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A. B. 



Maximum breadth of body . . 16 mm. 13 mm. 



Maximum depth of body . , 11 ,, 9 ,, 



Maximum depth of tail .. 10 ,, 12 ,, 



Habitat, etc. — Four tadpoles were taken b}' Capt. de Courc\" 

 near Upper Renging between the 5th and the loth of January, 

 1912. They were in a small pool of rain-water inside a log of 

 rotten wood and were accompanied by two adults, the types of 

 the species. There can be no doubt as to their identit}^, for the 

 largest tadpole has already begun to develop the characteristic 

 features of the adult. It has the hind limbs well developed. 



F. Undetermined Ranid Larva. (Plate iv, fig. 11). 



A number of large Ranid larvae were taken on the 9th and 

 1 6th of January in the Egar stream between Renging and Rotung 

 by ^Ir. Kemp and Capt. de Courc^'. Specimens of Rhacophonts 

 naso, Ixalus asper and /. tuherculatus were taken with one of them, 

 and also several Megalophrys tadpoles. Mr. Kemp suggests that 

 they may be the larvae of one of the adults captured on the same 

 occasion and they may well be that of a Rhacophorns. There is, 

 however, no direct evidence as to their parentage and none of 

 them have reached a stage in their metamorphosis that would 

 render it possible to throw any definite light on the subject. It 

 may be as well to describe them, however, as the^^ present certain 

 features of biological interest. There can be no doubt that they 

 are specificalh^ identical. 



Head and body convex above, flattened on the ventral surface, 

 ovoid, snout blunth^ rounded, projecting. 



Mouili ventral, ver^^ large with both lips highly developed and 

 the lower lip directed backwards and of unusual size ; upper lip not 

 fringed except at the corners : lower lip extending backwards for 

 some distance behind the last row of teeth and covered in this 

 region with relatively large rounded tubercles, also completeh- 

 fringed with smaller and more elongate tubercles ; dental formula 

 24-2: I: 5 + 5 8 i4-i: 2; the outermost row of teeth on each 

 side of the upper lip curving upwards and inwards to the margin 

 of the lip which it reaches near the middle without meeting its 

 fellow of the opposite side; beak stout, in two parts; the upper 

 part having a flattened, nearl};- triangular area in the middle of th^ 

 free margin ; this area separated from the rest of the upper beak 

 b}^ a minutely serrated ridge which is in continuity with the edge 

 of the beak on either side; the lower beak broadl}^ V-shaped, 

 minutel}" serrated on the margin. 



Nostril and eye by no means prominent, of moderate size ; 

 eyes lateral but near the dorsal surface, directed outwards and up- 

 wards; nostril nearer eye than tip of snout. 



Glands, etc. — No ver}^ definite glands can be detected but 

 there are numerous little pits arranged along the upper lip, in a 



