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Diagnostic characters: the main distmguishing differences of this new species from 

 the similar species M. lateralis (Anderson) are: snout pointed; big swollen bean-like gland 

 at the posterior part of supratympanic fold; many large warts on side of body; toes with 

 wide fringes; mimerous large, dark spots on posterior part of belly and ventral part of 

 thighs; nasals in contact with sphenethmoid; squamosal separated from frontoparietal, 

 prootic on dorsal part entering the orbit. In comparison, in M. lateralis; snout short and 

 rounded; no bean-like gland on posterior part of supratympanic fold; small warts on side 

 of body; toes with narrow fringes; no spots on posterior part of belly and venfral part of 

 thighs; nasal not in contact with sphenethmoid; squamosal in contact with frontoparietal, 

 prootic on dorsal part not entering the orbit. 



Description of morphology: male body length 76.3-81mm, female 76.5-99.5mm. 

 head flattened, head width slightly larger than head length, snout shield-like, narrow and 

 pointed, obviously extending over mandible; canthus rosfralis very distinct, loreal region 

 almost vertical, slightly concave; tympanum distinct; large tongue, pear-shaped, posterior 

 end slightly notched; vomerine ridge very distinct, inclined medially, 3-A teeth at end of 

 ridge. 



Finger tips ball-like, second finger shorter than first and fourth fingers; no 

 subarticular tubercles, inner metacarpal slightly distinct. Hindlimb long, tibio-tarsal 

 articulation extends anterior to nostril up to tip of snout, right and left heels overlapping, 

 tibia length greater than half of body length; fmger tip and toe tip same; third toe slightly 

 longer than fifth toe; toe with very wide fringe (narrow in female), base of toes with 

 rudimentary web; no subarticular tubercles, inner metatarsal tubercles flatten, a little 

 distinct, no outer metatarsal tubercles. 



Dorsal skin smooth, more small warts on head and shoulder, less on anterior part 

 of dorsal body, big granules between shoulders forms narrow skin ridge in the shape of a 

 "V"; several distinct small granules on posterior body; both sides of body bear a 

 longitudinal skin ridge formed by small warts. Big warts on lateral body, roughly over ten 

 on each side, small warts dispersed among them; extemal fringe of upper eyelid bears a 

 undistinguished horn; supratympanic fold long, straight and flat anteriorly, curving over 

 the tympanum extending to the shoulder, and gradually expanded, terminating in a 

 bean-like gland; upper and lower lip margins, temporal region, and tympanum all bear a 

 few small tubercles; edge of upper lip bears small saw tooth-like papillae; dorsal part of 

 fore limbs bear a few small tubercles. Entire ventral skin smooth, a pair of axillary glands 

 located on the chest laterally, very small, distinctly smaller than width of fmger tip; round 

 warts at posterior femur are very obvious; femoral gland round, larger than width of toe 

 tip. 



Secondary sex characteristics: male has brown black nuptial pads on first and 

 second fingers, and an internal single subgular vocal sac, opening of vocal sac is long and 

 interrupted. 



