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Philippine Journal of Science 
1920 
Description of type . — Vomerine teeth wanting; choange large, 
prominent, separated from inner eye prominences by a distance 
equal to one-half their diameter; tongue elongate with a large 
V-shaped notch, making two rather long horns behind; head 
longer than broad, bluntly pointed; canthus rostralis rather 
rounded; diameter of eye equal to distance of eye from nostril; 
nostril two and one-half times farther from eye than from end 
of snout ; loreal region sloping obliquely, slightly concave ; diam- 
eter of tympanum a little more than one-half diameter of eye, 
separated from eye by a distance equal to one-third its diameter ; 
interorbital region one and one-half times width of an upper 
eyelid ; skin smooth above, on head, back, and sides ; chin smooth ; 
posterior part of belly and thigh strongly granular; a slight 
supratemporal fold; arms short with a very narrow insertion: 
fingers broad, slightly webbed at base, with well-developed digital 
disks; disks equal to about two-thirds diameter of tympanum; 
first finger much shorter than second, its disk only slightly smaller 
than that of second; these two digits rather opposed to third 
and fourth; fourth finger reaches a little beyond base of disk 
of third; an indistinct skin fold on outer side of fourth digit, 
continued to elbow on outer side of arm ; no inner web on arm ; 
large nuptial excrescence on first finger; a well-defined kink at 
base of disks; toes two-thirds webbed, membranes reaching to 
base of toe disks only on outer side of second toe ; fifth toe slightly 
longer than third, its disk reaching last subarticular tubercle 
on fourth toe; a very small, conical, inner metatarsal tubercle, 
about one-sixth the length of first toe; no outer tubercle; no 
fold on outer toe or along foot; subarticular tubercles well 
developed, not approaching disks in size; tibiotarsal articulation 
reaches tip of snout. 
Color in life . — Above uniform, shiny, lavender-gray, with 
numerous very small, not clearly outlined, yellow spots; tip of 
snout darker than back; lores and upper lip gray, powdered 
with minute brown dots; a creamy yellow spot in front and 
somewhat below tympanum; latter light brown; irregular, dis- 
tinct, dark spots from eye above arm and along sides, and areas 
of creamy yellow ; belly dirty white to cream ; chin with numerous 
small dusky spots; belly spotted; underside of limbs powdered 
with brown; anal region with a dark area, surrounded with a 
lighter yellow rim; arm and fingers with purplish brown bars; 
leg and foot barred with same color. 
