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tarsal articulation reaching far beyond the tip of the snout ; tibia 

 two-thirds length of head and body. Skin, smooth. Brown above, 

 with symmetrical blackish light-edged markings, a large one on 

 the back being produced to between the eyes, where it expands 

 into a transverse bar ; side, from the shoulder to the lumbar 

 region, black, with sharply defined upper outline ; an oblique whitish 

 streak from the eye to the bas3 of the fore limb ; a blackish 

 spot at the knee, a dark cross-bar on the thigh, another on the femur, 

 and a third on the tarsus ; lower parts closely marbled with dark 

 brown. 



" From snout to vent 15 miilim. 

 " This snecies connects M. achat ina with M. berdmor" 



38. MlCROHYLA BERDMOP.II, Blyth. 



Microhyla berdmorii, Blgr., Cat. Batr. Sal., p. 166 ; S. Flower, 

 P. Z. S., 1896, p. 908, and P. Z. S., 1899, p. 90S - Laidlaw, P. Z. S., 

 1909, p. 888. 



A Microhyla recently sent home from Perak by Mr. Wray was 

 identified by Mr. Boulenger as this species, and one was obtained by 

 the Skeat Expedition from Bclimbing, Legeh, Previously it was 

 known from the Peninsula only by a specimen obtained by Davison at 

 Malacca. Flower describes it as " nocturnal, frequenting the neigh- 

 bourhood of water, an extraordinarily good jumper." 



Elsewhere it ocsurs in Burma, Siam, and Cambodia. 



39. Callula pulchra, Gray. 



Callula pulchraj Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal., p. 170 (fig.); S. S 

 Flower, P. Z. S., 1890, p. 908, and 1899, p. 906 ; Laidlaw, P. Z. S. 

 1900., p. 888. 



This singular rotund batrachian seems to be of very local distribu- 

 tion in the Peninsula, being apparently absent from many localities 

 quite suited to its habits. Where it does occur it is usually exceed- 

 ingly abundant. Hervey obtained it at Malacca ; Flower found it 

 plentiful in Singapore, but saw nothing of it in Penang ; in Selangor 

 it is very common in places ; in Larut district in Perak 1 found it 

 apparently absent, and I failed to find it on a journey through Pahang 

 from Selangor to Lipis and down the Pahang river to the coast. 

 Laidlaw says they are very plentiful at Khota Baru, Kelantan, extend- 

 ing down the East Ccast to Tringganu, where, however, they became 

 much scarcer than in Kelantan. 



