850 Philippine Journal of Science 1920 
or hills, at elevations not exceeding 300 meters. The tadpoles 
were taken in small mountain streams, but the specimens pre- 
served were lost. I suspect that many of the Philippine spec- 
imens that have been reported as Megalophrys montana were 
really M. stejnegeri. Boulenger has reported M. montana from 
Dinagat ** and Samar; ** F. Miiller *° and I. G. Fischer *° both 
report it from Mindanao. 
If the specimens taken were young or females, the vocal sacs 
may have been overlooked. It is possible, of course, that two 
species occur in one locality. In view of this possibility I include 
Boulenger’s description of Megalophrys montana (Kuhl). 
Megalophrys ligaye sp. nov. Plate 10, figs. 2 and 2a. 
Type.—No. F325, E. H. Taylor collection; collected in north- 
ern Palawan, May, 1918, by Victor Lednicky. 
Description of type.-—Vomerine teeth in two strong rounded 
groups lying between the posterior part of choane, separated 
from each other by a distance equal to one and one-half times the 
length of a single group; separated from choanz by a distance 
about half the length of a single group; choanz not concealed by 
overhanging jaw; the distance between the Eustachian tubes 
distinctly greater than their distance from choane; distance 
between choane a little less than distance between nostrils; male 
with vocal sacs, the openings rather elongate slits; openings dis- 
tinct, about halfway from posterior part of tongue and angle of 
mouth; tongue rounded, with a distinct nick behind; head much 
broader than long; snout rather distinctly pointed in front; 
eye large, its diameter distinctly less than length of snout; nos- 
tril halfway between eye and tip of snout, or slightly nearer 
tip; tympanum moderately distinct, its greatest length about 
two-thirds of diameter of eye; separated from eye by a distance 
nearly one and a half times its greatest length; width of eyelid 
(exclusive of spine) contained one and one-half times in inter- 
orbital distance; skin with minute spicules, with larger tubercles 
on back, sides, and limbs; belly smooth; a short dermal spine 
on edge of upper eyelid; a distinct fold from eye to above arm; 
two slightly diverging dorsolateral folds beginning in the oc- 
cipital region and continuing half the length of body; a rather 
short dermal spine at angle of mouth; prominent glandular 
* Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus. ed. 2 (1882) 442. 
* Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1 (1908) 413. 
“III. Nacht. Cat. Herp. Samml. Basel Mus. (1883) 11. 
“Jarhb. Wiss. Anst. Hamburg 2 (1885) 80. 
