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Gunong Inas, between Ivedab aud Perak. Also known from the 

 Natuua Islands. Mr. Butler observes that it croaks throughout 

 the daj, uttering a single very loud crow-like caw two or three 

 times in succession and then remaining silent for some minutes. 

 When tracked down the frog is almost always found under a dead 

 leaf, not in a hole of any sort. It is extremely active and hard 

 to catch, making off with long leaps through the undergrowth 

 directly it is disturbed. In croaking, the throat is gently 

 inflated. 



247. Eana macrodon. 



Diim. & Bibr. Erp. Geu. viii. p. 382 (1841) ; Blanf. P.Z.S. 1881, 

 p. 2-2(), pi. xxi, tip-. 4 ; Bouleng. Cat. Batr. Ecaiid. p. 24, pi. i, 

 tig. 4 (1882) ; id. Faun. Brit. Ind., Bept. p. 418 (1890) : S. Flower, 

 P:Z. S. 189ti, p. 898, pi. xlv, fig. 1, and 1899, p. 888; Laidlaw, 

 P.Z.S. 1900, p. 885: A. L. Butler. Jom-ii. Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 Bombay, xv, p. 19G (1903). 



Hana fusca Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xxiv, p. 719 (1855) ; 

 Stoliczka, op. cit. xlii, p. 115 (1873). 



Vomerine teeth in two long oblique series commencing from 

 the inner front edges of the choante ; lower jaw with two fang-like 

 bony prominences in front, sometimes scarcely developed. Head 

 large, occiput more or less swollen on the sides ; snout rather 

 pointed ; cauthus rostralis obtuse ; interorbital space usually 

 broader than the upper eyelid ; tympanum distinct, usually smaller 

 than the eye. I'ingers moderate, obtuse, first much longer than 

 second ; toes broadly webbed, sometimes to the tips, which are 

 feebly but distinctly dilated ; subarticular tubercles well developed; 

 inner metatarsal tubercle blunt, about 'j^ the length of the inner 

 toe ; no outer metatarsal tubercle. The tibio-tarsal articulation 

 reaches the eye or the tip of the snout. Skin smooth above, or 

 with small rounded warts ; upper eyelid tubercular ; a strong fold 

 above the tympanum ; young with a narrow glandular fold on 

 each side of the back. Olive-brown or green above, sometimes with 

 a broad orange vertebral line ; belly and lower surface of limbs pale 

 orange. The larger variety found in Singapore is bright bronze, 

 chocolate red, or pale yellowish or reddish, rarely olive-brown, 

 usually with a narrow pale yellow vertebral stripe, and pale yellow 

 beneath. Limbs more or less distinctly barred with dark brown, 

 sometimes with a pale yellow line along the inner side of the 

 tibia. Male without vocal sacs. 



Total length 230 millim. One of the largest frogs known. 



The tadpole, which measures only 37 millim., differs from that 

 of R, cyanoplihjctis in the upper caudal crest not extending forwards 

 to the base of the tail. Sides and lower edge of the lip bordered 

 with papillae, the upper edge with a series of horny teeth, followed 

 on each side by a short series ; 3 series of teeth on the lower lip, 

 first very short, weak and uninterrupted, second also uninter- 

 rupted, third longer and narrowly interrupted ; beak broadly 



