1870.] Indian and Malayan Amphibia and Reptilia. 155 



three specimens under a large block of wood at Martaban (near 

 Moulmein) in company with one small Caloula pulchra and young 

 specimens of Bufo melanosticus. 



The measurements of my specimens are as follows : — 



a. b. c. 



12 



Length of body, , -^r 1 1 inch. 



Distance from anus to metatarsal 



tubercle, -^ 1 1~ „ 



Length of fourth toe, . . , -J- -J- -^- ,, 



Specimen c has a pale median dorsal streak extending the whole 

 length of the body, the two others have none. 



10. Caloula pulchra, Gray, (G- u n t h., 1. cit. p. 437). 



In spite of the dilated disks of the toes and fingers, this remark- 

 able Batrachian is by no means arboreal in its habit. I twice 

 observed it near Moulmein. It appeared after sunset about the 

 same time as Bufo melanosticus, crawling on old wood and feeding 

 on white ants. 



In external character both Caloula and Diplopelma are very close- 

 ly allied, and young specimens of the former, in which the vome- 

 rine ridge is not developed, can strictly speaking hardly be dis- 

 tinguished from the latter, except by the slightly more dilated disks 

 of the toes. I am even not quite certain whether the distinctions 

 between the two are really such as to entitle them to generic rank, 

 which doubt especially becomes apparent, when we compare the 

 descriptions of the two other Burmese species of Diplopelma 

 described by B 1 y t h ; in any case when kept distinct they should 

 be classed close together in one family. 



Fam. Bufonidje. 



11. Bufo viridis, L a u r. (Gr ii nth., Cat. Bat. Brit. Mus. p. 58). 

 Steindachner (Nov. Exped., Amph. p. 40) already recorded 



this species as occurring in Spiti. It is found throughout the Sutlej 

 valley from Kotegurh upwards, but is always rare. At Kotegurh, 

 between 6 and 9000 feet, it is occasionally met within localities 

 where B. melanosticus also occurs, but further to east in Kunavar, 



