SUPPOSED NEW GENUS OF CEYLON BATRACHIANS. 3 



Tent from heel. The third finger is about one-tenth of an 

 inch longer than the fourth, which is slightly longer than 

 the second. These three fingers form a pal mated group in 

 advance of the first, and are very slightly webbed. First 

 finger about half the length of the third. Metatarsus with 

 a small tubercle below the first toe. The fourth toe 

 (including the metatarsus) is exactly one half the length of 

 the body. The third toe is slightly longer than the fifth. A 

 very short web between the first, second, third, and fourth 

 toes only. The fifth appears to be quite free. 



Upper parts (in spirits) dark brown with lighter coloured 

 spots ; outer parts of hind and fore limbs clouded with 

 brown ; inner sides, and the cutaneous expansion coloured 

 dark grey, with small brown spots ; belly dark livid colour ; 

 throat suffused with brown. 



The following are the dimensions of the only specimen in 

 my possession: — length of body 1*8; vent to heel 1*6; hind 

 limbs 2-8; fourth, toe (including the metatarsus) 0*9 inches, 



I do not know any frog with which to compare this one 

 in its general appearance and character ; it is one of a few 

 set aside from my collection by Major Beddome, when on 

 a visit to Colombo lately, and pronounced by that gentleman 

 to be new to science, and which, from a feeling of delicacy 

 he declined to accept from me, In searching for its place 

 in the synoptical list of the characters of the genera of 

 Batrachians given in page 400 of Glinther's work on Indian 

 Reptiles, I felt that it could scarcely be removed from the 

 first division, b, of the group of Ground Frogs, and it 

 seemed most closely allied to the genus Xenophnjs, of which 

 one species X. mouticola, is described and figured by 

 Giinther in .the work referred to, p. 414, and plate xxvi, 

 figure H.. 



