II 



Megalophrys nasuta Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., 1882, p. 443. 

 Pelobatrachus nasutus Beddard, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1907, p. 909. 

 Megalophrys nasuta Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1908, p. 413, pi. XXII. 

 Megalophrys nasuta Boulenger, Vert. Fauna Malay Penins., Kept, and Batr., 

 London, 1912, p. 279, fig. 77. 



Tongue entire or more or less distinctly nicked behind ; 

 vomerine teeth in two widely separated small groups on a 

 level with, or a little behind the posterior borders of the choanae. 

 Head large, once and a half to twice as broad as long ; snout 

 truncate, projecting, as long as or a little shorter than the 

 upper eyelid, and longer than deep; canthus rostralis strongly 

 angular, curved ; loreal region vertical or feebly oblique, con- 

 cave; nostril about equidistant from eye and end of snout; 

 interorbital space in the adult once and a half to twice the 

 width of the upper eyelid; tympanum often hidden, if distinct 

 V2 to Va tne width of the eye, from which it is widely separated. 

 Fingers and toes obtuse, or with feebly swollen tips; first 

 finger as long as or longer than second, which extends as far 

 as or a little beyond fourth; third toe distinctly longer than 

 fifth; toes feebly, at most 1 / 4 , webbed; no subarticular tubercles; 

 a flat, very indistinct inner, no outer metatarsal tubercle; heel 

 reaching the shoulder or the commissure of the jaws; the 

 tarso-metatarsal articulation reaches the eye ; tibia l / 3 to 2 / 5 

 the length from snout to vent; foot a little shorter than 

 the tibia. 



Skin of upper parts smooth or with a few scattered warts; 

 adult with calcareous deposits on the head and anterior part 

 of the back, which may completely fuse with the skull, and 

 form a shield on the praesacral part of the body; a narrow 

 ridge from eye to shoulder, sometimes continued on the side 

 of the body; usually a similar ridge along each side of the 

 back, from behind the head to the sacral region; in young 

 specimens two ridges, forming a V, on the head, the tips of 

 the V being placed on the extremities of the upper eyelid; 

 head usually defined behind by a more or less distinct trans- 

 verse groove; often one to three subcorneal tubercles on the 

 scapular region, one or two other ones in the middle of the 

 sacral region, and sometimes a few ones on the head and the 

 sides of the body; upper eyelid produced into a long trian- 

 gular process, which may be as long as the eye in the adult, 

 but is often shorter; a similar, but shorter appendage on the 



