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one is a complete link to Rhacopliorus, having the basal portion of 

 the fingers webbed. It is a very beautiful species which I shall 

 call P. anncctans. 



P. smaragdinus grows to a large size, about equalling Pol. 

 mannoratus, B 1 y t h, (Afghana, Gr ii n t h e r). It resembles P. macula- 

 tus something in habit, but is not so slender : the upper surface 

 of the head and hind neck is slightly rough with minute tubercles, 

 whilst the lower surface of body is perfectly smooth. The body is 

 not nearly so long as the hind leg to the heel, whilst in maculatus 

 it is as long or slightly longer. Colour, a beautiful green above, 

 below yellow. The sides of body and thighs variegated and banded 

 with reddish brown and black. The disks of the fingers and toes 

 are not very large. Length of one, head and body 3^ inches, hind 

 leg 6£. 



I obtained Rhacopliorus gigas in Sikim and the Khasi hills, where 

 I also obtained what appears to be the true Rhacopliorus Rein- 

 wardtii. This is a much smaller species than gigas, and all my 

 Khasi specimens have one or two deep blue spots on the sides of 

 the body, but the dark mark on the webs of the toes is less marked, 

 than in the figures of this species in Schlegel. 



I recorded Rhacopliorus Reinwardtii apud D u m. and B i b r o n, 

 from Malabar in my Catalogue, whence it was also procured by the 

 French collectors, but G ii n t h e r has entirely ignored this genus as 

 from Southern India. Major B e d d o m e has sent me a specimen, on 

 comparing which with Khasi specimens a perceptible difference is 

 apparent. The head and body of the Malabar are indistinctly 

 though finely tuborculated ; the habit is more slender, and there is 

 a distinct fold of skin over the eye in Reinwardtii, absent in this. 

 The hoad too is perhaps a trifle longer. I shall provisionally call 

 it Rhacopliorus malabaricus. It has the spots on the sides of the 

 body, so conspicuous in Khasi specimens of Reinwardtii. 



I have also got a now Pyxicephalus from the Khasi hills, and 

 Bed dome has sent mo apparently my P. rufescens from the 

 Wynaad. He also sent me small specimens of P. breviceps, which 

 from their appearance during life, ho, like myself, considered to 

 form two distinct species, and which Theobald also considers to 

 be distinct. 



