NEAV SPECIES OF LEPTOBRACHIUM 749 



smooth. Yellowish, with the back between the dermal ridges 

 purplish - grey ; the eyes , the dorsal ridges and the larger lateral 

 tubercles bordered with black ; a l)lackisli streak across the 

 interorbital region ; some of the lateral tubercles pure white ; 

 limbs purplish -grey, hands and feet carneous; gular region 

 purplish black. Male with an internal vocal sac. 



From snout to vent: c/, 115 millim. ; 9, 1G8. 



M. Fea obtained several specimens of this extremely interesting 

 frog, which occurs on the Western slope of the Karens Mountains, 

 East of Toungoo, at an altitude of 800 metres and upwards. 

 Althougli probaljly not rare, specimens are difficult to find, as, 

 like other nocturnal Batrachians, they remain concealed in fis- 

 sures in rocks or Ijetween the roots of shrubs in the daytime. 

 Specimens were kept alive l}y M. Fea, and the males showed 

 themselves very irrita Ijle when disturbed, opening their wide 

 gape , ready to bite on the slightest provocation , emitting at 

 the same time a shrill cry. As in the American Ceratophnjs ^ 

 the female is of more gentle disposition. The strong jaws of 

 this Batrachian enable it to overpower small mammalia, and a 

 large female opened by M. Fea contained, in addition to a few 

 insects, a small squirrel. 



The nearest ally of L. carineme is beyond question the 

 recently discovered Megalophrys feae, from the Kakhyen liills, 

 which however differs in two characters which have usually 

 been regarded as of generic importance, viz. the presence of 

 vomerine teeth and the single dermal appendage on the upper 

 eyelid. Finding that the new species agrees in all technical 

 points (osteological and other) with Lep(obrachiu//i „ the que- 

 stion naturally at once arose in my mind as to whether 

 Mct/alophri/s feae, of which I did not examine the vertebral 

 column on the unique specimen upon wliich the species was 

 founded, had been referred to the correct genus. Having fortu- 

 nately now at liand other specimens of M. feae, I made the 

 requisite examination, and Hud the vertebra^! to be procoelous, 

 as in L. cnriiiense . The vertebrae are opistliocoelous in Mcija- 

 loplirys monluiuiy misuta and longipes. I therefore think that 



