302 
Philippine Journal of Science 
1920 
Remarks . — This specimen appears to be the second one known. 
The type was discovered in Leyte by John Whitehead and was 
presented to the British Museum. 
Philautus sehmackeri (Boettger.) 
Ixalus sehmackeri Boettger, Kat. Bat.-Samml. Mus. Senck. Nat. Ges. 
(1892). 
Description of species. — Tongue pear-shaped, deeply notched 
behind, without papilla; head large, broader than back; snout 
sharply pointed, a little longer than diameter of eye; canthus 
angular, loreal region slightly depressed; nostril much nearer 
end of snout than eye; interorbital distance broader than an 
eyelid; tympanum distinct, about one-fourth the size of eye; 
fingers without web, first shorter and much slighter than sec- 
ond, third especially long and well developed ; toes half webbed ; 
toes with well-developed disks distinctly larger than tympanum ; 
subarticular tubercles well developed ; a slight inner metatarsal 
tubercle, tibiotarsal articulation reaching much beyond tip of 
snout; skin above smooth; below granulated; a light curved 
skin fold over eye to shoulder. 
Color. — Above dark olive brown; a greenish white line from 
point of snout above nostrils, across edges of eyelids, over tym- 
panum to side of body, there spreading as a large rhomboidal 
spot of lighter color; in middle of back the dark brown color 
of the back takes the shape of an hourglass; a large bright 
yellowish white spot on knee and elbow; legs above banded 
with darker brown ; edges of lips dark brown with pure white 
spots; entire underside of body marbled with brown; neck 
brown, with light dots and a band across belly spotted and 
m.arbled with black. 
Measurements of Philautus sehmackeri (Boettger) . 
Total length of body 
18.5 
Length of head 
8.5 
Width of head 
8 
Diameter of eye 
3.25 
Tympanum 
.75 
Foreleg 
10 
Hind leg 
37 
Femur 
12.5 
Tibia 
13 
Disk of fourth toe 
1 
Remarks. — The type specimen was collected on Mount Halcon, 
Mindoro. The name of the collector appears to be unknown. 
