1870.] Indian and Malayan Amphibia and Reptilia % 149 



The snout is somewhat narrow in the more fully grown specimen. 

 The fourth toe is rather short, the web reaching to the tip of the 

 third and fifth toe. The first toe has at its base a very prominent 

 laterally compressed tubercle, and another considerably smaller 

 tubercle is at the base of the fourth toe, the last is not mentioned 

 by Griintheror Dum. and B i b r o n in the description of 

 erythrcea. The upper glandular fold is as usually distinct, the lower 

 begins above the base of the upper lip, is interrupted above the hu- 

 merus, then bends downwards as a short fold and disappears without 

 continuing along the side of the body. From the upper hinder edge 

 of the tympanum also a short thickened fold runs to the humeral 

 tubercle. This character also occurs on two other specimens of 

 unknown habitat in the Asiatic Society's Museum, but in the one 

 named Tytleri by Theobald, there seem to be, besides the short 

 curved glandular ridge, slight traces of its lateral extension, it being 

 broken up until it disappears on the posterior middle part of the 

 belly. In this last specimen the toes are also fully webbed, and the 

 fourth toe is little more than half the length of the body, as in typical 

 erythrcea. The lower portions of the femora are distinctly granular. 



The Moulmein young specimen is dark brownish green above, 

 black on the sides, the old one olive green above, blackish on the an- 

 terior half of the sides, and mottled with black on the posterior ; the 

 glandular folds are white, the upper lips with a white streak, but 

 their edges are blackish ; the lower parts are pale mottled with black 

 on the anterior half ; the hinder parts of the femora are also mottled 

 or marbled with black, but the upper sides of both fore and hind 

 limbs are brown banded. This last coloration is also never mention- 

 ed in the published descriptions of erythrcea, though Schlegel's 

 figure apparently seems to indicate it on the tarsal portion of the 

 hind limbs. 



It would seem, without a comparison of typical specimens of 

 erythrcea, rather difficult to state whether our Lower Bengal and 

 Burmese specimens have to be specifically separated from erythrcea, 

 or not, but with all the apparent very great similarity they really 

 seem to me to be distinct. In Theobald's type, specimen* of 



* This is the Dacca specimen to which B 1 y t h alludes when he says of 

 Hylorana (Lymnodytes) mowularia (Journal, Asiatic Society, Bengal, XXIII, 



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