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Olive-brown to violet above, uniform or variously marked 

 with darker or lighter; a more or less distinct large triangular 

 dark spot between the eyes, the base forwards, and a dark 

 oblique bar below the eye; limbs with more or less distinct 

 dark cross-bars; lower parts almost white to black, spotted or 

 marbled with darker; a white tubercle on each side of the 

 breast. Length ioo mm. 



Male without vocal sac. 



According to Barbour „the specimens vary in color indivi- 

 dually, and by frequent changing they always show tints which 

 harmonize wonderfully with dead leaves, in which they lie 

 hidden during the daytime." 



Tadpole. — Length of body about twice its width; tail 

 more than twice as long as body, about 5 times as long as 

 deep, the total depth not much greater than the depth of its 

 muscular portion at the base. Nostril close to the eye ; eye 

 superior, much nearer tip of snout than spiraculum ; spiraculum 

 sinistral, equally distant from tip of snout and root of tail; 

 vent median. Tail pointed; crests low, of nearly equal depth, 

 the upper one extending as a low ridge to the root of the 

 tail. Mouth subterminal ; the lips form a funnel, which is broader 

 than long, without papillae, but with numerous, scattered, 

 small tubercles; jaws colourless. 



Dark-brown, sometimes lighter below; sides with pale 

 markings; tail with dark-brown spots in its posterior part. 

 Length 54 mm. 



The tadpoles live in pools or in shallow, swiftly running 

 water. The funnel-shaped, muscular lips enable it to float on 

 the surface. 



Habitat: Sumatra (Deli!; Fort de Kock; Batang Singga- 

 lang!); Borneo (Serawak) ; Java (Mt. Salak; Gadok; Mt. Pange- 

 ranggo, + 1400 m. ; Mt. Gedeh, 900 — 2000 m.!; Mt. Puntjak!; 

 Sukabumi ! ; Tjiandjur; Djampang!; Mt. Malabar, 1500 m. ! ; 

 Mt. Papandajan, 1500 m.; Mt. Ungaran, 1600 m. ! ; Nongko- 

 djadjar, 1200 m.!; Tosari, 1800 m.!). — Siam ; Malay Peninsula, 

 300 — 600 m.; Philippines? 



3. Megalophrys nasuta (Schlg.). 



Ceratophryne nasuta Schlegel, Handl. Dierk., Breda, 1858, II, p. 57, pi. IV, fig. 72. 

 Megalophrys cliysii Edeling, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned.-Indie, XXVII, 1864, p. 265, 

 with plate, 



