1899.] BATBACHIANS, AND FISHES FROM HAINAN. 959 



smooth. Olive above, spotted with black, or blackish with pale 

 olive markings ; limbs with dark cross-bars ; hinder side of thighs 

 with a black reticulation. 



From snout to vent 58 millim. 



Larva with a large pectoral adhesive disk (see P. Z. S. 1893, 

 p. 526). Beak formed of two pieces, an upper and a lower, feebly 

 denticulate, not ribbed ; lower lip not friuged ; the hornj- teeth 

 form 3 uninterrupted and 2 paired series on the upper lip, 2 un- 

 interrupted and 1 narrowly interrupted series on the lower lip, 



3 



2 2 

 an arrangement that may be expressed by the formula j -.. 



2 



Closely allied to Staurois nataior Gthr. Distinguished by the 



shorter head. The tadpole, on the other hand, stands neai-est to 



that of Rana latopalmata Blgr. 



Three specimens : a female, a young, and au advanced tadpole. 



4. Ehacophoeus LExrcoMXSTAX Gravh. 



5. Ehacophoeus oxtcephalus, sp. n. (Plate LXVII. fig. 3.) 



Vomerine teeth in two oblique series between the choanse, the 

 inner front edge of which they nearly touch. Head as long as 

 broad ; snout pointed, as long as or a little longer than the dia- 

 meter of the orbit ; canthus rostralis distinct; loreal region concave; 

 nostril a little nearer the tip of the snout than the eye ; inter- 

 orbital space a little narrower than the upper eyelid ; tympanum 

 distinct, half the diameter of the eye. Eingers with a distinct 

 rudiment of web ; toes entirely webbed ; disks of fingers nearly as 

 large as the tympanum, of toes a little smaller ; a very small inner 

 metatarsal tubercle. The tibio-tarsal articulation reaches beyond 

 the tip of the snout. Skin smooth or with small warts above ; 

 belly granular. Greyish or brown above, spotted or marbled with 

 darker; a dark transverse band or triangular marking, base forwards, 

 between the eyes ; limbs with dark cross-bars ; groin and back of 

 thighs marbled black and yellow ; lower parts white. Male with 

 an internal vocal sac. 



Prom snout to vent 57 millim. 



Four specimens. 



6. BuFO jUelanostictus Schn. 



PISHES. 

 Coreopbeca. 



Coreoperca, Herzenstein, Ann. Mus. Zool. St. Petersb. 1896, 

 p. 11. 



Body compressed ; scales small, cycloid, concentrically striated. 

 Lateral line complete ; tubes straight, occupying the greater length 

 of the scale. Mouth large, protractile ; maxillary exposed, with 



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