100 BANIB^. 



upper eyelid; tympanum distinct, half the width of the eye. 

 Fingers free, toes half webbed; disks and subarticular tubercles 

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

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

 nearly the tip of the snout. Above with large warts, conical on the 

 eyelids, sides, back, and limbs, confluent into symmetrical lines on 

 the head ;. a spur-like appendage on the tibio-tarsal articulation ; 

 outer edge of forearm and tarsus with a row of large conical 

 tubercles; granular benoath, the granules larger round the lip. 

 Olive above, indistinctly spotted; flanks, belly, lower surfaces of 

 limbs, and hinder side of thighs white, with large dark-brown 

 marblings. Male with an internal vocal sac. 

 Ceylon. 



G. H. K. Thwaitea, Esq. [P.]. 

 W. H. Holdsworth, Esq. [C.]. 

 W, Ferguson, Esq. [P.J. 



11. Ixalus nasutus. (Plate X. fig. 6.) 

 Ixalus nasutus, Oiinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, p. 484. 



Snout pointed, a little longer than the orbital diameter ; canthus 

 rostraUs distinct ; loreal region slightly concave ; nostril nearer the 

 tip of the snout than the eye ; interorbital space as broad as the 

 upper eyelid ; tympanum distinct, 6ne third the width of the eye. 

 Fingers free, toes not quite half webbed ; disks as large as the tym- 

 panum ; subarticular tubercles moderate ; a small inner metatarsal 

 tubercle. The hind limb being carried forwards along the body, the 

 tibio-tarsal articulation reaches between the eye and the tip of the 

 snout. Above with very small warts or oblique glandular lines ; a 

 very narrow, whitish, glandular raised line along the middle of the 

 head and back ; beneath granular. Grey above, clouded with 

 darker ; loreal and temporal regions blackish ; limbs cross-barred ; 

 spotted with brown beneath. Male with an internal» vocal sac. 



Ceylon. 



a. 6 Ceylon. (Type.) 



6-c. ?. Ceylon. Col. Beddome [C.]. 



c?. ? . C. Ceylon. G. H. K. Thwaites, Esq. [0.]. 



12. Ixalus aurifasciatus. 

 Ixalus aurifasciatus, Oiinth, Cat. p. 74. 



ixaxus auntasciatus, bfunth. Cat. p. 7 

 Hyla aurifasciata, Schleg. Abbild. p. 27, pi. 9. f. 4 

 Orchestes aurifasciatus, Tschudi, Matt: p. 76. 

 Ixalus aurifasciatus, Dum. Sf Bihr. p. 623. 



Snout rounded, about as long as the orbital diameter ; canthus 

 rostralis distinct ; loreal region slightly concave ; nostril a little 

 nearer the tip of the snout than the eye ; interorbital space a Httle 

 broader than the upper eyelid ; tympanum distinct, one third the 



