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Description of species. — (From Boulenger.) “Habit slender. 
Snout subacuminate, longer than the orbital diameter; inter- 
orbital space broader than the upper eyelid. Fingers rather 
slender, first much shorter than second; toes slender, webbed 
at the base; tips of fingers swollen into very small, of toes into 
well-developed disks; subarticular tubercles distinct; two small 
metatarsal tubercles. The hind limb being carried forwards 
along the body, the tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the tip of 
the snout, or beyond. Skin smooth.” 
Color. — “Brown above; sides and a streak between the eyes 
dark brown ; sometimes the back with rather indistinct chevron- 
shaped darker and lighter lines and a narrow light vertebral 
line; limbs more or less distinctly cross-barred; anal region 
blackish.” 
Remarks. — This species is included here on the strength of 
Fischer’s report, but not without some doubt. His specimen 
was presumably from southern Mindanao. The species is known 
from the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Nias, and Java. Barbour’s 
specimen from Java was taken at an altitude of about 1,520 
meters. The fact that no more specimens have been found in 
the Philippines may be due to the paucity of collections from 
high mountains. 
Genus KALOTJLA Gray 
Kaloula Gray, Zool. Misc. (1831) 38; Gunther, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. 
Mus. (1858) 122. 
Hylaedactylus Tschudi, Class. Batr. (1838) 85; Dumeril and Bibron, 
Erp. Gen 8 (1841) 732. 
Plectropus Dumeril and Bibron, Erp. Gen. 8 (1841) 736. 
Holonectes Peters, Mon. Berl. Ale. (1863) 455. 
Calohyla Peters, Mon. Berl. Ak. (1863) 455. 
Callula Gunther, Kept. Brit. India (1864) 436; Cope, Journ. Acad. 
Nat. Sci. Philadelphia II 6 (1867) 192; Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. 
Brit. Mus. ed. 2 (1882) 167; Fauna Brit. India, Rept. (1890) 493. 
“Pupil erect. Tongue oblong, entire and free behind. Vo- 
merine teeth none; palatine bone forming an acute, sometimes 
toothed ridge across the palate. Two cutaneous, more or less 
distinctly denticulated ridges across the palate, in front of the 
oesophagus. Tympanum hidden. Fingers free; toes more or 
less webbed, exceptionally free, the tips more or less dilated. 
Outer metatarsals united. No precoracoids; no omosternum; 
sternum cartilaginous. Diapophyses of sacral vertebra mod- 
erately dilated. Terminal phalanges triangular or T-shaped. 
East Indies.” {Boulenger.) 
