FASCICULI MALATENSES 
This fine new Rhacophorus is very near R* fascia tus^ Blgr., from Sarawak, 
It differs in. the more rounded snout, the more anterior nostril, a larger 
tympanum, and strikingly in colouration, R, sbelfordi , Blgr., also from 
Sarawak, which agrees very closely in most respects with this species and with 
R. fasciaiuSy is distinguished by having the disks of the fingers considerably 
smaller than the tympanum. 
A single specimen, from Bn kit Besar, 2,500 feet, 
( The specimen was taken in the morning, seated, a foot or two above 
the ground, on the leaf of a herbaceous plant growing in thick jungle. It was 
very sluggish, making no attempt to escape, though considerable disturbance 
had been caused by our passage in its immediate neighbourhood. The fore¬ 
legs were folded beneath the chest, and the hind legs were pressed close to 
the sides of the body, beneath which the feet were partially concealed ; the 
snout was somewhat depressed. The colour of the whole of the dorsal 
surface was a pale coffee, which so closely resembled the shade assumed by 
many dying leaves that the frog, with its leaf-like outline in the attitude 
described, was, at first sight, mistaken for a leaf that had fallen from the trees 
above and had accidentally lodged on the plant; Mr. Robinson, a Malay 
who accompanied us, and I were all completely deceived. At this time the 
purplish-grey of the side of the head was black, and extended in a well- 
defined band down each side. When the specimen was handled, its colour 
became darker, and mottlings of an ill-defined character, as well as the cross¬ 
bars on the limbs, made their appearance, as they so often do in species of 
Rhacophorus. The specimen permitted itself to be captured almost without a 
struggle, after waiting while a camera was fetched and a photograph taken. 
14* Rhacophorus nigropalmatus, Blgr. 
(Pi. vi, Figr. i). 
This handsome frog, probably the very species alluded to by Wallace 1 2 3 
as the c flying frog/ was first described from Sarawak. It has since been 
rediscovered In Sumatra 1 and in Upper Perak.* 
A female specimen was obtained at Mabek, Jalor, on the 22nd July, 
1901. Its colour in life was as follows * Dorsal surface pale grass green, 
powdered with white ; a conspicuous white mark on the dorsal surface of the 
thigh ; on the dorsal surface of the feet, the green changes gradually into 
orange ; membrane of the feet, orange marked with black ; sides of the body 
1. Mday Archifxl&go I, p. 60. 
2. F. Werner, Zoo!. Jahrb. Syst . XIII, 1900, p. 496, 
3. S. Flower, Prof. Zoal. Sot. 1899, p. 899. 
