442 PELOBATID-a. 



tarsal articulation reaches the eye, the tip of the snout, or a little 

 beyond the latter. Skin smooth or minutely tubercular above ; 

 generally a V-shaped linear raised fold on the nape. Olive-brown 

 above ; a dark, light-edged, triangular spot between the eyes ; 

 generally one or two other angular markings on the back ; generally 

 a dark baud along each side of the head : hind limbs cross-barred ; 

 throat and breast marbled with brown. Male with two internal 

 vocal sacs. 



Himalayan Region : Birmah. 



a. Hgr. Sikkim. Messrs. v. Scklagintweit [C.]. 



(Type of Xendphrys monticola.) 

 T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. 

 T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. 



T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. 

 Sir W. Hooker [P.J. 

 W. Theobald, Esq. [P.]. 



7. MEGALOPHRYS. 



Megalophrys, Kuhl, Bull. Soc. Nat.; Wagl. Syst. Amph. p. 204; 



Tschudi, Batr. p. 82 ; Bum. fy Bibr. viii. p. 456 ; Giinth. Cat. p. 36 ; 



Cope, Nat. Hist. Rev. 1865, p. 107, and Journ. Ac. Philad. (2) vi. 



1866, p. 80. 

 Ceratopkiyne, Giinth. Cat. p. 136. 



Pupil erect. Tongue subcircular, indistinctly nicked and free 

 behind. Vomerine teeth in two small groups. Tympanum hidden. 

 Eingers free ; toes slightly webbed, the tips not dilated into regular 

 disks. Outer metatarsals united. Omosternum cartilaginous ; 

 sternum with a bony style. Vertebra? opisthoccelian ; sacral vertebra 

 with strongly dilated diapophyses, and one condyle for articulation 

 with coccyx. 



E. Indies. 



1. Megalophrys montana. 



Megalophrys montana, Giinth. Cat. p. 36. 

 Megalophrys montana, {Kuhl) Wagl. Syst. Amph. p. 204 ; Tschudi, 



Batr. p. 82 ; Bum. §■ Bibr. p. 458 ; Cantor, Cat. Mai. Bept. p. 140 ; 



Giinth. Bept. Brit. hid. p. 413, and Ann. $ Mag. N H. (4) xi. 



p. 419. 

 Ceratophrys montana, Schleg. Abbild. t. x. f. 3. 



Vomerine teeth rn. two small groups a little behind the choanse. 

 Head much depressed : snout very short, truncated, with angular 

 canthus rostralis and deeply concave loreal region ; interorbital space 

 very broad, slightly concave. First ringer not extending beyond 

 second ; toes webbed at the base ; tips of fingers and toes blunt or 

 slightly swollen ; subarticular and metatarsal tubercles indistinct. 

 The hind limb being carried forwards along the body, the tibio-tarsal 

 articulation reaches the angle of the mouth or a little beyond. Skin 

 with scattered conical warts ; upper eyelid tubercular, produced into 



