88G MR. STANLEY S. FLOWER ON THE [NoV, 14, 



Order ECAUDATA. 



Pamily Eanid.e. 



1 . OxYGLOSSUS LIMA (Grravenh.). 

 O.vi/glossus lima, Blgr. Cat. Batr. Sal. p. 5. 

 " Kato' limpong " of the Malays of Kedah. 



Localities. In the P. Z. S. 1896, p. 897, 1 wrote : — "This species is 

 said to occur in the Malay Peninsula, but I have not. been able to 

 find it recorded south of Tenasserim, though it occurs again in 

 Java " ; but since then, in June 1898, I found it iiumerous near 

 Alor Star and at Jenan, in the State of Kedah, Malay Peninsula. 

 M. Mouhot obtained specimens in Siam and Cambodia. I ob- 

 tained specimens at the following places in Siam: — one Bangkok 

 (July), many Sapatoom (August), many Ayuthia (December), one 

 a few miles north of Ayuthia (February), many Pakpreo (June), 

 and one Bawtong Kabin (March). 



Habits. This is a thoroughly aquatic frog, to be found in small 

 ponds. 



Colour (in life). Above olive-brown (Kabin specimen dark, 

 Pakpreo ones light), lighter and greener on limbs, with or without 

 a pale yellow vertebral line ; beneath yellow, more or less 

 handsomely marked with dark olive-brown, including a narrow 

 line along middle of abdomen ; back of thigh conspicuously 

 marked with two yellow lines or a broad black one. Iris : narrow 

 gold line surrounding the black diamond-shaped pupil, remainder 

 brown. 



A particularly handsome individual from Bangkok was coloui'ed 

 in life : — Above olive-brown mottled with dark brown, a broad 

 black-edged vertebral line grass-green auteriorl3\ shading to olive- 

 green posteriorly ; beneath pale yellow, a pair of very distinct 

 black lines from the chin to the breast (the tubercles on these 

 lines form small yellow spots), a black line beneath each arm, 

 three longitudinal irregular dark brown lines on each side of the 

 body, an L-shaped black line on each side of the base of the 

 thighs, a very broad black line along the hinder side of the thigh, 

 above it being two narrow parallel ones, the interspaces forming 

 pale yellow lines. 



The eyes of 0. lima in life are very prominent and look upwards 

 and outwards. 



Size. The largest specimens measures snout to vent 33 mm. 



Distribution. Lower Bengal, Burma, Southern China, Siam, 

 Cambodia, Cochin China, Malay Peninsula, Java. 



2. OxYGLOssTTS L^Tis Giinther. 



Oxyglossus Imns, Blgr. Cat. Batr. Sal. p. 6 ; Blgr. P. Z. S. 1897, 

 p. 22*8 (tadpole). 



In the Museum at Taiping there are specimens from swamps 



