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LXIX.—On a new Toad, Cophophryne alticola, collected 
on the Mt. Everest Reconnaissance Expedition, 1921. By 
JOAN B. Procrer, F.Z.8. 
THREE species representing Reptilia and Batrachia were 
collected by Dr. A. F. R. Wollaston on the Mt. Everest 
Reconnaissance Expedition—specimens of the Agamoid 
lizard Phrynocephalus theobaldi, the frog Rana (Nanorana) 
pleskei, and a new and interesting toad of the genus Copho- 
phryne, All were met with at altitudes of 14,000 to 17,000 
feet, and possess the degenerate ears adapted to these heights, 
the tympanum being either hidden beneath thick skin or 
absent altogether. 
The new species of Cophophryne may be easily distin- 
guished from C. sthkimensis, Blyth, to which it is closely 
allied, by the fact that the toes are fully webbed instead of 
nearly free. It is described from a single female specimen, 
somewhat shrivelled up—in this case a useful condition, 
however, revealing the immensely dilated sacral diapophyses 
and strongly curved precoracoids, so suggestive of Pelobates, 
which the genus so closely resembles. 
Cophophryne alticola, sp. n. 
Habit as in C. stkkimensts, Blyth. 
Head moderate, broader than long, depressed; snout 
rounded ; canthus rostralis rounded, loreal region very 
oblique ; nostrils small, near tip of snout; interorbital space 
about as broad as upper eyelid ; no tympanum, eustachian 
tubes vestigial. 
lingers moderate, first and second subequal ; third about 
once and a half length of snout. 
Hind limb moderate, tibio-tarsal articulation reaching 
posterior corner of eye ; tibia goes twice and three-fifths in 
total length, and is about three and a half times as long as 
broad ; toes moderate, with narrow webs reaching the tips of 
first and second toe, base of distal phalanx of third and fifth, 
aud penultimate of fourth ; subarticular tubercles absent ; 
a very small oval inner metatarsal tubercle; tarsal fold 
absent (?) (vide text-fig. 1). 
Skin covered with small roundish porous warts, arranged 
in irregular longitudinal series. Narrow indistinct glandular 
fold or paratoid behind each eye. Abdomen granular; 
throat and chest smooth ; mamme-like glands, one on each 
side of chest. 
