1870.] Indian and Malayan Amphibia and Reptilia. 147 



length of the body are also not rare in the Sundarbans, and the 

 species here principally lives in pools of water which is more or less 

 brackish. 



3 . Pyxieephalus breviceps, S c h n e i d. (G- u n t h. 1. cit. p. 411). 

 A specimen was obtained by my collectors in the forests above 



Kotegurh at about 7000 feet ; body measured 2£", the hind leg 2f". 



Fam. Polypedatid^:. 



4. Polypedates Hascheamis, n. sp. Pi IX, Fig. 3. 



Body moderately slender, anteriorly rather wider than posteriorly 

 and depressed ; skin smooth or with few indistinct small tubercles 

 except above the eyes ; snout moderate, obtuse, slightly longer 

 than the distance between the eyes ; fore foot, when laid for- 

 ward, exceeds the snout nearly by the whole length of the first fing- 

 er ; the distance between anus and heel is slightly less than the 

 length of the body ; tympanum round, smaller than the eye; the dorsal 

 glandular fold is rather indistinct on the forepart of the body, but 

 clearly traceable on the posterior half of it, a second glandular fold 

 runs from the hind edge of the orbit above the tympanum to the 

 upper arm ; toes slightly webbed in young specimens, but in the 

 largest specimen observed they are about one-third webbed ; only the 

 terminal disks of toes are conspicuously flattened and enlarged ; the' 

 inner metatarsal tubercle is large and compressed the outer at the 

 base of the fourth toe almost obsolete ; vomerine ridges very small 

 and distant, but present even in the smallest specimens less than 

 half an inch long. 



Colour above lighter or darker olive brown with few irregular 

 small spots, (sometimes, though rarely pale, almost yellowish olive) . 

 with a black band between the eyes, edged with light in front, 

 followed by a W mark, the ends of which begin almost behind the 

 eyes, a pair of somewhat indistinct blackish spots below the middle 

 of the body ; sides of the front part of the body black, lips slightly 

 spotted with white, a large white spot behind the angle of the 

 mouth, sides of body mottled and punctated with white and black 

 limbs with dark brown cross bands ; lower parts whitish olive 

 mottled and finely punctated with dusky, especially on the sides 

 about the fore and on the hind limbs. 



