412 BATRACHIA. 



brown streaks, beginning on the upper eyelid, convergent towards behind, and separated by 

 the yellow band ; a brown streak from the eye along the canthus rostralis ; beneath nearly 

 uniform white. Males with the throat and vocal sacs brown. 



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The largest specimens measure 2 inches or somewhat more in length ; their hind legs 2^ 

 or 2g- inches, the males having the toes a little more slender than the females. This species 

 is found m the Peninsula of India and at Simla, where it was discovered by Messrs. von 

 Schlagintweit ; it is said to occur also in Ceylon, but it must be very local there, as we have 

 never received it from that island. With the aid of its shovel-like metatarsal tubercle it 

 burrows in the ground to a depth of Ij foot. 



We have seen coloured figures of Mr. Jerdon's Pyxicephalus fodiens and P. pluvialis, in 

 the possession of Walter Elliot, Esq., from which it is evident that they are identical ; the 

 figure representing the P. pluvialis is taken from a male. 



Pyxicephalus rufescens. 



Pyxicephalus rufescens, Jerdon, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1854, p. o34. 



" Of a rufous colour above, whitish beneath ; body rough and granulose ; limbs barred. 

 Length 1^ inch ; hind leg 2^^ inches ; foot \ inch. Not rare in gardens on the Malabar 

 coast." 



I have not seen an example of this frog ; but there is an elaborate coloured drawing in the 

 collection of Walter Elliot, Esq., which seems to represent this species, although it is not 

 named. It would appear from it that P. rufescens is very similar in habit to P. breviceps, 

 having, however, the skin coarsely tubercular. The eye, also, is comparatively much smaller ; 

 the interdigital membrane of the hind foot is as short as in the other species. 



MEGALOPHRYS, Kuhl 



Fingers quite free ; toes with a short but distinct interdigital membrane. 

 Head and body much depressed ; eyelid prolonged into a triangular Hap ; 

 cleft of the mouth large. Vomerine teeth present. Tongue circular. 

 Tympanum hidden ; openings of the eustachian tubes of moderate width. 

 Male without vocal sac. 



Only one species is known. 



Note. — Mr. Blyth refers two Batrachians to the genus Megalophrys, viz. M. gigas (Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. xxiii. p. 299) from Sikkim, and M. guttulata {ibid. xxiv. p. 717) from Pegu. The characters given 

 are perfectly useless, as none of these frogs belong to the genus Megalophrys : they have not the eyelid 



