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Upper parts with small warts of unequal size; no distinct 

 parotoids; lower parts granulate. 



Dark brown above, with yellowish spots or symmetrical 

 markings, forming oblique bars across the limbs; brownish 

 beneath, speckled with yellow, or marbled with brown; posterior 

 part of belly and inner side of thighs rose-coloured in life. 

 From snout to vent 50 mm. 



Male with a large external gular vocal sac. 



Tadpole. — Length of body from rather more than once 

 and a half to rather less than once and two thirds its width, 

 nearly half the length of the tail; tail 6 times as long as 

 deep; nostrils much nearer the eyes than the end of the snout ; 

 eyes on the upper surface, the distance between them rather 

 more than once and a half that between the nostrils, and 

 little more than half the width of the mouth ; spiraculum 

 sinistral, directed upwards and backwards, rather nearer the 

 eye than the vent; anal opening median. Tail acutely pointed, 

 crests of equal depth or the lower one slightly deeper; lower crest 

 along whole length of tail, the upper only on posterior two- 

 thirds of it. 



Mouth large; lips forming a sucking-disk, the upper one 

 without, the lower one thickly studded with very small, short, 

 rounded papillae; jaws white, lower one edged with black, 

 the upper one with a black diagonal mark on each side. 

 Series of teeth 2/3, those of the upper lip of equal length, 

 those of the lower one of equal length too, but shorter than 

 the upper series. 



Sepia-brown above, mottled darker and lighter, yeHowish 

 buff beneath; muscular portion of the tail sepia-brown mottled 

 with yellow; the crests are transparent, finely speckled with 

 sepia-brown towards their dark-brown edges. Length 34 mm. 



The tadpoles live in swift-flowing streams and are able to 

 fix themselves to stones by means of their mouth. 



Habitat: Borneo (Mt. Kina Balu, 640 and 1280 m.). — 

 Malay Peninsula, 600 — 1200 m. 



3. Bufo jerboa Blgr. 



Bufo jerboa Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1890, p. 328, pi. XXV, fig. 3. 

 Bufo jerboa Boulenger, Vert. Fauna Malay Penins., Rept. and Batr., London, 

 1912, p. 271. 



Habit very slender. Head without bony ridges; snout obli- 



