1872.] F. Stoliczka — On Indian Batrachia. 107 



grass and not on trees.' It is a very common species in Bengal, 



extending through the Central Provinces into the Malabar country and 

 apparently also to Ceylon.* I have seen specimens from as far west as 

 the Ganges at Hardwar, from Sikkim, Barma and Penang. Around 

 Calcutta it is common among high grass near tanks and rivers, but it is 

 certainly quite as common on the leaves of different palms and of Musa, 

 particularly at the roots of the leaves where water accumulates. 



Young and half grown specimens are above either uniform pale whitish 

 green, or with numerous darker spots which on the posterior part of the 

 body sometimes become longitudinally confluent ; limbs with cross bands. 



Adults are during life dull yellowish white withf dull green spots and 

 bands, darkest at the sides of the head. This is the general colour, 

 while the animal is at rest, but the moment it begins to move 

 about, the white of the body changes to more or less dusky brown, 

 the spots become dark green and the sides of the head almost black. 

 Occasionally some of the green spots are tinged with rufous brown, but 

 that is rarer. The pale colours change to pure or dusky white, or brownish, 

 and the green spots to black or dark brown in spirit. The hourglass- 

 shaped mark is rarely distinct in Bengal specimens, and I have not seen 

 a single one in which the skin was grown to the occiput, but adults generally 

 have a slightly interrupted osseous crest indicated. The posterior sides 

 of the belly, and the front and hinder sides of the femora are always marked 

 with roundish yellow spots, intermixed with a dark violet reticulation. 

 Lip white in young, golden iridescent in adults. The outer edge of the 

 tarsus and of the fifth toe has always a very conspicuous light golden band, 

 margined below with blackish green, and both bands are also indicated on 

 the outer edge of the tibia. Lower side of the body uniform white in young ; 

 throat in adults tinged with pale golden and mottled with dusky violet, and 

 the lower belly tinged with dusky brown. Pupil black, horizontally eliptical ; 

 ii'is greenish golden. 



On the fore limb there is a basal web present between the 1st and 2d 

 and 2d and 3rd fingers, between the 3rd and 4th it is almost obsolete. On 

 the toes the web generally reaches to the tip of the 5th toe, but not usually 

 to that of the 3rd toe (not ' fingers' as noticed by Giinther), however in 

 fresh specimens there is a free cutaneous edge noticeable up to the tips of all 

 toes. 



Prof Peters (Monat. Berl. Akad, 1871, p. 649) says that a new species 

 from Ceylon, P. hiscutiger, differs from P. maculatus by the development of 

 certain flattened prominences on the occiput, by a smaller tympanum, it being 



* I have not seen South Indian or Ceylon specimens. 

 t A Penang variety has no dark spots. 



