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Show 1899.] BATRACHIANS OF THE MALAY PENINSULA AND SIAM. 913 Colour (in life). General colour varies from yellowish brown, irregularly darker on upper surface, to rich reddish brown and blackish. Iris: a narrow golden line round pupil, remainder golden, very finely speckled and vermiculated with very dark bronze. Size. Largest Penang specimen I have measured was, snout to vent 170 mm. (6| inches). Distribution. Tenasserim, Mergui, Malay Peninsula, Java, Borneo. N.B.-BUFO GALEATUS Giinther. Bufo galeatus, Blgr. Cat. Batr. Sal. p. 314. The type specimen, a female, was obtained by M. Mouhot in Cambodia, so the species may be eventually found in Siam. Family PELOBATIDCE. 44. LEPTOBRACHIUM HASSELTI Tschudi. Leptobrachium hasseltii, Blgr. Cat. Batr. Sal. p. 441; S. Flower, P. Z. S. 1896, p. 913; Hanitsch, Rep. Raffles Libr. & Mus. 1897, p. 8. Distribution. Burma, Malay Peninsula, Java. 45. MEGALOPHRYS NASUTA (Schleg.). Megalophrgs montana var., Cantor, p. 140 ; part., Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 413. Megalophrys nasuta, Blgr. Cat. Batr. Sal. p. 443; S. Flower, P. Z. S. 1896, p. 913. " Katah bertandu" of the Malays of Perak, according to L. Wray, jun. Cantor obtained two specimens on the Pentland Hills, Penang, at an elevation of about 1800 feet. When in Penang during March and April 1898, I obtained one adult specimen from a valley; and two adults, two small specimens, and many recently transformed young from the hills at elevations of from 1800 to 2000 feet. This species is also found in Perak (specimens in British and local Museums); in Selangor (one specimen in local Museum, caught about 15 miles from Kuala Lumpor, 1898); Malacca (Raffles Museum) ; Johore (Raffles Mus.); and on Bukit Timah, Singapore (Raffles Mus.). Colour. Cantor gives a good description of this species, but says " above, pale greyish-brown; " in four specimens which I observed alive for several days I found they were capable of altering their colour to a great extent-olive-brown, red-bronze, yellowish bronze or chocolate, but in every case the colours and shades resembled those seen in dead leaves ; the rich dark-brown |