July 2011 Volume 27, N o 4 Alytes, 2011, 27 (4): 117-141. Description of the advertisement calls of nine species of Fejervarya Bolkay, 1915 and Minervarya Dubois, Ohler & Biju, 2001 from China, India and Nepal Stéphane Grosjean & Alain Dubois Reptiles et Amphibiens, UMR 7205 OSEB, Département Systématique & Evolution, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, 25 rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France <sgrosjea@mnhn.fr>, <adubois@mnhn.fr> The advertisement calls of eight species of the genus Fejervarya and of Minervarya sahyadris (Dicroglossidae) are described in detail. This includes the advertisement calls of the holotypes of F. pierrei, F. teraiensis and M. sahyadris, as well as of a paratype of F. nepalensis. For each species, temporal and frequency parameters are provided, as well as an oscillogram and a spectrogram. The particular calls emitted before the advertisement call proper are discussed. The advertisement calls described herein are compared to previous call descriptions of the same species and some calls of unidentified Fejervarya species reported in literature are tentatively assigned to calls described herein. Calls of species which could occur in sympatry are compared to each other. The call of M. sahyadris is compared with the call of the recently described second species of the genus, M. chilapata. Introduction The genus Fejervarya is a taxonomically complex group of morphologically similar frogs comprising 32 currently recognized species distributed in Pakistan, India, Nepal, southern China, Indochina to the islands of the Sunda Shelf, and Japan and Papua New Guinea (Frost, 2010 [http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/amphibia/], 4 October, 2010). Though the members of this genus inhabit open areas such as paddy fields and are usually quite common when present, their taxonomy is far from being fully resolved. Indeed this group of frogs is composed of morphologically very similar species, generally named Fejervarya limnocharis, which was so considered as a very largely distributed species. Even before molecular data (Veith et al., 2001; Kurabayashi et al., 2005; Djong et al., 2007; Kuramoto et al., 2007), advertisement calls turned out to be very useful in discriminating several new species of Fejervarya in the small country of Nepal, within the group that had been previously named Rana limnocharis (Dubois, 1975). The usefulness of advertisement