NECT£S. 275 



the parotoids sometimes whitish, edged with black ; limbs with 

 dark cross-bands ; lower parts whitish, uniform or marbled with 

 brown. 



From snout to vent 65 millim. 



Malay Peninsula (Malacca, Perak Hills up to 800 feet), Sumatra, 

 Borneo. 



294. Bufo divergeiis. 



Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1871, p. 579; Bouleng. Cat. Batr. Ecaud. 

 p. 312, fio-. (1882) ; A. L. Butler, Jourii. Nut. Hist. Soo. Bombay, 

 XV, p. 396 (1904). 



Nearly allied to the preceding, but parietal bony ridge forming 

 an angle with the supraorbital, and hind limb longer, the tarso- 

 metatarsal articulation i-eaching the tip of the snout or beyond, 

 and the tibia measuring half length of head and body. A j'ellow 

 vertebral line sometimes present. 



Prom snout to vent 50 millim. 



Borneo, Natuna Islands, Selangor. 



Genus NECTES. 

 Cope, Nat. Hist. Rev. 1865, p. 103. 



Pupil horizontal. Tongue elliptical, entire and free behind. 

 Nostrils directed upwards. Tympanum distinct. Fingers free 

 or webbed at the base ; toes fully webbed, the tips not dilated. 

 Outer metatarsals united. No omosternum ; sternum cartilaginous, 

 ossified along the centre. 



Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. A single species has to be 

 dealt with in this fauna. 



295. Nectes subasper. 



Pseudobufo subasper, Tschudi, Class. Batr. p. 87 (1838). 



Nectes subasper, Cope, I.e.; Bouleug. Cat. Batr. Ecaud. p. 327, 



fig. (1882) ; S. Flower, P. Z. S. 1899, p. 916 ; A. L. Butler, 



Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Bombay, xv, p. 393 (1904). 

 Nectes pleurotania, Fischer, Arch. f. Naturg. li, i, p. 47 (1885) ; 



Van Kampeu, Zool. Jahrb., Syst. xxii, p. 711 (1905). 

 Nectes sumatranus, AVerner, Zool. Jahrb., Syst. xiii, p. 497, pi. xxxv, 



fig. 9 (1900). 



Head rather small ; snout prominent, obliquely truncate ; loreal 

 region nearly vertical ; nostrils small, valvular, close together on 

 the upper surface near the tip of the snout ; upper eyelid rather 

 narrow ; interorbital space broad ; tympanum more or less 

 distinct, | to | diameter of eye and close to latter. Fingers rather 

 slender, obtuse or pointed, free, first shorter than second ; toes 

 pointed, united to the very tips by a very broad and thick 

 membrane ; no subarticular tubercles ; two very indistinct, flat 

 metatarsal tubercles ; a rather indistinct tarsal fold. The tarso- 



