566 ENGYSTOMATIDyE. 



285. Phrynella pollicaris. 



Phrifnella indclira (iiou Bouleug.) fTuntli. Aim. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 



(5) XX, p. 813, pi. xvi, fig. B (1887). 

 Phrynella poUicans, Bouleng. P.Z. S. 1890, p. 37; A. L. Butler, 



Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Bombay, xv, p. 392 (1904). 



Distinguished from the preceding by a stouter habit, a shorter 

 head, shorter and thicker digits with much stronger and very 

 prominent subarticular tubercles, hardly half-webbed toes, and by 

 the presence, in the male, of a strong, tubercle-like rudiment of 

 pollex. Colour in life, according to Mr. Wray, dark olive-brown 

 above ; an oblique yellow line from the eye to the angle of the 

 moutli ; a pale olive-yellow mark across forehead, through the 

 eyes, and down the sides of the body to the thighs, this band 

 minutely spotted with dark brown, principally along the centre ; a 

 triauguhir dark-centred pale mark on the anal region ; limbs with 

 pale cross-bauds; throat of male dark brown, passing into yellow 

 ou the bi'east ; belly brown, spotted with whitish. Iris red-brown. 

 The colour is very changeable, passing to blackish or yellowish. 



From snout to vent 34: niillim. 



Inhabii. the hills of Perak, from 3000 feet upwards, living in 

 holes in trees which are so situated as to contain more or less 

 rain-water. They have a loud, flute-like, musical note, which 

 they utter at irregular intervals, principally during the night. 

 They blow themselves out with air, and look more like bladtlers 

 than anything else. When inflated they float on the surface .,of 

 the water, and will remain motionless for a long time with legs 

 and arms stretched out. 



This frog has also been found in Sumatra and Borneo. 



