1062 Catalogue of Reptiles inhabiting the [Oct. 



cloacal orifice. On the shoulder, near the triangular tubercle, the 

 ridge is enclosed between two short black lines. 



Two males were at different times captured on the Pentland Hills, 

 at an elevation of about 1800 ft. One was found in a dark room, 

 where it was observed remaining motionless during several successive 

 days. Its forms and colours caused it at first to be mistaken for a 

 withered leaf. The second was taken on a tree. The iris is vertically 

 contracted by exposure to the light. The male has no vocal sacs. 

 The larger was of the following dimensions : 



Length of the head, 0-J inch. 



Ditto ditto trunk, 1-} 



Ditto ditto anterior extremities, 2 



Ditto ditto posterior, 3f 



FAM. HYLIDiE. 



Gen. Limnodytes,* Dumeril and Bibron. 

 Tongue long, narrowed in front, widened, forked, free behind ; teeth 

 on the vomer forming two groups, between the internal openings of the 

 nostrils ; tympanum distinct ; Eustachian tubes middling ; four fingers 

 free ; toes completely or partially webbed ; sub-digital disks slightly 

 dilated ; process of the first os cuneiforme blunt, very minute ; males 

 with vocal sacs ; sacral transversal processes not dilated. 



LlMNODYTES ERYTHR^US, (Sclllegel). 



Syn. — Hyla erythraea, Schlegel. 



Hylarana erythraea Tschudi. 



Limnodytes erythreeus, Dumeril and Bibron. 



Back and sides brown or reddish-olive ; a longitudinal silvery white 

 band from the eye to the loin ; a second similar from the nostrils, 

 parallel with the former. Beneath silvery white. The innerside of 

 the extremities spotted and lineated with brown. Iris golden brown ; 

 pupil vertically rhomboidal. 



Habit. — Malayan Peninsula, 

 Java, Arracan. 



Of three individuals observed, the largest was of the following dimen- 

 sions : 



* This denomination has with propriety been substituted for the inadmissible Hyla- 

 liana, Tschudi. 



