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line; hinder surface of thighs yellow, marbled with dark brown ; 

 hind limbs with irregular dark cross-bars; lips with dark 

 vertical bars ; white below ; the tf with a M-shaped black spot 

 on the throat. From snout to vent 65 mm. 



Male with two external vocal sacs. 



Omosternum forked at the base. Terminal phalanges obtu- 

 sely pointed. 



Tadpole. — Length of body about once and a half its 

 width; tail less than twice the length of the body, about 4 

 times as long as deep. Nostril about equally distant from eye 

 and tip of snout; eyes superior, in the middle between tip 

 of snout and spiraculum, the distance between them about 

 2'/ 2 times that between the nostrils and larger than the width 

 of the mouth; spiraculum sinistral, directed upwards and back- 

 wards, visible from above and from below, as far from tip of 

 snout as from base of tail; vent dextral, anal tube long, pro- 

 jecting beyond lower border of crest of tail. Tail pointed, 

 the inferior crest low, the upper one about twice as high and 

 reaching to the base of the tail. 



Mouth ventral, small; sides of upper lip bordered with one, 

 lower lip (except a small portion in the middle, along the 

 lower series of teeth) with two rows of papillae; jaws narrowly 

 edged with black; series of teeth 1 '1/3, the inner series of 

 the upper lip broadly interrupted, the outer series of the lower 

 lip much shorter than the two other ones, which are nearly 

 equal in length. 



Back and sides dark grey; tail brown, with colourless crests ; 

 the back, sides and tail may be spotted or finely mottled with 

 dark brown; posterior half of tail often dark grey; white beneath. 

 Length 42 mm. 



Habitat: Pulo Weh ! ; Sumatra (Atjeh!; Gajo countries!; 

 Upper and Lower Langkat ; Medan ! ; Paneh ! ; Brastagi, Karo 

 Highland, 1400 m. ! ; Batak mts., 300—1000 m. ! ; Lauttador; 

 Mt. Simbolon ; Tebing Tinggi ! ; Talu ; Gunung Sahilan ; Matur ! ; 

 Cleft of Arau!; Pajakombo ! ; Baso ! ; Ajer Teganang!; 

 Telago apabilo!; Lembok; Kalung!; Indragiri ; Kepahiang; 

 Rawas riv. ; Hari leko riv. !); Banka ! ; Natuna islands (Bun- 

 guran); Borneo (N. -Borneo; Kutjing ; Singkawang; Bengkajang; 

 Mandor); Java (Batavia!; Krawang!; Buitenzorg ! ; Gadok; near 

 Tjibodas!, 1400—2000 m. ; Pasirdatar, 900 m. ! ; Sukabumi!; 

 Mt. Malabar, 1500 m. ! ; Tjilatjap!; Babakan ! ; Wonosobo!; 



