MEGALOPHRTS. 



279 



-297. Megalophrys nasuta. 



Me(/alo2jhr>ismontana (non Kuhl), Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 



xvi, p. 1061 ( IM7). 

 Ceratophryne nasuta, Schleg. Handl. Dierk. ii, p. 57, pi. iv, fig, 72 



(1858). 

 Megalophrys montana, part., Guntli. Kept. Brit. Irni. p. 41.3 (1804). 

 Megalophrys naauta^ (Tiiutb. .Vun. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xi, p. 419 



(187.3) ; Boiileng. Cat. Batr. Ecaucl. p. 443 (1882) ; S. Flower, 



P. Z. S. 1899, p. 913; Laidlaw, P. Z. S. 1900, p. 889; A. 



L. Butler, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Bombay, xv, p. 399 (1904) ; 



Bouleug. P. Z. S. 1908, p. 413, pi. xxii. 



Very closely related to the preceding ; distinguished by the 

 greater length of the palpebral horn-like appendage, which is at 

 least |, and often quite, as long as the eye iu the adult, and the 

 presence of a similar appendage on the end of the snout. Vomerine 

 teeth ou a level with the posterior border of the choante. The 



Fig. 77. — Megalophrys nasuia. 



dermal ossification may completely fuse with the skull, and form a 

 bony shield on the praesacral part of the body. Male with an 

 internal vocal sac. 



From snout to vent 125 millim. 



Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Natuna Islands. Eecorded 

 from Penaug, Perak, Selangor, Jahore, Malacca, and Singapore, 

 where it is not rare. It is principally a low-country species. 



H. 0. Forbes (' Naturalist's Wanderings,' p. 154), who has ob- 

 served this frog in Sumatra, says its anvil-clinking " Kang-kang '"' 



