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the metatarsal tubercle reaches the eye. Skin perfectly smooth ; a 

 rather indistinct fold across the head, behind the eyes ; another fold 

 from the eye to the shoulder. Upper parts pink or yellowish olive, 

 coarsely marbled with brown, the brown marks edged by a black 

 line; a long transverse black mark across the vent and hinder 

 surface of thighs ; beneath immaculate ; the male's throat blackish. 

 Latter with a subgular vocal sac. 

 Pegu; Birmah. 



a-d. 3 $ . Pegu. W. Theobald, Esq. [G,]. 



e. 2 . Birmah. W. Theobald, Esq. [C.t 



/. Hgr. :■ R. 0. Beavan, Esq. [PJ. 



3. COPHYLA. 



Cophyla, BoeUger, Zool. Am. 1880, p. 281. 



Pupil erect. Tongue oval, entire and free behind. A long series 

 of palatine teeth behind the choanse. Tympanum more or less indis- 

 tinct. Fingers free, toes free or webbed at the base, the tips dilated 

 into regular disks. Outer metatarsals united. Coracoids strong ; 

 precoracoids and omosternum absent; sternum cartilaginous,. very 

 small. Diapophyses of sacral vertebra slightly dilated. Terminal 

 phalanges T-shaped. 



Madagascar. 



1. Cophyla notosticta. 



CaUula notosticta, Oiinth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (4) xix. p. 316, 

 pi. 16. f. 0. 



Snout short, rather pointed, with distinct canthus rostralis ; inter- 

 orbital space broader than the upper eyelid. Kngers moderate, first 

 much shorter than second, the tips dilated into large disks ; toes 

 moderate, free, the disks smaller than those of the Angers ; subar- 

 ticular tubercles rather indistinct; metatarsal tubercle indistinct. 

 The hind limb being carried forwards along the body, the tarso- 

 metatarsal articulation reaches between the eye and the tip of 

 the snout. Skin everywhere smooth ; a narrow glandular fold from 

 the cyo along the side of the body. Upper parts pinkish brown, 

 with symmetrical dark-brown markings ; a pair of whitish, black- 

 edged dots on the sacral region ; sometimes a few other pairs of 

 similar spots on the head and back ; sides of head blackish ; canthus 

 rostralis, edge of upper eyelid, and glandular lateral fold pink ; 

 beneath light brown, indistinctly speckled with darker. Male with 

 a subgular vocal sac. 



Madagascar. 



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