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Show 1896.] BATRACHIANS OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 903 bright golden eyes. The largest specimens were 72 mm. in length from snout to vent. Colour (from life).-Above the most vivid green, exactly matching some of the water-weeds in ponds, but in other surroundings the back may change to a dull green or a yellowish brown : no specimens that I met with had " back and sides brown or reddish olive " as described by Cantor, from life ? A very dark brown stripe (generally darker at the edges) runs along each side of the head and body from the nose to the inset of the hind leg (in one specimen these side stripes were bright green, like the back, with black edges); this broad dark stripe is separated from the green back by a distinct white or yellowish-white stripe. The upper lip is yellow. The limbs are reddish-buff or yellowish-brown, paler beneath. The underneath of the head and body is immaculate, pure white. The iris is golden or golden-orange. Hab. Burma, Siam, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 11. RANA LABIALIS, Blgr. (Plate XLV. fig. 3.) Rana labialis, Boul. A n n . & Mag. N . H . 1887, (5) xix. p. 345, pl, x. fig. 1. This Frog was described from several specimens from Malacca given to the British Museum by M r . Hervey ; specimens have since been received there from Singapore from Mr. Eidley. I caught two specimens at Tanglin, Singapore, in a small pond on the 2nd of April, 1896; it appeared fairly numerous, and was associated with Rana erythrcea, which it resembles in colour, having the upper parts bright green and the lower immaculate white : this bright green in spirit becomes dull and dark. Hab. Malay Peninsula and Mentavi Islands. Tadpole.-I found tadpoles of this species in a small pond in the Botanical Gardens, Singapore, in the middle of April 1896. Length of body about once and a half its width, about two-thirds the length of the tail. Nostrils, as seen from above, nearer the end of the snout than the eyes. Eyes on the upper surface of the body, rather nearer the end of the snout than the spiraculum ; the distance between the eyes twice as great as that between the nostrils, and greater than the width of the mouth. Spiraculum on the left side, directed upwards and backwards, situated nearer the anus than the end of the snout, visible from above and from below. Anus opening on the right side, close to the lower edge of the subcaudal crest. Tail three to four times as long as deep, ends in a rounded point, intermediate in shape between those of Rana esculenta and Rana temporaria (Boul. P. Z. S. 1891, pl. xlv. figs. 1, 3); upper crest convex, slightly deeper than the lower, not extending on to the back; the depth of the muscular portion, at its base, about half or rather more of its greatest total depth.^ Beak edged with black. Sides and lower edge of the lip fringed with papillae, those on the lower edge being long and prominent; upper lip with four series of fine teeth, the outermost is uninter- |
