254 UANID.E. 



line and a similar line along the upper surface of the thigh and 

 leg sometimes present; usually a )(- or )-(-shapecl marking 

 on the anterior part of the body ; sides of body and of thighs 

 with white spots on a brown ground, or between the meshes 

 of a brown network ; a dark brown lumbar spot may be present ; 

 limbs with dark cross-bands ; lower parts white, spotted or 

 speckled with brown, sometimes with a white median line from 

 chin to breast. A specimen from Gunong Tahan is blackish 

 brown on the sides and limbs, with the upper surface of the 

 head and a broad baud on the dorsal region of a very pale 

 brown. 



From snout to vent 35 millim. 



Larut Hills, bet\Aeeu 4000 and 4500 feet, Bukit Besar, 2500 to 

 3500 feet, and Gunong Tahan, Pahang, 3000 feet. The Bukit 

 Besar specimens were found among dead leaves, to which they 

 bore a remarkable resemblance, on the jungle floor. 



270. Ixalus castanomerus. 



Bouleng. Journ. Fed. Malay States Mus, i, p. 39, pi. iv, fig. 1 

 (1905). 



Head rather large ; snout obtusely pointed, as long as the 

 orbit ; canthus rostralis distinct ; loreal region concave ; nostril a 

 little nearer end of snout than eye ; iuterorbital space as broad as 

 the upper eyelid ; tympanum slightly distinct, f diameter of eye. 

 Fingers free, toes half-webbed ; disks of fingers larger than the 

 tympanum ; subarticular tubercles moderate ; a small inner meta- 

 tarsal tubercle. The tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the tip of 

 the snout. Upper parts tinely shagreened ; throat, bell}'-, and 

 lower surface of thighs granulate. Greyish white, witli a large 

 darker grey blotch covering the greater part of the back ami 

 extending T-shaped to between the eyes ; this blotch, which 

 is speckled with black, with sharp concave outline on each side ; 

 upper lip and loreal and temporal regions with dark marblings ; 

 limbs with oblique dark cross-bands ; sides of thighs and lower 

 surface of tibise chestnut-brown ; lower parts whitish, with brown 

 network. 



Total length 32 millim. 



Described from a single specimen from Bukit Kulu, Selangor, 

 3500 feet. 



271. Ixalus vermiculatus. 



BoiUeng. Ann. & Mag-. Nat. Hist. (7) vi, p. 187 (19C0) ; id. Journ. 

 Fed. Malay States Mus. i, p. 39, pi. iv, tig. 2 (1905), 



Head large ; snout rounded, as long as the orbit ; canthus 

 rostralis distinct ; loreal region concave ; nostril a little nearer 

 end of snout than eye ; interorbital space as broad as the upper 

 eyelid ; tympanum distinct, | the diameter of the eye. Fingers 



