150 Indian and Malayan Amphibia and Reptilia. [No. 2, 



H. Tytleri the measurements almost perfectly agree with those of 

 erythrcea, the body is by nearly half the length of the snout longer 

 than the distance between vent and heel, and the fourth toe is 

 slightly more than half the length of the body. There are, however, 

 two distinct metatarsal tubercles of which the one on the first toe 

 is very prominent and large, and the legs are banded brown above. 

 If these last characters never occur in erythrcea of the southern 

 regions, the specific name Tytleri will have to be reserved for 

 our form. The indistinct continuation of the lower glandular fold on 

 the body cannot be taken into consideration, neither the somewhat 

 elongated form of the fourth toe, for there can be no doubt that the 

 two above mentioned specimens from Moulmein, and two others in 

 the Museum, (either also from Lower Bengal or from Burma), are 

 identical with Theobald' s Tytleri, and in all these, the lower 

 glandular fold bends down behind the fore limb and then disap- 

 pears ; the fourth toe also is slightly shorter than half the length of 

 the body ; in other characters all the specimens entirely agree. 



Hylorana Nicobariensis, n. sp. Pi. IX, Fig. 2. 



In its slender habit resembling the last, but the snout is narrower 

 and more obtusely rounded than in that species, its end very little 

 projecting above the lower jaw; canthus rostralis rounded ; loreal 

 region slightly excavated ; tympanum round, almost circular and 

 little smaller than the eye ; skin in the males above, finely granular, 

 more distinctly so posteriorly, lower side of the femora coarsely 

 granular ; in the females the skin is smoother ; a distinct gland runs 

 from behind the eye on each side of the upper edge of the back ; 

 a second gland is indicated by two tubercles, one behind the angle 

 of the mouth and the second posterior to it above the humerus, 

 and in some specimens there is even a third much smaller tubercle 

 present from which a short rim bends downwards ; all these glands, 

 however, are much less distinct in very young specimens. 



p. 299), that it differs from erythrcea "by its shorter and stouter limbs and short 

 anterior digits, &c." Gunther's somewhat sarcastic remark (1. oit. p. 425) 

 on that point is uncalled for, because B 1 y t h ' s type of macularia is actually 2| 

 in total length, and the distance from veut to heel only two, consequently less 

 than that of the body, and the limbs are thus actually stouter and shorter than 

 in the specimen described by G ii n t h e r, though both no doubt are the same 

 species. 



