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edged with whitish. Horns over eyes yellowish white. A cream- 

 edged brown mark from the eye through the tympanum. Throat, 

 lips, and lower surface greyish brown, mottled with cream colour. 

 Fore limbs mottled light and dark brown, a black patch on the inside 

 just above the hand. Hind limbs light brown, mottled and barred 

 with dark brown ; a black mark, edged above with cream colour, 

 on the anal region, extending a little way down the thighs. Lower 

 surface of hind feet black, edged on the outside with cream colour. 

 Pupil black, vertical, diamond shaped, edged with golden ; remainder 

 of iris brown mottled with coppery-golden specks. 



The triangular mark on the head of this species seems to be quite 

 constant ; it was more or less distinct in every specimen of my large series. 



Some of the brown specimens are marked with orange-red spots. In 

 a few the inside of the thighs was tinged with greenish blue. 



Nine of my specimens measure : 



1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 



Snout to vent ... 



Breadth of head at gape... 



Hind foot 



The smallest specimen obtained measured T inch, hind foot ^ 

 The Skeat Expedition found this species fairly common on Gunong Inas 

 from 3,000 feet upwards. 



Common as this frog is on the hills I have never seen it enter water 

 of its own accord. I have twice found on the hills clusters of about a 

 dozen very large frog's ova deposited under damp moss on tree trunks. 

 These eo-as were about half an inch in diameter and contained tadpoles 

 with the hind limbs and tail well developed. It seems to me most 

 likely that they belonged to Megalophrys lowgipes, and that the larval 

 existence of this frog is not aquatic. 



Order Apoda. 

 Family Cceciliidce. 



57. Icthtophis glutinosus, Linn. 



Epicrium glulinosum, Gunth., Kept. Brit. Ind., p. 441 (1864). 



Icthyophis glutinosus, Blgr., Cat. Batr. Grad., p. 89, pi. iv., fig. 2 

 (1882) ; Blgr., Fauna Brit. Ind., Rept., p. 515, fig. p. 516 ; S. Flower, 

 P. Z. S., 1806, p. 911, and P. Z. S., 1899, p. 911, 



