and a new Batrachian from North Borneo. 453 



Oreoca la m us Ha n itsch i. 



Snout pointed. Rostral as deep as broad, the portion 

 visible from above measuring half its distance from the 

 frontal ; interiiasals half as long as the prefrontals ; frontal 

 hexagonal, once and a half as long as broad, longer than its 

 distance from the end of the snout, shorter than the parietals ; 

 nostril close to the rostral, between a nasal and the first labial 

 (the suture between the two shields has disappeared on the 

 left side of the type specimen) ; loreal longer than deep, its 

 lower border forming an angle wedged in between the second 

 and third labials ; one pra3- and one postocular ; temporals 

 1 + 2; eight upper labials, fourth and fifth entering the eye, 

 seventh larg-est : first lower labial in contact with its fellow 

 behind the symphysial ; four lower labials in contact with 

 the anterior chin-shields ; posterior chin-shields shorter, in 

 contact with each other. Scales smooth, in 17 rows. Ven- 

 trals 127; anal entire; subcaudals 26 pairs. Blackish 

 brown above and on the outer ends of the ventral shields; 

 belly yellowish white, with a few scattered brown dots ; tail 

 brown beneath, with a darker median streak. 



Total length 375 millim. ; tail 50. 



A single male specimen from Kina Balu, 4200 feet. 

 Raffles Museum. 



Leptobrachium haluense. 



Tongue pyriform, entire. Vomerine teeth in two small 

 widely separated groups behind the line of the choans. 

 Head much depressed, nearly twice as broad as long, semi- 

 circular in outline ; skin adherent to the rugose skull ; snout 

 shorter than the diameter of the orbit, not projecting beyond 

 the mouth ; canthus rostralis angular ; loreal region vertical, 

 concave ; interorbital region nearly twice as broad as the 

 upper eyelid ; tympanum feebly distinct, three fifths the 

 diameter of the eye. Fingers rather elongate, slender, first 

 extending a little beyond second. Foot much longer than 

 the head ; toes moderately long, slender, with a very short 

 web at the base; no subarticular or metatarsal tubercles. 

 The tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the shoulder. Skin 

 perfectly smooth ; a very small tubercle near the border of 

 the upper eyelid, above the pupil. Back and upper surface 

 of snout dark grey ; posterior half of upper surface and sides 

 of head blackish brown ; a curved light streak, the concavity 

 turned forwards, across the upper eyelids and the interorbital 

 region, followed by a Y-shaped blackish marking; two light 



