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are not quite correct, in all probability because their account was drawn 
up from specimens out of the breeding season. I will give a new description. 
Head as long as broad. Tongue cordiform, more or less nicked be- 
hind. Vomerine teeth in two slighthly oblique patches between the choanæ, 
but their hinder edges never extending beyond the hinder edges of the 
choanae, as errenously figured by Peters & Dorta (fig. 2., 6.). Snout high, 
rounded at the tip, longer than the diameter of the eye (7:5) with a me- 
dian eoncavity above; canthus rostralis distinct, nostril projected, immedia- 
tely below the canthus rostralis, twice nearer the tip of the snout than the 
eye; loreal region concave. Tympanum three fifth the diameter of the eye 
in the females, a half in the males. Fingers with a very distinct web at the 
base, namely between the third and fourth finger; no distinct yudiment of 
pollex. The breeding male with a longish patch of small black tubercles on 
the inner side of the first finger. Disks of fingers nearly as large as the 
tympanum in the males, half as large as the tympanum in the females. 
Toes nearly entirely webbed. Tibio-tarsal articulation reaching the tip of 
the snout in the females, extending to between the eye and the nostril in 
the males. Subarticular tubercles of fingers and toes moderate ; inner meta- 
tarsal tubercle oval, weak, longer than the distance between them and the 
subarticular tuberele of the first toe; no outer metatarsal tubercle, but a 
small one between the third and fourth toes. Skin smooth above; granu- 
lated beneath, densely on belly and on the lower side of the thighs, spa- 
ringly on the throat and chest; a row of granules on the outer edge of the 
forearm ; a very distinct fold across the chest. 
Coloration. 
Female. Reddish-brown above irregularly marbled with darker; hin- 
der side of thigs often blackish-brown and always white-punctate ; all round 
the anus a blackish-brown triangular blotch edged with a white line above. 
This dark patch has already been represented by Prrers & Dorta but in 
his figure is the white edge of the patch to highly posited. Dirty yellowish- 
white beneath, powdered with brown on the throat and limbs. 
Male. Lighter brown, greyish or ash-coloured, more indistinetly mar- 
bled with darker; hinder side of thigs never blackish but frequently white- 
punetate; the white edged dark anal bloteh always present. Below as in 
the female, often uniform dirty white. 
Size. From snout to vent 40 mm. (5°) or 46 mm. (9 ). 
Biological note. The collector of this species writes: At the end of 
the dry season they comme out for after the first rains and begin to lay 
their eggs. These are dark brown on one side white on the other side. 
Their voice is a low creak, so feeble that it is only heared as far as ten 
stride. 
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