TWO NEW SPECIES OF TOADS FROM THE PHILIPPINES. 



By Leonhard Stejneger, 



C^imtnr, Division of Reptiles and Batrachians, U. S. National Museum. 



Amono; the batracliians collected by Dr. E. A. jMearns in the Philip- 

 pines there are two small en.o;ystomi(l toads which a])parently belong; 

 to the genera Kalophrynus and PJmjnixalus, the latter hitherto not 

 known from the archipelago. 



The type speciesof Plirymxalus is said to have asharp, doubly-arched 

 ridge across the ]>alate formed by the palatine bones, but I do not 

 feel justified in forming a new genus on the absence of this character 

 in the Philippine s]>ecies, as it may be due to the age of the specimen. 

 The shape of the pupil is almost round, l)ut in one eye it is more nearly 

 elliptic in shape with the longer axis horizontal. In all other respects 

 it agrees with the original diagnosis of the genus. Even the " Ixalus- 

 like habitus" is very pronounced and before I had examined the inte- 

 rior of the mouth and the underside of the digits I suspected that I 

 had an imdescrilied species of Cormifer before me. 



The genus Kalophrynus has been diagnosed as possessing "a den- 

 ticulated dermal ridge across the palate between the choana^, and 

 another in front of the oesophagus." This characteristic was evi- 

 dently drawn up from specimens of Kalophrynus pleurostigma only, 

 and the fact that the dermal ridges are somewhat differently arranged 

 in the species to be described below does not seem to necessitate the 

 establishment of a new genus for its reception. As it has a perfect, 

 though slender, precoracoid parallel with the broad coracoid, and in 

 other respects also conforms to the characters assigned to Kalophry- 

 nus, its reference to that genus seems warranted. 



PHRYNIXALUS ANULATUS, new species. 



Diagnosis. — Toes entirely free; first finger very much shorter than 

 second, onl}^ slightly dilated at tip; interorbital space nearly twice as 

 wide as upper eyelid; tympanum about half the diameter of eye. 



Habitat. — Mindanao, Philippine Islands. 



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