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Key to the Philippine species of Kaloula Gray. 
Toes slightly webbed at base; digits dilated, especially fingers; a blunt 
inner metatarsal tubercle K. baleata ( Muller) . 
a’. Toes one-third webbed, or more. 
K. Tips of fingers very small ; inner metatarsal tubercle very large, com- 
pressed K. picta (Bibron). 
Tips of fingers with very large disks; inner metatarsal tubercle 
moderately large K. conjuncta (Peters). 
Kaloula picta (Bibron). Plate 9, fig. 4. 
Plectropus pictus Bibron, in Eydoux and Souleyet, Voy. Bonite, Rept. 
pi. 9, fig. 2; Dumeril and Bibron, Erp. Gen. 8 (1841) 737; Stein- 
DACHNER, Verb. Zool. Bot. Ges. 'Wien 14 (1864) #57. 
Kaloula picta Gunther, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus. (1858) 123, part. 
Callula picta Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus. ed. 2 (1882) 168; 
Casto de Elera, Cat. Fauna Filipinas 1 (1896) 451. 
Description of species . — (Described from sixteen males and 
seventeen females; collected July 11, 1917, in a small pool near 
an electric light on a street of Manila, by E. H. Taylor.) Palatal 
Fig. 6. Kaloula picta (Bibron). a, side of head; 6, foot; e, hand. X 2. 
bones forming two transverse ridges across ridge of mouth im- 
mediately behind choanse, curved backward on inner ends ; snout 
very short and obtusely rounded, canthus rostralis rounded and 
not prominent; loreal region sloping very obliquely, not or very 
slightly concave; eye large, the supraocular region prominent; 
diameter of eye equals distance from eye to apex of snout; 
distance between nostrils greater than their distance from eye; 
nostrils halfway between eye and tip of snout; skin of back 
smooth or granular; granules when present scattered, or some- 
times in indistinct longitudinal rows; a minute median dorsal 
fold sometimes present; granules numerous on posterior aspect 
of thigh; skin of belly slightly wrinkled, sometimes granular 
posteriorly; tympanum not or scarcely visible; a distinct fold 
