. Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia s. Ecaudata in the collection of the British museum. Amphibians. Lower surface of foot. toes half--webbed ; tips of fingers and toes dilated inta small disks ; subarticular tubercles well developed; a single, small, oval, inner metatarsal tubercle. The hind limb being carried forwards along the body, the tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the tip of the snout. Skin of the back with short longitudinal glandular folds; lower surfaces smooth. Brown above; loreal and temporal regions blackish ; a dark cross band between the eyes ; limbs cross-barred ; throat a
. Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia s. Ecaudata in the collection of the British museum. Amphibians. Lower surface of foot. toes half--webbed ; tips of fingers and toes dilated inta small disks ; subarticular tubercles well developed; a single, small, oval, inner metatarsal tubercle. The hind limb being carried forwards along the body, the tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the tip of the snout. Skin of the back with short longitudinal glandular folds; lower surfaces smooth. Brown above; loreal and temporal regions blackish ; a dark cross band between the eyes ; limbs cross-barred ; throat and breast mottled with brown. Male without vocal sac. From snout to vent 36 miUim. This species is intermediate between JR. heddomii and R.'lepto- dactyla. It differs from both, by the much larger tympanum; from the former, by the toes, which are only half webbed; from the latter, by the length of the first finger, which is superior to that of the second, and by the more extensive web between the toes. Malabar. a-b. S 2 • Malabar. Col. Beddome [0.]. 76. Rana leptodactyla. Polypedates brevipalmatus, Giinth. Proc. Zool. iSoc. 1875, d. Lower surface of foot. Vomerine teeth in two slightly oblique oval groups just behind the level of the hinder edge of the choanse. Tongue with a free, pointed, conical papilla in the middle. Head moderate, rather depressed; snout blunt, with moderate canthus rostralis; inter- orbital space as broad as, or rather narrower than, the upper eyelid ; tympanum distinct, half the width of the eye. Fingers moderate, first not extending as far as second; toes one-third webbed ; tips of fingers and toes dilated into small disks ; mbarticular tubercles well developed; a small, oval, inner metatarsal tubercle. The hind. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (
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