158 



spot on the inner side of the tibia, a little above the heel; 

 lower parts whitish, throat and belly with a few brown specks; 

 lower lip dark brown with white dots. From snout to vent i8 mm. 

 Habitat: Java (Pengalengan, 1200 m. ; Dieng, 2000 m. !); 

 Madura! 



7. Microhyla berdmorii (Blyth). 



Engysfoma Q) Berdfiwrei Blyth, Jrn. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, XXIV, 1855, p. 720. 

 Microhyla berdmorii Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., 1882, p. 166. 

 Microhyla berdmorii Werner, Zool. Jahrb., Syst., XIII, 1900, p. 496. 

 Microhyla berdmorii Boulenger, Vert. Fauna Malay Penins., Rept. and Batr., 

 London, 1912, p. 263. 



Snout subacuminate, as long as or a little longer than the 

 orbit; interorbital space broader than the upper eyelid. Fingers 

 with very small, toes with rather large disks; first finger much 

 shorter than second; toes webbed to the tips; subarticular 

 tubercles very distinct; two very small metatarsal tubercles; 

 the heel reaches beyond the tip of the snout; tibia -/a length 

 of head and body. 



Skin smooth, or with a few scattered tubercles on back 

 and sides. 



Brownish, olive or pinkish above; a darker, light-edged, 

 hourglass-shaped, large spot on the head and anterior part of 

 the back, beginning between the eyes, sometimes continued 

 on the hind part of the back; black spots on the sides of 

 the limbs and occasionally on the flanks ; a chevron-shaped 

 black marking on the anal region; lower surface whitish, throat 

 and breast clouded with brown. From snout to vent 45 mm. 



Male with an internal vocal sac. 



Tadpole. — Flower (Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1899, p. 903, 

 pi. LX, figs. 2,2a — c) has described taid^oles o{ 2i Microhyla s^. 

 from Penang, which Annandale (Mem. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, VI, 

 1917, p. 151) suggests to belong to M. berdmorii. Their de- 

 scription runs as follows : 



Length of body about I'/g times its width; tail i*/j to I'^/g 

 the length of the body. Nostril nearer the tip of the snout 

 than the eye; eyes lateral, visible from above and from below, the 

 distance between them about 6 times that between the nostrils; 

 spiraculum median, the opening of its transparent sheath in 

 a vertical line drawn behind the body ; anal tube median. 

 Tail ending in a very fine pointed filament; the upper crest 



