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Observations on Indian Batrachia, — ly De. F. Stoliczka. 



[Read, and received 1st May, 1872.] 



The following notes* refer to various imperfectly known Batrachia, 

 of many of which I had opportunity to observe live specimens and to note 

 their coloration. Several species are recorded which had not been pre- 

 viously known from the Indian and Indo-Malayan regions, and of others 

 I have traced the geographical distribution, as known up to the present 

 time. The relations or identity of a few genera and species will also be found 

 discussed in the following pages. 



1. OxTGLOSsrs LIMA, Tschudi. 



This was obtained by Mr. Kurz at Tonghoo, in Pegu, and I also got 

 it in Lower Bengal. Both, it and 0. Icevis occur at Moulmein, Tenaserim, 

 (see Proc. A. S. B., 1870, p. 273). 



O. Icems^ together with a new speciesf from Bangkok, is placed 

 by Prof. Peters;]: in a new genus, PJirynoglossus, merely differing from 

 Oxyglossus lima by having the tongue rounded (not pointed) behind, and 

 nearly entirely grown on, though quite free at the posterior edge. I do not 

 think that many, who have specimens of 0. lima and Icevis before them, will 

 appreciate this generic difference. The two frogs perfectly agree in general 

 form and character, absence of vomerine teeth, free fingers, entirely webbed 

 toes, two unequal metatarsal tubercles, a short fold on the inner side, and a 

 more or less distinct tubercle at the lower base, of the tarsus, &c. ; the habits 

 are also exactly the same, the frogs occurring together in pools of water 

 along streams. The only structural difference of O. Icevis is, that the nostrils 

 aremore apart and the fingers shorter and more stumpy. In both species 

 I observe a slight fold from behijjd the eye to the shoulder passing above 

 the hidden tympanic region, and a second short fold from below the qjq 

 to the mouth ; but both these folds are very indistinct in fresh specimens, 

 they only become better discernable when the skin is a little dried, or has 

 shrunk in spirits. 



2. Pyxicephaltjs breviceps, (Schneid.) 



A specimen from Jabalpur (Cent. Provinces) is above uniform yel- 

 lowish, or rather pale pinkish, brown, without a vertebral line ; a stripe 



* These notes were written about ten months ago, but I had delayed their submis- 

 sion to the Society, because I expected to add to them the descriptions of several 

 new species discovered by Major Beddome in South India, and also because I 

 contemplated to give illustrations of several imperfectly known species. Both these 

 objects are at present impracticable. 



t Fh. Maftensii. % Monatsb. Akad., 1867, p. 29. 



