316 Miscellaneous. 



" Pupil diamond-shaped, horizontal. 



" The colour and rugose character of the skin of this frog is 

 evidently a means of protecting it from birds and other 

 enemies, the whole upper surface being such a close copy of 

 the bark of a tree that it is very hard to detect one when 

 resting upon it, 



" This species also lives in holes in trees, and the note pro- 

 duced by it is not so loud as that of Phrynella, and has a 

 more metallic ring in it. 



" My specimens were obtained at an elevation of 4000 ft. 

 on the hills of Larut, Perak." 



Mr. Boulenger has directed my attention to the fact that 

 this species resembles closely a frog from Padang, shortly 

 noticed and rudely figured under the name of Ilyla Jeprosa by 

 Schlegel, in a popular work, ' Handb. der Dierk.' ii. p. 55, 

 pi. iv. fig. 68. Tschudi considered it the type of a distinct 

 genus, Theloderma (Class. Batr. 1839, pp. 32, 73) ; and more 

 recently it was more fully described by Horst (Notes Leid. 

 Mus. V. p. 237). The two latter authors agree in ascribing 

 to the frog a tongue cordate behind, but terminating in a single 

 appendage. If this form of tongue is really characteristic of 

 the Padang frog, the latter would have to be referred to a 

 genus distinct from Polypedates ; but if it be merely caused 

 by some accident, our specimen may prove to be identical 

 with that in the Ley den Museum. In either case the creation 

 of a synonym will be avoided by adopting here the same 

 specific name. 



Megalophrys longipes^ Blgr. 



Megalophrys longipes, Blgr. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 850, pi. Iv. 



This species is rare and local, Mr, Wray having succeeded 

 in obtaining three specimens only, of which one was captured 

 at an elevation of 4400 feet. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Observation on Multiplication in AmcebEe, By Lillie E. Holman. 



On the 4th of July, 1886, I was examining the forms of life con- 

 tained in a Holman life-shde which had been filled for several 

 hours. It contained different Infusoria, and, among other animals, 

 specimens of ^olosoma. But it seemed for some time as if there 

 were no Amoehce in the slide, until I discovered a small one near 

 the channel. In shape it seemed like an elongated triangle, and 

 was rather torpid, or, at least, moved but little. "While I was 

 examining it, it moved up closer to the line of the channel, and 

 another Amoeba, about twice the size of the first one, came gliding 

 on the scene. It moved up very close to the other, and in a few 



