

846 AMPHIBIA. 



nearly obscured by very fine brown punctulations, whicb do not usually extend on to 

 the granules of the belly, which are yellowish. 



Inches. 



Length of snout to vent .......... 0'80 



„ of hind limb 1-35 



of hind foot 0-47 



of gape . . . . . . . . . • . 30 



On level marshy flats on the banis of the Nampoung in the centre of the 

 Kakhyen hills. 



Genus Hylarana, Tschudi. 

 Htlabana ertthrjea, Schlegel. 



Hyla erythraa, Schleg., Ahbild. 1837-44i, p. 27, tab. 9, fig. 3. 



Kylarana, erytliraa, Tschudi., Classif. Batr. Mem. Soc., So. Nat. Neuchat., 1838, vol. ii, p. 37 et 

 78 ; Giinther, Eept. Brit. Ind., 1864, p. 425; Stoliczka, Proc. As. Soc, Bengal, 1872, p. 104. 



Limnodytes erytJiraus , Dum. & Bibr., Erpet. Genl., vol. viii, p. 841, p. 511, pi. Ixxxviii, fig. 1 ; Can- 

 tor, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, 1847, vol. xvi, p. 1062. 



This is not an uncommon species at Shuay-goo-myo, Upper Burma, where 

 I obtained it in the month of March under logs of timber near the river bank. 



These specimens from Upper Burma agree in all their details with individuals 

 from Siam ; and, like all the examples of S. erythrcea that have come under my 

 observation, they have no tubercle at the base of the fourth toe. It was the existence 

 of this tubercle, and the very prominent character of the tubercle at the base of 

 the first toe of S. tytleri, Theobald, that led Stoliczka to consider the Lower Bengal 

 form as distinct from H. erythrcea. In aU other respects, however, the two forms 

 are so closely allied that it seems extremely doubtful that they are distinct ; but as 

 the materials are not yet sufiicient to settle the question, I have hesitated to include 

 H.. tytleri as a synonym of IL. erythrcea. 



Htlabana mabgakiana, n. s., Plate LXXVIII. 



Body slender. Head of moderate breadth and rather flat, but slightly arched 

 from behind forwards and of little vertical depth. The breadth across the tympana 

 equals the distance between the hinder border of one tympanum and the tip of the 

 snout. The transverse interval between the nostrils is four-fifths of that between the 

 tympana. The canthus rostralis is rounded, with the loreal region deeply concave, 

 with the nostril thus close to the end of the snout. The tympanum is large, 

 nearly equalling the size of the eye. The vomerine teeth are very feebly developed 

 on two obscure ridges directed obliquely backwards from the anterior inner angle of 

 the choanse, but widely separated from each other in the mesial line. The tongue is 

 elongately circular and broadly notched behind. The limbs are long and slender ; 

 the fore Umb from the head of the humerus to the tip of the third finger equals 

 the distance between the vent and the front border of the tympanum. The 



