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Male with an internal vocal sac. 



Tadpole. — Length of body I '/ 2 to i 2 / 3 times its width; 

 tail 2'/ 2 times as long as body, 4 to 5 times as long as deep. 

 Nostril nearer to the eye than to the tip of the snout; eyes supe- 

 rior, nearer to the end of the snout than to the spiraculum, the 

 distance between them twice that between the nostrils ; spira- 

 culum sinistral, directed upwards and backwards, equally distant 

 from the eye and the posterior extremity of the body; vent 

 median. Tail acutely pointed, the crests low. 



Mouth small, with a horseshoe-shaped lip without horny 

 teeth, the closed mouth appearing as a vertical slit; jaws black. 



Olive above, white beneath ; tail speckled with dark brown. 

 Length 51 mm. 



Habitat 1 ): Simalur!; Mentawei islands (Sipora); Sumatra 

 (Laut tador; Gunung Sahilan ! ; Lahat); Borneo (Mt. Dulit; Ba- 

 ram riv. ; Seberuang riv.); Flores; Celebes (S. -Celebes, 600 m.; 

 Luwu; Takalekadjo mts., 1 100 m. ; Lembongpangi, 520 m. ; 

 Matinang mts., + 250 m.; Mongondou ! ; Minahasa; Kakas, 

 Tondano lake; Mt. Masarang). — Burma; Siam ; Malay Penin- 

 sula; Philippines. 



2. Oxyglossus lima (Kuhl). 



Rana lima (Kuhl), Gravenhorst, Deliciae Mus. Zool. Vratislav., Fasc. I, Lipsiae, 



1829, p. 41. 

 Oxyglossus lima Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., 1882, p. 5. 

 Oxyglossus lima Flower, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1899, p. 886. 

 Oxyglossus lima v. Kampen, Weber's Zool. Ergebn., Leiden, IV, 1907, p. 384, 



pi. XVI, fig. 1 (tadpole). 

 Oxyglossus lima v. Kampen, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. -Indie, LXIX, 1909, p. 44, 



pi. II, fig. 9 (tadpole). 

 Oxyglossus lima Boulenger, Vert. Fauna Malay Penins., Rept. and Batr., London, 



1912, p. 225, with figs. 

 Oxyglossus lima Smith, Jrn. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, II, 1917, p. 173 (tadpole; with figs.). 



Tongue oblong, pointed behind. Head broader than long; 

 snout rounded or obtusely pointed, shorter than the upper 

 eyelid, as deep as long; no canthus rostralis; loreal region 

 oblique, nearly flat; nostril equidistant from eye and tip of 

 snout; interorbital space narrower than the upper eyelid ; tym- 

 panum hidden. Fingers and toes acutely pointed; first finger 



1) The Museum of Leiden possesses two specimens labelled „Java (Boie and 

 Macklot leg.)". As, however, the species since never has been found in Java, 

 this locality is probably erroneous. 



