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the species as "Java, Sumatra, Dinagat Island, Malay Peninsula 

 (possibly)." 



I think the species should have a place on our list. Mr. Wray aud 

 I recently compared the Taiping specimen with the description in the 

 Catalogue, with which it agrees well, aud there is no doubt as to the 

 locality, there being no old specimens from outside the Peninsula in 

 the stores of the Taiping Museum. 



Since writing the above the capture of five specimens by the Skeat 

 Expedition, from Bukit Besar, Jalor, and Gunong Iuas has removed 

 all doubt of this frog's occurrence in the Peninsula. 

 56. Megalophkys longipes, Blgr. 



Megalophrys longipes, Bouleng. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 850, PI. Iv. ; Giin- 

 ther, A. and M. N. H., 1887 (5), XX., p. 816 ; S. Flower, P. Z. S., 

 1896, p. 913 ; Laidlaw, P. Z. S., 1900, p. 890. 



Flower writes of this species : " Mr. Wray obtained three specimens 

 from the mountains of Perak, at from 3,300 to 4,400 feet above the sea. 

 It is apparently rare and local." 



Local it seems to be, but so from being rare it is the commonest frog 

 on the hills above 3,000 feet. 



During a recent stay of a month on the Larut Hills, Perak, I ob- 

 tained no less than 56 specimens, and could have got 100 had I wished. 

 I found them from 3,000 to 4,500 feet altitude, commonest, at the 

 higher elevation, but disappearing suddenly above that altitude. They 

 appear to be entirely nocturnal in their habits, and in the day time 

 were always found under logs, rocks or in holes in banks, and, in 

 densely shaded spots, among dead leaves. Excluding toads they are 

 the easiest Batrachian to capture I have known. They appear to be quite 

 bewildered by the sunlight, and when disturbed give one jump into 

 the open and make no attempt to escape. When seized in the hand 

 they frequently open their mouths widely for some seconds — a very 

 unfroglike proceeding ! 



In colour they vary exceedingly, from dark olive brown to dark or 

 light orange-red, some being of exactly the same tint as the red 

 variety of Rana macrodon figured by Flower, P. Z. S., 1896, PI. XLV. 

 The following description of a brown one is from life : General colour 

 dark olive brown above, a broad isosceles-triangle mark on the head, 

 the base of the triangle lying between the horns over the eyes, the 

 apex pointing backwards. This triangle is dark brown, narrowly 



