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upper eyelid. Fingers with small, toes with rather large disks; 

 first finger much shorter than second, which is about as long 

 as fourth; third toe extending beyond fifth; toes half webbed; 

 subarticular tubercles feebly prominent; metatarsal tubercles 

 small, the outer one may be absent; the heel reaches beyond the 

 tip of the snout; tibia -/g length of head and body. 



Skin smooth, or with small warts above. 

 ■ Brown or pinkish above, with more or less distinct symme- 

 trical, blackish, light-edged markings, among which usually 

 a large one on the back and a transverse bar between the 

 eyes, both sometimes confluent; side of body, from the shoulder 

 to the lumbar region, usually black, with sharply defined 

 upper outline; an oblique whitish streak from the eye to the 

 base of the fore limb; a narrow, pale, vertebral line may be 

 present; limbs with black cross-bars; lower parts whitish, or 

 marbled with dark brown. Length 22 mm. 



Perhaps not different from M. palniipes. 



Habitat: Nias!; Sumatra (Deli !; Sungai Kumbang, 1400 m., 

 Kurintji peak; Kurintji!); Borneo (Kidi district inSeravvak); 

 Java (near Tjibodas, + 1400 — 2000 m. !). — Siam ; Malay 

 Peninsula, up to +1200 m. 



6, Microhyla palmipes Blgr. 



Microhyla pahiiipcs Boulenger, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (6) XIX, 1897, p. 108. 



Head broader than long; snout rounded, feebly projecting, 

 as long as or shorter than the upper eyelid ; canthus rostralis 

 rounded ; loreal region nearly vertical ; nostril in the middle 

 between eye and tip of snout; interorbital space broader than 

 the upper eyelid. Disks of fingers and toes very small; first 

 finger much shorter than second, which is about as long as 

 fourth; third toe extending beyond fifth; toes -/g or ^/^ webbed; 

 subarticular tubercles distinct; two small metatarsal tubercles; 

 the heel reaches the tip of the snout ; tibia nearly -/g length 

 of head and body. 



Skin smooth, or with small warts above. 



Grey-brown above, with or without symmetrical, darker, 

 light-edged markings, viz. a triangle between the eyes, a large 

 A -shaped figure on the back, and a dark oblique figure from 

 the eye to the middle of the side; a dark oblique bar on 

 the thigh and another one on the tibia ; anal region black ; a black 



