POLYPEDATID^. 843 



The Yunnan specimens were found at Ponsee in the Kakhyen hills at an elevation 

 of 3,500 feet. 



These last-mentioned examples of the species exactly agree with the type of 

 P. afghana, Glinther, in the British Museum, and with the specimens in Calcutta 

 which yielded the P. marmoratus, Blyth, with the exception that the latter is 

 somewhat granular on the upper surface. 



The type of P. afghana has the skin perfectly smooth ; hut the side, lower front 

 of the helly and around the vent are slightly glandular. The Yunnan specimens 

 entirely agree with it in these respects and in its coloration, which ahove is brown, 

 being finely marbled or spotted with pale yellowish-brown, but so minutely that at 

 a distance the general colour appears to be brown. The under surface is pale 

 yellowish and unspotted. 



In the British Museum there is a specimen from Darjeeling corresponding to 

 P. marmoratus, Blyth, and which, like it, has the upper surface very finely glandu- 

 larly granular, and the sides of the belly more coarsely so. The under surface of this 

 specimen is also immaculate. In another and still larger example conforming in its 

 colouring of its upper parts to the type P. afghana, the head and anterior portion of 

 the back are smooth ; but the hinder part is finely glandularly tubercular, and the 

 sides, belly, and backs of the thighs likewise. This specimen has the chin and throat 

 brown spotted, as in the Yunnan examples. 



POLYPEDATES YUNNANENSIS, n. S., Plate LXXVIII. 



Head flat ; eyes prominent ; snout rather pointed. Canthus rostralis rounded. 

 Loreal region concave. Tympanum more than one-half the diameter of the eye. 

 Nostril below canthus rostralis, slightly nearer the end of the snout than the eye. 

 Vomerine teeth on two oblique ridges convergent, but widely separated. Tongue 

 large, elongately cordate, markedly notched. Krst and second fingers nearly equal 

 in length, the fourth about one-fifth shorter than the third ; the second nearly one- 

 half shorter than the third. Thumb much swollen in the male. Toes long, the 

 fourth equalling one-fourth the length of the body, webbed to the disks, the mem- 

 brane being deeply emarginate on either side of the fourth toe, and less so between 

 the others. Disks of fingers and toes feebly developed. A tubercle at the base of 

 the first toe narrow and elongate, and a fringe along the digit, and another along 

 the distal half of the fifth toe ; no second tubercle. A glandular fold from the eye 

 over the tympanum. A few large wart-like glands behind the angle of the mouth, 

 and an interrupted series over the shoulder and along the sides in the position of the 

 fold in Sylarana, with numerous wart-like glands below it. Small, yellow, pustular- 

 like tubercles on the wart-like glands of the side, and on the sacral region, and 

 still smaller ones on the upper lip, tympanic region, and on the outside of the limbs, 

 but absent in some of the specimens. The belly in the adult male, as far as the line 

 between the shoulders, is minutely granular, and at and beyond this point tho 



