12 REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS FEOM MT. MURUD. 



Most of the specimens are coloured like the type, and one or 

 two or more white spots in the groin or flanks are constantly 

 present. Some individuals are greyish-brown in colour mottled 

 with darker. Juveniles are usually paler in colouration. 



Many of the females collected are filled w'ith ripe ova. 

 These are few in nun^iber and extremely large. In one speci- 

 men, 26 mm. from snout to vent, from which I extracted 9 

 eggs, the ^dtelline sphere measures between 3 and 3.5 mm. in 

 diameter, whilst in another female an egg which had been 

 extruded, and preserved intact with its surrounding gelatinous 

 envelope, measures 9.5 mm. in diameter. 



Dr. Mjoberg states that these frogs were found depositing 

 their eggs and breeding in the pitchers of the Pitcher plants 

 (Nepenthes) , no other water being available for the purpose. 

 Unfortunately he obtained no larvae, and the very large size 

 of the eggs would appear to indicate that a considerable part 

 of the larval development, at any rate, was carried on away 

 from water. 



10. Sphenophryne leucostigma. 



Microhyla leucostigma Boulenger, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1899, (7) 

 iii, p. 275, fig. — idem., Fauna Malay Penin., Eept. and Batr., 1912, 

 p. 260.— S. Flower, P. Z. S., London, 1899, p. 905.— A. L. Butler, Journ. 

 N. H. S. Bombay, 1904, xv, p. 388. 



Chaperina fusca Mocquard, Mem. Soc. Zool. France, 1892, V, p. 194, 

 figs. — (? in part), Van Kampen, Amphib. Indo-Austr. Archip., 1923, 

 p. 109. 



Chaperina beyeri Taylor, Philippine Amphibia, 1920, p. 833, fig. 



Nectophryne picturata Male. Smith, Journ. F.M.S. Mus., 1921, x, 

 p. 197, fig. 



