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



9. Biplopelma carnaticum, J e r d., PL IX, Fig. 5. 



Frngystoma carnaticum, J e r d o n, Journ. Asiat. Soc, Beng. 

 1853, XXII, p. 534. 



Body moderately stout with proportionate limbs ; snout short, 

 obtuse, its length being equal, or hardly equal, to the width of the 

 head between the eyes ; a front limb when laid forward exceeds the 

 snout by half the length of the third finger ; length of body equal to, 

 or very little less, than the distance between the anus and the 

 metatarsal tubercle ; length of fourth toe equal to, or less than, half 

 the length of the body ; skin on the posterior part of the femora 

 extended as in Caloula ; fingers and toes with small rounded disks ; 

 two metatarsal tubercles, the one at the base of the first toe is 

 elongated and compressed, the other at the base of the fifth toe 

 either a little larger, or scarcely smaller and rounded ; toes only 

 webbed at the base, their length variable. 



Color above isabella or yellowish brown, with a dark bottle- 

 shaped mark along the back beginning between the eyes with a 

 tris-cusped edge, after which it contracts, then again widens, and a 

 little below the middle of the body divides in two pairs of branches, 

 of which the posterior extends to the base of the femora ; a trian- 

 gular black mark about the anus, extending below ; on each side 

 of the median brown mark are undulating longitudinal dusky 

 streaks, these lateral portion of the back are sometimes, during life, 

 tinged with rose colour, similar to Caloula pulchra ; limbs with 

 brown cross bars, sides dark, purplish black, this color disappear- 

 ing posteriorly, an oblique pale streak extending from the eye 

 towards the shoulder ; below dull whitish, mottled with dusky, 

 especially on chin and throat. 



This is, as Dr. Jerdon (Proc. Asiat. Soc, March, 1870, p. 85) 

 remarks, a wide spread species. I am indebted to him for the 

 identification of my specimens, their colouring being almost per- 

 fectly identical with his original drawing from which the scanty 

 notice of ling, carnaticum, published nearly 20 years ago in the 

 Society's Journal, was taken. It was originally described from the 

 Carnatic ; numerous specimens exist from Beerbhoom in the Asiat. 

 Soc. Col. ; Dr. Jerdon obtained it in the Khasi hills, and I found 



