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at Singapore : — " It does not attempt to escape by jumping into the 

 water .... but even if touched squats down close .... so is easily 

 caught." The individuals I met at Chumar had this habit, but else- 

 where, at Taiping, Bangkok, &c., I found them very agile and 

 difficult to snare. 



In captivity they feed readily, eating insects in the same manner 

 as R. temporar'ia does ; winged termites they devour in large 

 numbers and will also manage grasshoppers of comparatively large 

 size ; when suddenly seized in the hand or when caught by a snake, 

 they utter shrill piercing shrieks of alarm. 



Colour (in life). Bangkok specimens not unfrequently have a 

 very distinct grass-green vertebral line, others none at all ; in the 

 Dong Phya Fai the commonest colour-variety was one I have not 

 seen elsewhere, there being transverse bands of bright grass-green 

 across the back, but specimens with yellow vertebral lines were 

 also to be seen. The sexes are coloured alike, except that the male 

 may have a broad black M-shaped mark on the throat. 



The following description applies to Taiping specimens : — 



Above olive-brown, irregularly mottled with darker ; vertebral 

 line either absent, or well defined, narrow and yellow, or irregular, 

 broad and orange-coloured. Limbs extensively marked w ith dark 

 brown ; hinder portion of thigh yellow, marbled with dark brow n. 

 Underneath of head, neck, and body pure white, but lower surface 

 of limbs yellow. Both upper and lower lips white, with large 

 distinct dark brown blotches ; the point of the snout white, with a 

 well-defined verj' dark brown blotch on each side. 



Size. A pair caught in copula in Bangkok, 24th Juty, 1898, 

 measured : — S ■ Snout to vent 46 mm. $ . Snout to vent 52 mm. 



Distribution. Sikhim, India, Ceylon, Burma, China, Hongkong, 

 Hainan, Formosa, Japan, Siam, Malay Peninsula, Java, Lombok, 

 and Borneo. 



11. Eaita hascheana (Stol.). 



Polypedates hnscheanus, Stol. J. A. S. B. 1870, p. 147, pi. ix. 

 fig. 3. 



I caught one apparentlj' adult specimen on Penang Hill, at an 

 elevation of 2000 feet, late at night in April 1898, it was very 

 active ; also many young ones in the same locality during March 

 and April. 



Colour (in Hfe). Above rich yellow, with on the side very small 

 dark brown spots more or less symmetrically arranged ; a dark 

 brown band between the eyes, edged with paler yellow in front, 

 followed by a faint W-shaped mark, the ends of which begin 

 behind the eyes ; Stoliczka adds, "a pair of somewhat indistinct 

 blackish spots below the middle of the body," these are just 

 discernible in my specimen ; sides of the head and neck rich dark 

 brown, spotted with pale yellow, the most noticeable spot being a 

 large irregularly shaped one behind the angle of the mouth ; sides 

 of body finely spotted with very dark brown and white ; limbs 

 with dark brown cross-bands ; lower parts white, with pale purple 



