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POLYPEDATIDJ^. 845 



IxALUs KAKHiENENsis, n. sp., Plate LXXVIII. 



Head rather broad ; snout short and moderately pointed. The canthus rostralis 

 rounded ; the area before the eye rather deeply concave. The tympanum less than 

 one-half the size of the eye. Limbs moderately elongated, and the disks rather large. 

 The toes fuUy webbed, with the exception of the fourth toe, in which the membrane 

 does not reach its extremity. The fore limb when laid forwards has the wrist nearly 

 reaching the snout, and the hind limb has the heel slightly beyond the snout. The 

 upper surface of the body and the sides of the head are dark oHve black, paling on 

 the upper surface of the limbs to olive brown, obscurely transversely banded with 

 blackish-brown. Chin, throat, and chest and sides of body marbled with brown and 

 whitish. The belly yellowish, and obscurely brown spotted. The under sui-face of 

 the limbs yellowish, and finely brown speckled ; finger and toes yellowish and brown 

 banded, the disks being blackish. 



Inches. 



Length of body snout to vent . . . . . . , . 0'93 



J, of fore limb ••........ 0"57 



„ of hind limb .......... 1-62 



In fields, in the Nampoung valley, 1,000 feet. 



IxALUS TUBEECUiATUS, n. sp., Plate LXXVIII. 



Snout short and rather broad and very slightly concave before the eyes. 



Canthus rostrahs feebly developed and rounded. Nostril but little below the canthus 



rostralis, small, but with a rather swollen margin, and much nearer the end of the 



snout than the eye, which is rather large, and the eyelids finely tubercxilar. The 



tympanum is about one-fourth the dimensions of the eye. The fore limb when laid 



forwards has the wrist, and the hind limb the heel, at the tip of the snout. The 



disks of the fingers are considerably dilated and larger than those on the toes. The 



latter are very feebly webbed, the web reaching only to the end of the first phalanx. 



SmaU scattered isolated tubercles on the upper surface and on the sides of the body, 



the belly and the inner aspect of the upper third of the thighs being finely granular. 



General colour of the upper parts is uniform dark olive. All the small tul^ercles, 



as a rule, white. In some specimens, a transverse pale yellowish band between the 



eyes and two similar bands behind them. A large black irregular spot on the groin, 



extending halfway up the side with two yellow spots, the thigh broadly but 



obscurely banded with dark brown and yellow, one broad band across the middle of 



the tMgh and lower leg. The humeral portion of the arm brownish, marbled with 



yellowish ; elbow yellow ; limb below marked with dark oHve and paler yellowish 



spotted. Sides of snout and upper hp marked with yellowish and olive, and lower 



lip and chin with brown and yellow. Chest and belly yellowish, but this colour is 



