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c\ No vomerine teeth; tympanum distinct; fingers free, toes webbed, 
disks large Staurois Cope. 
c\ Vomerine teeth usually present; fingers more or less webbed; toes 
webbed; disks present; skin of head sometimes involved in 
cranial ossification.... Polypedates Tschudi. 
c^ Vomerine teeth wanting; fingers free, toes webbed; disks present; 
head with bony ridges ; skin of head involved in cranial ossification. 
Hazelia g. nov. 
c\ Vomerine teeth wanting; fingers free or webbed; toes webbed, disks 
present; skin on head not involved in cranial ossification. 
Philautus Gistel. 
b’. Vomerine teeth present; no intercalated bone between last two 
terminal phalanges; fingers free; toes usually free, sometimes 
slightly webbed; outer metatarsals united or separated by a groove; 
terminal phalanges T-shaped Cormifer Tschudi. 
Genus OXYGLOSSUS Tschudi 
Oxyglossus Tschudi, Glass. Batr. (1838) 35; Dumeril and Bibron, 
Erp. Gen. 8 (1841) 332; Gunther, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus. 
(1858) 6; Cope, Nat. Hist. Rev. (1865) 117; Boettger, Ber. Senck. 
Nat. Ges. (1886) 121; Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus. ed. 
2 (1882) 5; Fauna Brit. India, Rept. (1890) 436. 
Microdiscopus Peters, Mon. Berl. Ak. (1877) 422. 
“Pupil horizontal. Tongue narrow, entire, and free behind. 
Vomerine teeth none. Tympanum indistinct. Fingers free; 
toes webbed, the tips not dilated into regular disks. Outer meta- 
tarsals separated by a web. Omosternum with a bony style; 
sternum a cartilaginous plate. Terminal phalanges simple.” 
{Boulenger.) 
Three species of this genus are known, only one of which 
appears to enter our territory. A second is included in Casto 
de Elera’s list, but the specimen reported to be in the Santo 
Tomas University collection is no longer extant. 
Oxyglossus Isevis Gunther. Plate 1, fig. 1. 
Oxyglossus Isevis Gunther, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus. 7 (1858) pi. 
1, fig. A; Rept. Brit. India (1864) 401; Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. 
Brit. Mus. ed. 2 (1882) 6; Fauna Brit. India, Rept. (1890) 437; 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London (1897) 228; Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. 
Bengal (1870) 273; (1872) 101; Boettger, Ber. Senck. Nat. Ges. 
(1886) 121; Boulenger, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. VI 14 (1894) 85. 
Microdiscopus sumatranus Peters, Mon. Berl. Ak. (1877) 422, 682. 
Description of species . — (From No. 1236, E. H. Taylor col- 
lection; collected at Hinigaran, Occidental Negros, P. I., March, 
1915, by E. H. Taylor.) No vomerine teeth; choanse small, 
round, not widely separated; tongue regularly oval, rounded 
behind; no canthus rostralis; head broader than long; loreal 
