584. Miss Joan B. Procter on a new Toad. 
Uniform greyish brown above; warts darker ; lighter 
beneath. 
A single female specimen, caught in the Kharta Valley, 
Tibet ; altitude 16,500 feet. 
The stomach was entirely full of black weevils of the 
family Curculionide. According to Dr. Marshall, who has 
Foot of Cophophryne alticola. x 13. 
examined these specimens, new species of Lleleronyx and 
Dactylotus ave present ; but, as they are partially digested, 
their condition is not good enough to admit of their being 
described. 
On examining all the specimens of Cophophryne sikkimenses 
and Aelurophryne mammata in the British Museum, it is 
now clear that they are not generically distinct. The tongue, 
which is described as nicked in the former and entire in “the 
latter, may be very slightly nicked or entire in either species, 
and the éustachian tubes are vestigial and the tympanum 
absent in both (vide text-fig. 2). The reason why these 
orifices appear larger in Giinther’s specimens of “ Bufo 
mammata,’ the types of the species on which the genus 
Aelurophryne was founded, is that these specimens are in an 
advanced state of decomposition, and the bony openings are 
therefore no longer padded and obscured by the usual buccal 
linings. The choane, on the other hand, are’ somewhat 
larger in A, mammata than in C. sikkimensis or C. allacola, 
