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Habit slender. Snout obliquely truncate; loreal region ver- 

 tical; interorbital space broader than the upper eyelid; tym- 

 panum distinct, '/^ to ^/^ the diameter of the eye (in young 

 specimens smaller). Fore limb as long as the distance between 

 tympanum and vent; tips of fingers and toes dilated, truncate; 

 fingers much depressed, the first rudimentary, hardly half as 

 long as the second ; fingers '/a webbed, the web extending 

 as a margin to the tips; web between the toes extending to 

 the tips, but deeply emarginate; subarticular tubercles small; 

 two flat metatarsal tubercles ; no tarsal fold ; the heel reaches 

 between the eye and the tip of the snout, or not so far, the 

 tarso-metatarsal articulation reaches the tip of the snout, 

 or beyond. 



Skin with small tubercles. 



Olive-brown above, spotted with yellow and blackish; lower 

 parts yellowish, throat and belly spotted with brown and black- 

 ish. From snout to vent 30 mm. 



Habitat: Mentawei islands (Sipora); Sumatra (Sandaran 

 Agung, 745 m., in Kurintji valley); Natuna islands (Serasan); 

 Borneo (Baram riv. ; Matan). — Malay Peninsula; Singapore; 

 Philippines '). 



5. Nectophryne macrotis Blgr. 



Nectophryne macrotis Boulenger, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (6) XVI, 1895, p. 171. 

 Nectophryne macrotis Roux, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1906, I, p. 63, pi. II, fig. 3. 



Head small, a little longer than broad; snout prominent, 

 obliquely truncate, short; canthus rostralis strong; loreal region 

 vertical; interorbital space broader than the upper eyelid; 

 tympanum very distinct, as large as and close to the eye. 

 Fore limb as long as the distance between the eye and the 

 vent; fingers dilated and truncate at the end; tips of toes 

 less strongly dilated ; first finger very short, half as long as 

 second; fingers webbed at the base; toes ^/^ webbed; a flat 

 inner metatarsal tubercle ; the heel reaches the posterior border 

 of the eye. 



Above with scattered small warts, irregular in size; beneath 

 granulate. 



Olive above, spotted with black; some of the warts red; 



i) According to De Eleia, Catalogo Sist. de toda la Fauna de Filipinas, I, 

 1895, p. 451. 



