104 EANTD^. 



free, toes one-fourth webbed ; tips of fingers and toes very feebly 

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

 tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the eye. Skin smooth, or slightly 

 tubercular above ; a fold from the eye over the tympanum to the 

 shoulder; under surface smooth. Uniform brown above; three 

 blackish spots, with a white spot in the centre of some, in Unear 

 series along the side; an oblong black spot on the side of the 

 sacrum above the loin ; a narrow white line on the middle of the 

 side, between th« front and hind limbs ; a black band along the 

 supra-tympanal fold ; back of thighs black, with a white spot at the 

 end of the band ; limbs cross-barred. 

 Birmah. 



19. Ixalus puuctatus. 

 Ixalus punctatus, Anders. Jmim. As. Soc. 1871, p. 27. 



Snout rounded, its length a little more than the width between 

 the eyes ; canthus rostralis distinct ; nostril nearer the tip of the 

 snout than the eye ; tympanum distinct, about one third the size of 

 the eye. Fingers free, toes less than one-third webbed ; disks of 

 fingers well developed, of toes smaller; a small inner metatarsal 

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

 the tibio-tarsal articulation reaches beyond the eye. Back nearly 

 smooth, with a few scattered minute tubercles on the sacral region ; 

 finely tubercular on the sides and on the under surface of the body 

 and thighs ; a fold from the eye to the shoulder. Brownish above, 

 as far forwards as the anterior angle of the eye, where'the brown 

 abruptly ceases in a straight line, the upper surface of the snout 

 being light olive ; upper lip white ; a dark-brown band from the 

 snout to the tympanum ; sides bluish grey, the minute tubercles 

 dark brown ; under surfaces dirty yellowish, the chin, throat, and 

 thorax with scattered brown spots. 



Nilgherries. 



20. Ixalus tnberculatns. 



Ixalus tuherculatus, Anders. Anat. Zool. Res. Yunnan, p. 845, pi. 78. 

 f.7. 



Snout short, rounded ; canthus rostralis feebly developed ; nostril 

 much nearer the tip of the snout than the eye ; tympanum distinct, 

 about one fourth the size of the eye. Fingers free, toes slightly 

 webbed; disks of fingers large, of toes smaller. The hind limb 

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

 reaches the tip of the snout. Small scattered isolated tubercles on 

 the upper surface and on the sides of the body ; finely granular on 

 the belly and under the thighs. Uniform dark olive above ; all the 

 small tubercles, as a rule, white ; in some specimens a transverse 

 pale band between the eyes and two similar bands behind them ; a 



