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144 DISCOGLOSSIDJ:.
Grey, olive, or rarely bright grass-green above, with
distant symmetrical blackish or dark bottle-green
spots disposed on the larger warts. Usually, in Grerman
specimens, a pair of pale green or bright green roundish
spots between the shoulders. Austrian specimens
often lack the green colour, and Mehely found it in
two specimens only, out of fifty collected in Hungary.
A dark streak from the end of the snout to the eye

upper lip with dark vertical bars

limbs, including
the digits, with more or less regular dark cross-bars.
Lower parts bluish-black, usually with white dots,
and more or less numerous, insuliform or vermicular,
bright orange to vermilion markings, the most con-
stant of which are a pair of pectoral spots and a pair
of lumbar cross-bars

the latter sometimes nearlv
continuous, like a belt across the praepubic region

the
spots sometimes absent on the throat and belly, which
then are entirely black, dotted with white

a small
white spot sometimes present on the chin. A large
bright spot on the inner side of the palmar, and
another on the inner side of the plantar surface;
these spots are not confluent with those on the
forearm and tarsus, and do not extend to the tip of
the inner digit

one specimen, from Vienna, is excep-
tional in having the plantar and tarsal spots confluent
on the right side. The tips of all the digits black or
yellowish-white, never bright orange or red.
Iris golden, much sprinkled over with brown, or
bronzy brown with a golden circle round the pupil

the golden border broader above than below and at
the sides

the pupil round with a lower angle, or sub-
triangular, rarely notched above as in the following
species, — in fact, perfectly similar to that oiDiscoglossus,
Male distinguished from the female by a usually
somewhat shorter body, a rather broader head,
stronger fore limbs, and especially by the presence of
a pair of internal vocal sacs formed by the skin of the
floor of the mouth, which is loose and plicate, and
projects through a slit dividing the