exactly like the figure given by Gadow (Camb. Nat. Hist. Amph. 
Rept. p. 58, 1909). I further understand that these tadpoles have been 
discovered to belong to N. major and not N. pygmeus. 
