80 BANID^. 



(with bifurcate terminal phalanges) and more, distinctly webbed. 

 Greenish or grejdsh above, with or without dark insuliform spots ; 

 limbs cross-barred ; flanks and hinder side of thighs brown, the 

 former marbled, the latter speckled with white. 

 India. 



a. 5 . Madras. Zool. Soc. "I m 



b-c. $ & hgi'. Madras. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [P.].] ""yP^^- 



d. 2 . Ootocamund. F. Day E,sq. [P.]. 



e..Manyspeo.: Malabar. Col. Beddome [P.]. 

 5,hgi'.,&yg. 



f-g. Hgr. Anamallays. Col. Beddome [P.]. 



h-m. $ , hgr., Nilgherries. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. 



11. Bhacopliorns reticiQatus. 



Polypedates reticulatus, Oiinth. Mept. Brit. Ind. p. 431, pi. 26. f, F, 

 and Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. xvii. 1876, p. 376, pi. 20. f. C. 



Vomerine teeth in two oblique groups between the choanse. 

 A conical papilla on the middle of the tongue. Snout rounded ; 

 canthus rostralis distinct; loreal region slightly concave; nostril 

 much nearer the tip of the snout than the eye ; interorbital space 

 broader than the upper eyelid ; tympanum half the width of the 

 eye. Fingers very slightly, toes nearly entirely webbed ; disks of 

 fingers and toes as large as the tympanum ; subarticular tubercles 

 moderate ; a small inner metatarsal tubercle. The hind limb being 

 carried forwards along the body, the tibio-tarsal articulation reaches 

 the tip of the snout, or slightly beyond. Skin smooth above, granu- 

 lar beneath ; a narrow fold above the tympanum. Brown above, 

 with small darker spots ; a more or less distinct dark cross band be- 

 tween the eyes ; flanks and hinder side of thighs with a network of 

 dark-brown lines ; legs indistinctly cross-barred ; throat brown- 

 spotted. 



Ceylon. 



a. 5. Ceylon. (jTPe.) 



h-c. g & eggs. Ceylon. W. Ferguson, Esq. [P.]. 



d-e,f, Hgr. Ceylon. 



g. 2- 0. Ceylon. G. H. K. Thwaites, Esq. [P.]. 



^^/12. Ehacophorus jerdonii. (Piate VIII. fig. 1.) 

 Polypedates jerdonii, Oiinth. Pt-oe. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 671. 



Vomerine teeth in two small groups between the choanse. Snout 

 rounded ; canthus rostralis rounded ; loreal region very slightly con- 

 cave ; nostril equally distant from the tip of the snout and the eye ; 

 interorbital spade broader than the upper eyelid ; tympanum one 

 third the width of the eye. Fingers distinctly webbed ; toes two- 



