217 



Length of body twice its width; tail 1-/3 to lY^ the length 

 of the body, its depth (without crests) about '/- its length. 

 Spiraculum sinistral, lateral, nearer to the base of the tail than to 

 the end of the snout. Tail pointed ; the crests beginning at 

 a considerable distance from the base of the tail. 



Behind the mouth a ventral sucking disk, which is free on 

 its borders, truncate in front, and the posterior border of which 

 is situated below the spiraculum ; lips much developed, without 

 papillae; jaws black, the edge feebly denticulated, formed of 

 one piece each ; rows of teeth 3 ' 3 / ' 3 '• 



Greyish brown above, whitish beneath; tail light-spotted. 

 Length 46 mm. 



Habitat: Simalur!; Sumatra (Brastagi, Karo highland, 

 1400 m.!; Tandjongberingin, Batak mts., 300 m.!; Batak mts., 

 800 m.; Andalas!; Fort de Kock ! ; Singkarah ! ; Danau diatas !; 

 Sandaran xA.gung, 745 m. !, and Sinlak Daras, 900 m., in 

 Kurintji valley; Sungai Kring! and Sungai Kumbang, i4COm.!, 

 Kurintji); Borneo! (Mt. Dulit and Mt. Batu Song, Serawak) ; 

 Java (rPosata, Bantam; Perbawati, Mt. Gedeh!; Djampang 

 Kulon !). — Malay Peninsula. 



41. Rana chalconota (Schlg.). 



Hyla cIialconolHs (part.) Schlet^el, Abbild. neuer odcr unvollst. bek. Amph., 

 Diisseldorf, 1837—44, p. 23, pi. L, fig. 3? (not pi. IX, fig. 1). 



Polypcdates yiiitghuhiiii Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned.-Indie, XI, 1856, p. 469 'J. 



Rana chalconota Boulenger, Cat. Hatr. Sal. Biit. Mus., 1882, p. 66 (with fig. of hand). 



Kana chalconota Boettger, Ber. Offenb. Ver. f. Naturk. (1887 — 91), 1892, p. 141. 



Rana Evcretti (part.) Boijlenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1897, p. 232 (tadpole). 



Rana Mocquardi Werner, Zool. Anz., XXIV, 1 901, p. 98. 



Rana tytleri (part.) Isenschmid (nee Theob.), Mitth. naturf. Ges. Bern, 1903, p. 72. 



Rana chalconota and Everett!^ v. Kampen, Weber's Zool. Ergebn., Leiden, IV, 

 1907, p. 392, 394 (with tadpole). 



Rana chalconota v. Kampen, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned.-Iudie, LXIX, 1909, p 37 (tadpole). 



Rana Evcretti Roux, Zool. Jahrb., Syst., XXX, 191 1, p. 506 (tadpole). 



Rana chalconota (part.) Boulenger, Rec. Ind. Mus., XX, 1920, p. 201. 



\Rana sanchczi Taylor, Philipp. Jrn. of .Sc, XVI, 1920, p. 256. 



Vomerine teeth in two oblique series between the choanae, 

 often extending beyond their posterior borders. Head longer 

 than broad; snout pointed, projecting, as long as the upper 

 eyelid ; canthus rostralis angular, straight ; loreal region slightly 

 oblique, concave; nostril much nearer to end of snout than to eye; 



i) Specimen in the Leiden Museum, collected by Bleeker, examined by me. 



