2i6 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vol. VI, 



No specimens of this species were taken by Mr. Brown in 

 Yunnan, but he has recently sent me what may be its larva from 

 the Hse-gna-Sang River, Panzi, Hsipaw, N. Shan States. The 

 tadpoles from Hsipaw closely resemble those of M . montana and 

 M. parva in structure but differ from the former in having the 

 ventral surface pale and from the latter in not being mottled or 

 spotted on the dorsal surface, which is of a uniform dark brown. 



I take this opportunity to put on record the occurrence of 

 tadpoles apparently identical with those of M. farva in a small 

 spring on the road to the plains from Naini Tal at an altitude of 

 about 5,000 feet. This record extends the known range of the fam- 

 ily Pelobatidae, which does not appear to have been taken hitherto 

 in the Western Himalayas. The specimens were taken by myself 

 in October, 1906. 



4. Bufo melanostictus , Schneider. 



Specimens from Tengyueh. The common toad of the greater 

 part of tropical Asia. 



5. Hyla chinensis, Giinther. 



Mr. Brown has given me the following note on the species : — 



" Hyla chinensis is very widely distributed in China, and has 

 been obtained from Southern China and the island of Formosa 

 by Swinhoe,' from Shanghai by the Szechenyi expedition,* 

 from Lung-tan-ssi in southern Shensi by Black welder,^ from 

 Tengyueh in Western Yunnan by Anderson * and from Tengyueh 

 and Pu-piao in the same province by myself. Giinther has pointed 

 out that this frog (which is extremelv similar to the common 

 European tree frog) appears to be peculiar to China. Anderson's 

 specimens were found covering a few bushes around Momien 

 (Tengyueh) in the month of July; whilst Blackwelder found a 

 small compan}^ in a shallow temporary pool of water on the grassy 

 side of a mountain ridge, 6,000 feet in elevation, in the month of 

 April. The chorus made by them was so loud as to be plainly 

 audible at a distance of 2,000 feet, 



The frog is common around Tengyueh and appears to spend 

 the cold months of the year on the ground, in secluded positions 

 under old tree-trunks, etc. I have found them, usually in small 

 groups of four or five, under stones in damp fields in December and 

 January. As the weather gets warmer they appear to become 

 more arboreal in their habits, taking then to bushes, trees and tall 



I Catalogue of Batyachia Salieiitia in British Museum, p. io8, 1858. 



■2 " Verzeichniss der Reptilien, Amphibien, und Fische," by Dr. Franz vStein- 

 dachner in Die wissenschaftlichen Ergebnisse der Reise des Grafen Bela Szechenyi 

 in Ost-Asien, 1877-1880, Band ii, p. 507. 



<j " Report on Zoology," by Eliot Blackwelder in Research in China, part 2, 

 p. 481. Washington, 1907. 



''■ Anatomical and Zoological Researches of Yunnan Expeditions, by Anderson, 

 1878, vol. i, p. 847 



