i 5 3 



spot on the inner side of the tibia, a little above the heel; 

 lower parts whitish, throat and belly with a few brown specks; 

 lower lip dark brown with white dots. From snout to vent 18 mm. 

 Habitat: Java (Pengalengan, 1200 m. ; Dieng, 2000 m. !); 

 Madura! 



7. Microhyla berdmorii (Blyth). 



Engys/omaQ) Berdmorei Blyth, Jrn. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, XXIV, 1855, P- 7 2 °- 

 Microhyla berdmorii Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., 1882, p. 166. 

 Microhyla berdmorii Werner, Zool. Jahrb., Syst., XIII, 1 900, p. 496. 

 Microhyla berdmorii Boulenger, Vert. Fauna Malay Penins., Rept. and Batr., 

 London, 1912, p. 263. 



Snout subacuminate, as long as or a little longer than the 

 orbit; interorbital space broader than the upper eyelid. Fingers 

 with very small, toes with rather large disks; first finger much 

 shorter than second; toes webbed to the tips; subarticular 

 tubercles very distinct; two very small metatarsal tubercles; 

 the heel reaches beyond the tip of the snout; tibia 2 / 3 length 

 of head and body. 



Skin smooth, or with a few scattered tubercles on back 

 and sides. 



Brownish, olive or pinkish above; a darker, light-edged, 

 hourglass-shaped, large spot on the head and anterior part of 

 the back, beginning between the eyes, sometimes continued 

 on the hind part of the back; black spots on the sides of 

 the limbs and occasionally on the flanks; a chevron-shaped 

 black marking on the anal region; lower surface whitish, throat 

 and breast clouded with brown. From snout to vent 45 mm. 



Male with an internal vocal sac. 



Tadpole. — Flower (Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1899, p. 903, 

 pi. LX, figs. 2,2a — c) has described tadpoles of a Microhyla sp. 

 from Penang, which Annandale (Mem. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, VI, 

 1917, p. 151) suggests to belong to M. berdmorii. Their de- 

 scription runs as follows : 



Length of body about i'/ 3 times its width; tail i 4 / 7 to i 5 / 

 the length of the body. Nostril nearer the tip of the snout 

 than the eye; eyes lateral, visible from above and from below, the 

 distance between them about 6 times that between the nostrils; 

 spiraculum median, the opening of its transparent sheath in 

 a vertical line drawn behind the body ; anal tube median. 

 Tail ending in a very fine pointed filament; the upper crest 



