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Mindoro, Samar, Leyte, Negros, the Calamianes, Mindanao, and 
Palawan. I failed to get specimens in the Sulu Archipelago; 
but it very probably occurs there as I found specimens in Zam- 
boanga, and in Borneo on the coast nearest the southern end of 
the Sulu Archipelago. 
There appears to be no definite breeding season for the species. 
In Baguio, northern Luzon, I found floating masses of fertile 
eggs in December and May. In Manila I have found them in 
June and July. In Mindanao a number of egg masses were 
collected from branches above pools of water in September. 
One mass taken contained seven hundred eighty-six eggs. 
Polypedates surdus Peters. 
Polypedates surdus Peters, Mon. Berl. Ak. (1863) 459. 
Rhacophorus surdus BouLENGER, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus. ed. 2 
(1882) 79; Boettger, Ber. Senck. Nat. Ges. (1886) 122; Casto de 
Elera, Cat. Fauna Filipinas 1 (1895) 449. 
Description of species . — Vomerine teeth in two short oblique 
series, beginning on inner edge of choanse and lying between and 
behind them ; tongue cordiform, very deeply notched behind ; choa- 
nffi smaller by almost one-half than openings of Eustachian tubes. 
Head as broad as long ; distance between anterior corners of eyes 
equal to their distance from point of snout; canthus rostralis 
distinct; distance between nostrils equal to their distance from 
eye; nostrils nearer end of snout than eye; loreal region con- 
cave; tympanum entirely covered, but its outline more or less 
visible, the diameter equaling about half the eye; diameter of 
eye shorter than snout; foreleg reaches almost to back end of 
body; fingers with rudiments of a web; finger disks large, 
rounded, that on first finger small; first finger shorter than 
second, fourth longer than first or second ; subarticular tubercles 
and carpal tubercles large; tibiotarsal articulation reaches tip 
of snout; toes a little more than half webbed, last two joints 
of fourth and last joints of the others free; disks of toes larger 
than those of fingers; fifth toe very little longer than third; 
subarticular tubercles and the two metatarsal tubercles well 
developed; skin with a few small tubercles above; below, entire 
surface granular. 
Color . — Above dark brown; a small stripe on point of snout 
and a larger one on lip in front of eye; a greenish white stripe 
from eye to axilla; sides of body whitish, marbled with brown; 
below brownish, throat speckled with yellowish ; legs with brown 
bars; posterior aspect of thigh marbled with brown. 
