Uniform purplish black; tentacles white; anal region and 

 tip of tail pale pinkish. Length 500 mm. 



Other characters as in /. glutinosus. 



Habitat: Sumatra (Indrapura ; Palembang) ; Borneo (Mt. 

 Dulit; Singkawang) ; Java. — India to Malay Peninsula (up to 

 1200 m.) and Singapore; Philippines 1 ), inch Pelawan ? 2 ). 



II. Order ANURA. 



( Ecaudata, Salientia). 



Four well-developed limbs; no tail. Skin naked. Eyes nor- 

 mally developed. No tentacles. No copulatory organ. 



Terrestrial or aquatic. Oviparous^); the eggs are usually 

 deposited in the water, rarely on the land, in moist surroundings. 

 They are enveloped and usually united in clumps or strings 

 by a gelatinous mass. When they are rich of yolk the young 

 are sometimes hatched in the perfect lung-breathing stage ; 

 usually however there is an aquatic larval stage. The larvae 

 (tadpoles) are tailed and breath by external, afterwards internal 

 gills; they live in fresh, rarely in brackish water. 



Synopsis of the Families and Subfamilies. 



A. Epicoracoid cartilages overlapping each other 

 {Arciferci). 



I. Upper jaw toothed (in the Indo-Australian 



genera). 



1 . Terminal phalanges of digits not claw-shaped. 



a. Diapophyses of sacral vertebra strongly • 

 dilated I. Pclobatidae p. 5. 



b. Diapophyses of sacral vertebra not or 



slightly dilated 2. Cystignathidae p. 18. 



2. Terminal phalanges of digits claw-shaped. 



Diapophyses of sacral vertebra dilated. . . 3. Hylidae p. 22. 

 II. Both jaws toothless. Diapophyses of sacral 



vertebra dilated 4. Bufonidae p. 65. 



B. Epicoracoid cartilages firmly united in the median 

 line [Firmisternid). 



1) According to De Elera, Catalogo Sist. de toda la Fauna de Filipinas, I, 



1895, P- 457- 



2) „/. weberi sp. nov.", Taylor. 



3) With very few exceptions. 



