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the same months of this year (1900) I found it plentiful round the small 

 water holes in the Hill Gardens, Larut. I obtained 22 specimens. 

 Subsequently some coolies, who were looking out for frogs for me, 

 inspired by visions of unlimited small change (calculating on the rate 

 of 10 cts. per frog, which I generally paid for specimens of any use to 

 me), took the trouble to drain off a small pond into which a number 

 of these frogs had been seen to dive and bagged half a kerosine tin 

 full of them, over a hundred. These I looked over and released. 



Flower's description of this species is, as usual, exceedingly accurate, 

 but I do not think the colouring on the back is in any way dependent 

 on age. Flower says : A Top of head and back rich dark chocolate 

 brown (in very small frogs the back is a very bright red, more 

 vermilion than chocolate)." I found this bright red quite common 

 among some of the largest I examined, while many of the smallest 

 were of the dark chocolate tint. 



In one fine adult the marbling on the thighs was of the samo rich 

 chocolate red as the back. Four average sized adults measure from 

 snout to vent 2J, If £, 2^, \\% inches. 



A tadpole with the fore-limbs still undeveloped measured from 

 snout to vent l 5 3 s , tail 1|^, hind limbs 1| inch in length. 



16. Rana glandulosa, Blgr. 



Rana glandulosa, Blgr., Cat. Batr. Sal., p. 73, pi. vii ; S. Flower, 

 P. Z. S., 1896, p. 905 ; P. Z. S. 1899, p. 897 ; Laidlaw, P. Z. S., 

 1900, p. 887. 



Known from Perak, Malacca, and Singapore in the Malay Peninsula. 

 Elsewhere from Borneo and Palawan. 



I have obtained examples in Selangor, but it is not common. There 

 was one small specimen in the museum when I took up the curatorship 

 in 1898. In March 1899, I captured a fine pair under a large heap 

 of tiles in a compound in Kuala Lumpur, and took another in one of the 

 Batu Caves in total darkness. I have seen it once or twice in swamps 

 lying in tracts of " lalang " grass. 



The eye of this frog is a conspicuous fiery red. 



17. Bana larutensis, Blgr. 



Rana larutensis, Blgr., Ann. and Mag. N. H. (7), iii, 1899, p. 273, 

 pi. xi, fig. 1 ; Flower, P. Z. S., 1899, p. 898 ; Laidlaw,. P. Z. S., 

 1900, p. 886. 



These frogs are extremely plentiful in rocky streams on the Larut 

 Hills (where the species was discovered by Flower in 1898) but are 



