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Show 1896.] BATRACHIANS OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 907 tail or rather less. Nostrils nearer the end of the snout than the eyes. A strongly-marked lachrymal gland from eye to nostril. Eyes ou the side of the head, nearer the spiraculum than the end of the snout; the distance between the eyes more than twice as great as that between the nostrils, and much greater than the width of the mouth. Spiraculum on the left side, directed backwards and upwards, nearer the anus than the end of the snout, visible from above and from below. Anus opening on the right side, halfway between the lower edge of the subcaudal crest and the muscular portion of the tail. Tail rather more than three times as long as deep, very acutely pointed, upper crest convex, about the same depth as the lower, or in some specimens very markedly shallower; tbe upper crest does not extend on to the back ; tbe depth of the muscular portion at its base rather more than half the greatest total length. Beak black. Sides and lower edge of the lip bordered wdth papillae, except in the centre of the lower lip, where there is a small semicircular notch, devoid of papillae. Upper lip wdth four series of fine teeth, the uppermost uninterrupted, the second narrowly interrupted, and the third and fourth broadly so ; lower lip with three long uninterrupted series of teeth. Colour. Above dark brown, irregularly mottled with darker; beneath buff; the sides and tail buff, mottled with brown. These tadpoles, from different localities, vary a good deal in colour, some being dark brown above, others a light dirty buff colour. Size. These tadpoles vary even more in size than in colour; some exceptionally fine ones were 46 m m . in total length. Length of body 15-5 mm., length of tail 31, depth of tail 10. The recently transformed young measure from 14 to 18 m m . from snout to vent. 15. RHACOPHORUS LEPROSUS, Schl. Polypedates leprosus, Giinther, Ann. & Mag. N . H . (5) xx. 1887, p. 315, pl. xvi. figs. A, a, a. Rhacophorus leprosus, Boul. P. Z. S. 1890, p. 284. Mr. Wray obtained this species at an elevation of 4000 ft. on the hills of Larut, Perak. H e says of it:-" This species lives in holes in trees, and the note produced by it is not so loud as that of Phrynella, and has a more metallic ring in it." Hab. Malay Peninsula ; Sumatra. NOTE.-Rhacophorus dennysl was described by Mr. Blanford (P. Z. S. 1881, p. 224, pl. xxi. fig. 3 ) ; the specimen was in a collection sent from Singapore by Dr. Dennys, and was said to have come from China. Since then another specimen of this species has been received at the British Museum from Foochow; so that there can be little doubt that the type specimen was really from China, and that this species should not be included in the fauna of Malaya. |