3. KHAOOPHOBITS. 87 



tralis distinct ; loreal region slightly concave ; nostril equally 

 distant from the eye and the tip of the snout ; interorbital space 

 scarcely broader than the upper eyelid ; tympanum half the width 

 of the eye. Fingers nearly half webbed; toes nearly entirely 

 webbed ; disks of fingers and toes well developed, about two thirds 

 the size of the tympanum ; subarticular tubercles moderate ; a rather 

 large, but little prominent inner metatarsal tubercle. The bind 

 limb being carried forwards along the body, the tibio-tarsal articu- 

 lation reaches hardly the eye. Skin smooth above, granular beneath ; 

 a fold above the tympanum. Bluish green above, immaculate. 

 Male with an internsil vocal sac. 

 Japan. 



a-h, c. i£, $,&hgr. Japan. Leydeu Museum. 



(Types.) 



24. Rhacophorus microglossus. (Plate IX. fig. 2.) 



Tongue extremely small. Vomerine teeth in two slightly oblique 

 series commencing from the inner front edge of the choanae. Snout 

 rounded; canthus rostralis distinct ; loreal region slightly concave ; 

 nostril equally distant fi'om the eye and the tip of the snout ; inter- 

 orbital space broader than the upper eyelid ; tympanum half the 

 width of the eye. Fingers half webbed, toes three- fourths webbed ; 

 disks of fingers and toes moderate, not quite two thirds the diameter 

 of the tympanum ; subarticular tubercles not very prominent ; a 

 small inner metatarsal tubercle. The hind limb being carried for- 

 wards along the body, the tibio-tarsal articulation marks the front 

 of the eye. Skin smooth above, granular beneath ; a fold above the 

 tymjianum. Violet above, immaculate; thighs not coloured, except 

 a narrow violet streak along their upper side ; sides of body and of 

 lim^s with small blackish specks ; a white line along the outer edge 

 of forearm and tarsus. Male with an internal vocal sac. 



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a. S ■ ? Sir Edward Belcher [P.]. 



25. Ehacophorus dennysii. 



Ehacophcrus dennysi; Blanford, Proc. Zool Soc. 1881, p. 224, pi. 21. 

 f. 3. 



Vomerine teeth in two straight ridges, nearly in the same right 

 line, commencing from the inner front edge of the choanEC. Snout 

 rounded ; tympanum very little smaller than the eye. Fingers and 

 toes with very large disks, the former incompletely, the latter en- 

 tirely webbed, reaching the disks. Folds along the edges of the 

 limbs inconspicuous. Dark violet above, below dirty white mottled 

 with dusky ; a brown spot behind the occiput ; no spots on the 

 membrane between the fingers and toes. 



China? 



