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This frog does not appear to have any very clbse ally. 

 Mr. Boulenger, who kindly examined the series with me, 

 placed it near to Rana heddomii (ninther, from Southern 

 India. 



Males smaller than females, without vocal sacs, and 

 with an enlarged (pale) pad on the first finger. 



Eggs large and few, unpigmented, the vitelline sphere 

 measuring 2 mm. in diameter. 



Nasals largely in contact with each other ; terminal 

 l)lialanges Y-shaped. 



Type series in the British Museum. Type locality, 

 Tasan, 25 miles S.W. of Chumporn, Peninsular Siam. 



46 specimens examined, all from the type loca)ity, with 

 one exception from Mamoh, in Renong (No. 4501 ) . 



Nectophryne picturata, .sp. nov. (pi. II, fig. 2) , 



Habit slender ; head as long as broad ; snout loundcd. 

 projecting beyond the lower jaw, as long as the orbit ; no 

 canthus rostralis ; loreal region oblique ; interorbital region 

 fwice as broad as the upper eyelid ; tympanum absent. 



Fingers with well developea truncated discs, webl)ed 

 al the base, first much shorter than second ; subarticulav 

 tubercles well developed'; toes webbed at the base, the 

 discs a little larger than those of the fingers ; two flat 

 metatarsal tubercles ; no tarsal fold ; the tibiotarsal articu- 

 lation reaches the tip of the snout, 



