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Pxyicephalus Khasianus, n. sp. 



Body short and thick, logs of moderate length. Head short and 

 broad. Snout short and rounded ; no canthus rostralis ; nostrils 

 directed upwards and backwards, almost on tho upper surface and 

 half way between the eye and the snout. Eyes rather large and 

 prominent. Occiput much swollen. Tympanum inverted by the 

 skin, but faintly visible, small, one half the diameter of the eye. 

 Skin in the groin full, smooth throughout, no trace of tubercles, 

 lingers quite free ; three small tubercles on the palmar aspect, the 

 inner one the largest, elongated and similating the shovel-like tu- 

 bercle of the metatarsus. The first and second fingers of nearly 

 equal length, about a half shorter than the third ; the fourth about 

 one third shorter than the third. Thighs rather short, lower leg 

 little shorter than the thigh. Tarsus and foot the length of the 

 thigh and one half of the tibial portion. The body very little 

 longer than the distance between the vent and the heel. The 

 shovel- shaped prominence laterally compressed, but not prominent. 

 Two apophyses on the lower jaw. The choanal are round, more 

 distinctly defined, but rather smaller, than the eustachien tubes ; 

 vomerine prominences placed transversely behind the choanal and 

 separated from each other by a narrow interval. Tongue rather 

 small, cordate and notched behind. 



Uniform brown above, faintly barred on the thigh ; spotted with 

 brown on the sides, chin, thorax and under-surface of the limbs. 



Sab. Khasi Hills. 



The position and direction of the vomerine prominences and the 

 small size of the metatarsal tubercle almost serve to separate this 

 form as the type of a new genus. 



POLYPEDATID^E. 



Hylorana granulosa, n. sp. 



Of moderately slender habit. Canthus rostralis distinct, rounded. 

 Snout of moderate length, pointed. The interval between the eyes 

 is equal the distance from the anterior angle of the eye to the nostril. 

 Nostril below canthus rostralis near the end of the snout. Loreal 

 region longitudinally concave. Tympanum nearly as large as the 

 .eye. Vomerine teeth in two, somewhat oblique, ridges near the 



