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the eye. Tympanum distinct, about one-third the size of the eye. 

 The choanse smaller than the eustachian tubes. The back nearly 

 smooth with a few scattered minute tubercles on the sacral region. 

 "Finely tubercular on the sides, on the under surface of the body 

 and femora ; the tubercles anterior to the thorax being less nu- 

 merous than on the belly. A fold from the eye over the tympanum 

 to the shoulder. Limbs of moderate length ; disks well developed. 

 The first finger is shorter than the second and the latter than 

 the third ; the fourth reaches only to the end of the third joint of the 

 third. From the vent to the metatarsal tubercle is the length of the 

 body. Metatarsal tubercle small. Toes less than one-third webbed ; 

 disks not so large as on the fingers. 



Back brownish (spirit specimen), as far forwards as the anterior 

 angle of the eye where the brown abruptly ceases in a straight 

 line, the upper surface of the snout being light olive grey. 

 The brown of the back obscurely spotted with darker. Sides 

 bluish grey, the minute tubercles dark brown. Under surface 

 dirty yellowish, the chin, throat and thorax with scattered brown 

 spots. A dark brown band from the snout to the tympanum. A 

 white line along the canthus rostralis and margin of eyelid and 

 supratympanal fold. Upper lips white. A brown spot in the axilla 

 and a large elongated one in the groin. A dark brown band on 

 the back of the thighs at some distance internal to the vent. 



This description is drawn up from a frog in the Museum labelled 

 I. tinniens, Jerdon, from the Nilgiris.* In Dr. Jerdon's specimen 

 of that species, the body was 1 T X ^ and the hind leg 1 t 3 q- while in 

 the frog that yields this description, the body is -^ and the hind 

 limb 1 T \, which would seem to indicate that the former was a frog 

 of a very different habit of body from the latter. There are no 

 other points in Dr. Jerdon's account of Phyllomedusa ? tinniens^ 

 to assist in identifying the frog he had in view, and from the cir- 

 cumstance that he makes no mention of the tubercular sides and 

 under surface, and does not enumerate any of the striking features 

 of the coloration, of the form just described, I believe it to have been 

 wrongly referred to P. tinniens. He describes an Ixalus glandu- 



* Collected by Mr. Theobald. 



t Journal As. Soc. Beng. vol. XXII, p. 533. 



