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converging behind, between the shoulder [s] ; throat smooth ; 
belly and lower surface of thighs granulate.” 
Color. — “Grey above, with a large X-shaped dark marking 
or a pair of ) (-shaped bands on the back, a dark cross band 
or triangular blotch between the eyes, and regular cross bands 
on the limbs ; a black light-edged spot on the knee ; a streak below 
the canthus rostralis, a bar below the eye, and the whole tem- 
poral region blackish ; dirty white beneath, throat finely speckled 
with brown; a series of small round white spots on the lower 
lip. Male with internal vocal sacs. 
“From snout to vent 21 millim.” 
Remarks. — According to Boulenger the species is most closely 
related to Philautus schmackeri (Boettger). Three specimens 
were collected in Palawan by A. Everett. 
I observed a specimen, which probably belonged to this 
species, in a mass of small plants just above a high waterfall 
in northern Palawan. I succeeded in getting the specimen but 
slipped while doing so. The ensuing fall liberated the specimen, 
which escaped by leaping over the waterfall. 
Philautus acutirostris (Peters). 
Ixaliis acutirostris Peters, Mon. Berl. Ak. (1867) 32; Boulenger, 
Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus. ed. 2 (1882) 99; Boettger, Ber. Senck. 
Nat. Ges. (1886) 123; Casto de Elera, Cat. Fauna Filipinas 1 
(1895) 449. 
Description of species. — (After Peters.) Snout pointed, can- 
thus rostralis distinct; nostrils as far from each other as from 
end of snout; distance between nostrils contained in their dis- 
tance from eye twice; tympanum very small, partly covered by 
skin ; small granules upon the smooth skin of body as well as on 
eyelid ; back part of the thigh and belly densely granulated ; web 
on feet goes to the base of last joint on third and fifth toes. 
Color. — Brown, and on the sides gray; small white dots present. 
Between the eyes an indistinct, brown, triangular spot, with a 
distinct spot near its posterior border; anterior and posterior 
side of thigh brown; below yellowish white. 
Measurements of Philautus acutirostris (Peters). 
mm. 
Total length 
22 
Foreleg 
15 
Hind leg 
40 
Remarks . — This species is known from two specimens, collected 
by Carl Semper in Mindanao. 
