6 ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, (CEYLON BRANCH.)* 



Professor of Zoology in the University of Prague. On m 



fly sheet after page 21 of the second part of Dr. Kelaart's 

 Prodromus of the Faunae of Ceylon, published in 1853, 

 this frog is very briefly described by the late Dr. Kelaart 

 under the following name, " Polypedafes (? ) Schmarda. ru 

 s. nobis,'"' The " Schmarda " being no doubt a slip of the 

 pen for " Schmardatia" under which latter name, and under 

 the genus Ixalus, G until er refers to this, then doubtful frog, 

 in his Indian Reptiles, p. 433. Theobald in his Catalogue 

 referred to, p. 85 ; gives this frog as follows :■— 



" Polypedates Smaragdinus, Kelaart, Ceylon. Eye bones armed 

 with spines. Limbs studded with tubercular sharp pointed spines. 

 A very peculiar species, and probably a distinct generic form." 



Jerdon in the paper referred to, pp. 83-84, and Ander- 

 son in his list of accessions to the collection of reptiles 

 in the Indian Museum, since 1865, refer distinctly to an 

 Indian frog described by Blyth in foot-note to p. 48 of 

 Appendix to Kelaart's Pro. Faun. Zeyl, as the Polypedates 

 Smaragdinvs, found on the Khasi hills. The specific name 

 here means Emerald Green, and Mr. Theobald's P. Smarag- 

 dinus, ought to have been P. Schmardana. On page 85 of 

 the Annals and Magazine of Natural History for January, 

 1&72, containing " descriptions of some Ceylon ese Reptiles 

 and Batrachians by Dr. Giinther, this frog is finally and I 

 suppose properly named, though not yet described, as Ixalus 

 Schmardanus" (Kelaart.) 



