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Show 886 MR. STANLEY S. FLOWER ON THE [Nov. 14, Order ECAUDATA. Family RANIDCE. ]. OXYGLOSSUS LIMA (Gravenh.). Oxyglossus lima, Blgr. Cat. Batr. Sal. p. 5. " Kato' limpong " of the Malays of Kedah. Localities. In the P. Z. S. 1896, p. 897,1 wrote :-"This species is said to occur in the Malay Peninsula, but I bave not been able to find it recorded south of Tenasserim, though it occurs again in Java " ; but since then, in June 1898, I found it numerous near Alor Star and at Jenan, in the State of Kedah, Malay Peninsula. M . Mouhot obtained specimens in Siam and Cambodia. I obtained specimens at the following places in Siam:-one Bangkok (July), many Sapatoom (August), many Ayuthia (December), one a few miles north of Ayuthia (February), many Pakpreo (June), and one Bawtong Kabin (March). Habits. This is a thoroughly aquatic frog, to be found in small ponds. Colour (in life). Above olive-brown (Kabin specimen dark, Pakpreo ones light), lighter and greener on limbs, with or without a pale yellow vertebral line ; beneath yellow, more or less handsomely marked with dark olive-brown, including a narrow line along middle of abdomen; back of thigh conspicuously marked with two yellow lines or a broad black one. Iris : narrow gold line surrounding the black diamond-shaped pupil, remainder brown. A particularly handsome individual from Bangkok was coloured in life :-Above olive-brown mottled with dark brown, a broad black-edged vertebral line grass-green anteriorly, shading to olive-green posteriorly ; beneath pale yellow, a pair of very distinct black lines from the chin to the breast (the tubercles on these lines form small yellow spots), a black line beneath each arm, three longitudinal irregular dark brown lines on each side of the body, an L-shaped black line on each side of the base of the thighs, a very broad black line along the hinder side of the thigh, above it being two narrow parallel ones, the interspaces forming pale yellow lines. The eyes of 0. lima in life are very prominent and look upwards and outwards. Size. The largest specimens measures snout to vent 33 m m . Distribution. Lower Bengal, Burma, Southern China, Siam, Cambodia, Cochin China, Malay Peninsula, Java. 2. OXYGLOSSUS LCEVIS Giinther. Oxyglossus Levis, Blgr. Cat. Batr. Sal. p. 6 ; Blgr. P. Z. S. 1897, p. 228 (tadpole). In the Museum at Taiping there are specimens from swamps |
