11. CAILULA. 167 



Diplopelma berdmorei, GiXnth. Zool. Sec. iy. p. 146 ; Anders. Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 202 ; Stoliczka, Proc. As. Soc. 1872, p. 109. 



Habit slender. Snout obtuse, as long as, or a little longer 

 than, the orbital diameter; interorbital space broader than the 

 upper eyelid. Pingers slender, with slightly swollen tips; first 

 finger much shorter than second ; toes long, webbed to the tips, 

 which are dilated into rather large disks ; s;ibarticular tubercles very 

 distinct ; two very small metatarsal tuberclj.s. Hind limb very long ; 

 it being stretched forwards along the bod/r, the tibio-tarsal articu- 

 lation reaches beyond the tip of the snout. Skin smooth, or with a 

 few scattered indistinct tubercles on the back and sides. Brownish, 

 olive or pinkish above ; ' a darker, light-edged, hourglass-shaped, 

 large spot on the front part of the back, beginning between the eyes, 

 sometimes continued on the hind part of the back ; black spots on 

 the sides of the limbs and occasionally on the flanks ; a chevron- 

 shaped black marking on the anal region ; throat and chest clouded 

 with brown ; the remainder of the lower surfaces immaculate. 



Birmah. 



a-c. 5 . Pegu. W. Theobald, Esq. [0.]. 



d-e. $.. Birinah. W. Theobald, Esq. [C.]. 



11. CALLTJLA. 



Kaloula, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 38 ; Qunih. Cat. p. 122. 

 Hylsedactylus, Tschudi, Batr. p. 85 ; Dum. Sf Bibr. viii. p. 732. 

 Plectropus, Dum. 8r Bibr. p. 736. 

 Holonectes, Peters, Man. JBerl. Ac. 1863, p. 455. 

 Calohyla, Peters, I. c. 



Callula, Criinth. Pep. Brit. Ind. p. 436 ; CopC) Journ. Ac. Philad. (2) 

 vi. 1867, p. 192. 



Pupil erect. Tongue oblong, entire and free behind. Vomerine 

 teeth none. Palatine bone forming an acute, sometimes toothed 

 ridge across the palate. Two cutaneous, more or less distinctly 

 denticulated ridges across the palate, in front of the oesophagus. 

 Tympanum hidden. Pingers free ; toes more or less webbed (ex^ 

 ceptionaUy free), the tips more or less dilated. Outer metatarsals 

 united. No precoracoids ; no omosternum ; sternum cartilaginous. 

 Diapophyses of sacral vertebra moderately dilated. Terminal pha- 

 langes triangular or ^-shaped. 



East Indies. 



Synopsis of the Species. 



I. Toes at least one-third webbed. 



Tips of fingers slightly swollen 1. picta, p. 168. 



Tips of fingers dilated into large disks ; 



metatarsal tubercles moderately large . . 2. conjuncta, p. 168. 

 Tips of fingers dilated into well-developed 



disks ; outer metatarsal tubercle minute. 3. olscura, p. 169. 



