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Boulenger, however, the extremes are connected by inter- 

 mediate forms. 



At Batavia I found this species in brackish water near the 

 sea, where it seems to depose its spawn in the small cisterns 

 of rain water, contained in the axils of the leaves of the 

 Nipa-palm {Nipa fritticans). 



Tadpole. — The following tadpoles of Java (Djampang tengah 

 in the Preanger Regencies) seem to belong to this species'): 



Length of body once and a half its width; tail twice the 

 length of the body, about 3 1 /., times as long as deep. Nostril 

 as far from the tip of the snout as from the eye; eyes superior, 

 nearer to the tip of the snout than to the spiraculum, the distance 

 between them greater than that between the nostrils and than 

 the width of the mouth ; spiraculum sinistral, directed upwards 

 and backwards, visible from above and from below, much 

 nearer to the vent than to the tip of the snout; vent dextral, 

 near to the lower border of the tail. Tail pointed; upper crest 

 twice as deep as the lower one, extending to the base of the tail. 



Mouth ventral; lower lip and sides of upper one with pa- 

 pillae; along the lower lip they are arranged in three not 

 interrupted series; jaws narrowly edged with black; series of 

 teeth 1 / ' 1 \ the inner series of the lower lip hardly interrupted. 



Body and tail, including the crests, grey, darker marbled ; 

 belly colourless. 



Habitat: Simalur isl. ! ; Pulo Babi ! ; Nias! ; Mentawei islands 

 (Sipora) ; Engano isl. ; Sumatra (Deli ; Gunung Sahilan ! ; Fort de 

 Kock!; Sandaran Agung, 730 m., in Kurintji valley; Sungei 

 Kumbang, 1430 m., Kurintji peak; Tandjung Laut, Palem- 

 bang !) ; Borneo (Bongon) ; Java (Batavia ! ; Mt. Salak ; Tjibodas ! ; 

 Mt. Malabar, 1500 m. ! ; Tjisurupan). — Nicobars; Tenasserim; 

 Malay Peninsula. 



46. Rana signata (Gthr.). 



Polypedates signatus Giinther, Froc. Zool. Soc. London, 1872, p. 600, pi. XL, fig. C. 

 Rana signata Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., 1882, p. 71. 

 Rana obsoleta Mocquard, Nouv. Arch. Mus. d'Hist. nat., (3) II, 1890, p. 147. 

 Rana moellendorffi, Boettger, Zool. Anz., XVI, 1893, p. 363. 



I) Boulenger (I.e., 1920) describes tadpoles from Tenasserim, not certainly 

 belonging to this species, which are entirely different from those described by 

 me from Java. 



