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Polypedates appendiculatus (Gunther). Plate 8, figs. 2, 2a., and 26. 
Rhacophorus appendiculatus Gunther, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus. 
(1858) 79; Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus. ed. 2 (1882) 86, 
pi. 8, fig. 4; Boettger, Ber. Senck. Nat. Ges. (1886) 122; Abh. Ber. 
Mus. Dresden 7 (1894-95) 2. 
Descihption of species . — (From No. 184, E. H. Taylor col- 
lection; collected at Bunawan, Agusan, Mindanao, P. I., Sep- 
tember, 1912, by E. H. Taylor.) Vomerine teeth in two 
converging series, beginning on anterior inner edge of choanse, 
not especially distinct; choanse not large; head distinctly longer 
than wide; eye prominent, its diameter slightly longer than 
distance from eye to nostril; canthus rostralis rounded, the 
area about nostrils forming two small rounded prominences, 
with a slight depression between them; forehead not concave; 
lores concave, sloping obliquely ; snout somewhat triangular, con- 
stricted in front of nostrils, forming a distinct “nose ;” diameter 
of tympanum equal to, or a little more than, half diameter of 
eye, very close to orbit, the distance separating them about one- 
fifth to one-sixth diameter of tympanum; distance of nostril to 
end of snout contained one and one-half times in its distance 
from eye; a very distinct skin fold from eye to arm above tym- 
panum; skin rough, tubercular, or warty, especially on head, 
snout, and shoulders, and on sides of head about tympanum; 
skin on posterior part of back as well as on the limbs rather 
smooth ; chin and chest smooth ; belly and under aspect of thighs 
strongly granular; hand slightly less than one-third webbed; 
digits with broad disks, equal to, or slightly smaller than, tym- 
panum ; first finger shorter than second, fourth longer than sec- 
ond, reaching terminal disk of third ; subdigital tubercles prom- 
inent; a very slight skin fold from base of third finger along 
inner arm ; toes more than three-fourths webbed, the webs reach- 
ing to near base of disks on outer sides of toes; disks smaller 
than those on fingers ; third and fifth toes of equal length ; inner 
metatarsal tubercle well developed, outer indistinct or wanting; 
a decided, undulous skin fold along outer side of fifth toe and 
tarsus, and on outer part of forearm; two small cutaneous 
prominences below anus ; hind limb brought forward, tibiotarsal 
articulation reaches to near tip of snout. 
Color in life. — Above, light brownish lavender on head, back, 
and sides, and above limbs; two broad, rather irregular stripes 
of light pale lavender to whitish from eye to groin; below 
creamy white. 
