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Show 1899.] BATRACHIANS O F T H E M A L A Y PENINSULA A N D SIAM. 899 very noticeable one:-Upper parts pale cream-colour, a black line along each side starting from behind the eyes, some black spots on posterior part of back, and brown cross-bands on limbs. Newly transformed young in Bangkok (June) were coloured as follows :-Above pale olive-brown, with on each side a black line from the snout passing through the eye to the inset of the hind leg ; a black spot on each supraorbital region prolonged backwards to the neck as a black line, these lines converge but do not meet; on the shoulders are two diverging black lines ; the remainder of the back is spotted with black ; the hind limbs are transversely banded with dark brown ; the lower surfaces are white. Size. The largest of a series of adults examined on Penang Hill in March 1898 measured :-d- Snout to vent 51 mm.; hind leg 77 ; testicles, length 6 m m . 2 • Snout to vent 73 mm.; hind leg 107. Largest eggs in ovaries 2 m m . in diameter. Distribution. Sikhim, Assam, Burma, Southern China, Hongkong, Formosa, Cambodia, Cochinchina, Siam, Malay Peninsula, Java, Sumba, Borneo, Celebes, Philippines. Tadpoles. Specimens from Bangkok agreed with the description (P. Z. S. 1896, p. 906, pl. xliv. fig. 2), except for some differences in the mouth and in colour, which were as follows:- Mouth. Beak broadly edged with black, lower mandible finely serrated along the cutting-edge; sides and lower edge of the lip bordered with small, short, round papillae, except in the centre of the lower lip, where there is a space devoid of papillae. Upper lip withj*M*e series of fine teeth, the uppermost uninterrupted, the second narrowly interrupted, the remainder broadly so, the fifth series is very short; lower lip with three long series of teeth, third narrowly interrupted, the other two uninterrupted. Colour (in life). Above yellowish brown, mottled darker and lighter; below white, purplish grey on the throat; muscular portion of tail very pale brown, crests colourless and transparent; a very noticeable light yellow spot on the point of the snout; a dark brown line from corner of mouth to eye. Iris yellow. A specimen from the Waterfall Gardens, Penang, agreed with these in having the 3rd series of teeth in the lower lip narrowly interrupted in the middle, but differed from them and from those originally described from Singapore in having at each of the upper corners of the mouth four long fine papillae. 22. RHACOPHORUS NIGROPALMATUS (Blgr.). Rhacophorus nigropalmatus, Blgr. Ann. & Mag. N . H . (6) xvi. p. 170 (1895). In the Museum at Taiping is a single specimen of a large frog caught in Upper Perak by Mr. L. Wray (jun.); by his kind permission I was allowed to examine it. Description. Vomerine teeth in a straight line between the front edges of the choanae. Snout rounded. Canthus rostralis distinct. Loreal region decidedly concave. Nostril nearer the tip of the snout than the eye. Interorbital space broader than the upper eyelid. Tympanum half the width of the eye. Fingers and toes |
