1899.] BATBAOHIANS OF THE MALAY PENINSULA AND STAM. 913 



Colour (in life). General colour varies from yellowish brown, 

 irregularly darker on upper surface, to rich reddish brown and 

 blackish. Iris : a narrow golden line round pupil, remainder 

 golden, very finely speckled and vermiculated with very dark 

 bronze. 



Size. Largest Penang specimen I have measured was, snout to 

 vent 170 mm. (6| inches). 



Distribution. Tenasserim, Mergui, Malay Peninsula, Java, 

 Borneo. 



N.B. — BuFo QALBATUS Giinther. 

 Bufo r/aleatus, Blgr. Cat. Batr. Sal. p. 814. 

 The type specimen, a female, was obtained by M. Mouhot in 

 Cambodia, so the species may be eventually found in Siam. 



!Family Pelobatid^. 



44, Leptobeachium hasselti Tschudi. 



Leplohracliinm hasseUii, Blgr. Cat. Batr. Sal. p. 441 ; S. Flower, 

 P. Z. S. 189a, p. 913 ; Hanitsch, Eep. Eaffles Libr. & Mus. 1897, 



Distribution. Burma, Malay Peninsula, Java. 



45. Megalophets nasuta (Schleg.). 



MegcdopJirys montana var., Cantor, p. 140 ; part., Giinth. Eept 

 Brit. Ind. p. 413. 



Megalophrijs nasuta, Blgr. Cat. Batr. Sal. p, 443 ; S. Flower 

 P. Z. S. 1896, p. 913. 



" Katah bertandu " of the Malays of Perak, according to 

 L. Wray, jun. 



Cantor obtained two specimens on the Pentland Hills, Penang, 

 at an elevation of about 1800 feet. When in Penang during 

 March and April 1898, I obtained one adult specimen from a 

 valley ; and two adults, two small specimens, and many recently 

 transformed young from the hills at elevations of from 1800 to 

 20Q0 feet. This species is also found in Perak (specimens in 

 British and local Museums) ; in Selangor (one specimen in local 

 Museum, caught about 15 miles from Kuala Lumpor, 1898) • 

 Malacca (Eaffles Museum) ; Johore (Eaffles Mus.) ; and on Bukit 

 Timah, Singapore (Eaffles Mus.). 



Colour. Cantor gives a good description of this species, but 

 says " above, pale greyish-brown ; " in four specimens w^hich I 

 observed alive for several days I found they were capable of 

 altering their colour to a great extent — olive-brown, red-bronze, 

 yellowish bronze or chocolate, but in every case the coloiu-s and 

 shades resembled those seen in dead leaves ; the rich dark-brown 



