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that of third finger; a large, blunt oval inner metatarsal tubercle and 

 a smaller, rounded outer one; a weak inner tarsal ridge, enlarged into 

 an oval gland just behind the inner metatarsal tubercle and ending 

 before reaching heel; a row of three or four small elongate glands 

 along outer tarsal border, ending with a small blunt heel tubercle. Body 

 stout, in postaxillary region equal to greatest width of head. When 

 hind leg is adpressed, heel reaches posterior border of tympanum; 

 when limbs are laid along the side, knee and elbow are widely sep- 

 arated; when hind legs are bent at right angles to body, heels barely 

 touch. Skin of upper parts with many spiny glandules and a network 

 of glandular lines, the most prominent of which are the dorsolateral 

 ones, an X-shaped pair behind head and several transverse ones on 

 sacrum and across tibia; head with a small, pointed gland at tip of 

 snout; venter coarsely granular on belly, faintly granular on chestj 



Figure 46. — Trachyphrynus myersi, holotype, CAS 85177 (X 3). 



