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niMENSIONS 



mm. 



Total length from snout to vent 18 



Greatest width of body 7 



Width of head at posterior angle of eye 5 



Tip of snout to eye 3 



Tip of snout to insertion of front leg 7. 5 



Diameter of eye 2.25 



Foreleg 9. 5 



Vent to heel , 15 



Heel to tip of fourth toe . 14 



Outer metatarsal tubercle to tip of fourth toe 9.5 



Tibia 10 



Remarks. — Of this new species there is another specimen (No. 

 65937) besides the type. It is a millimeter longer, otherwise in 

 most details identical, though the serial arrangement of the dorsal 

 tubercles is not quite so regular. 



The species seems to be smaller than the related ones, is (juit e 

 rough above, and very much darker colored. The pattern is esseii- 

 tially that of M. fissipes, except that the dorsal mark is wider ante- 

 riorly and the lateral band shorter, starting only on the shoulder. 



In the roughness of its upper surfaces it surpasses the M. sowerhyi, 

 to be described next, but the rudimentary webs and lack of digital 

 disks differentiate it at once. 



It is with great pleasure that I dedicate this interesting novelty to 

 its discoverer, Rev. D. C. Graham. 



MICROHYLA SOWERBYI Stejneger 



1924. Microhyla sowerbyi Stejneger, Occ. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 

 5, July 21, 1924, p. 119 ( tyi)e-locality, near Yen-ping-fu, Fukieu. China; 

 type, U.S.N.M. No. 65309; A. de C. S'owerby, collector). 



Diagnosis. — Interorbital space slightly wider than upper eyelid; 

 skin above, including head and legs, densely tubercular; toes scant 

 one-third webbed, with rather wide dermal margins and well-devel- 

 oped disks; heel of extended hind leg reaches between eye and tip 

 of snout; two prominent, though small, subequal metatarsal 

 tubercles. 



Description of type. — Snout slightly longer than diameter of 

 orbit; interorbital space slightly wider than upper eyelid; first finger 

 much shorter than second, tips of all widened; toes with a well- 

 developed web not quite one-third and rather wide dermal margins; 

 tips widened into distinct disks with indication of a groove on top ; 

 subaiticular tubercles prominent; two metatarsal tubercles, subequal, 

 small, scarcely larger than a subarticular tubercle, prominent and 

 rather pointed ; hind limb being carried forward along the body, the 

 tibio-tarsnl joint reaches between the eye and the tip of snout; skin 



