188 Mr. G. A. Bouleiiger o?i (( 



Anal II G. Pectoral extendinjij i-} of tlie dislance from it 

 Lase to tlie base of ventrals. Veutrals O-rayed, extending to 

 llie origin of anal. Caudal emarginate. Caudal ])cduncle 

 slender, 3^ as long as deep, its length f the lengtii of head. 

 Greyish, with irregular dark spots on head, body, and fins. 



A single specimen, 125 mm. in total length. 



Allied to A^. ladacensis, Giinth. 



XV. — Description of a neiv Jiatrnchian of the Genus 

 Bombinator/ro??i Yunnan. By G. A. Boulengeu, F.R.S. 



[Plate XIII.] 



Only three species of Bomlinator were previouslv known — 

 7i. itjneus^ Laur., and B, paclnipus, Bp., from Europe, and 

 B. orientalis, Blgr., from Alarchuria, Corea, and Northern 

 China. To my great surprise and gratification a small series 

 of Batrachians collected by Mr. John Graham near Tong 

 Chuan Fu in Yunnan (altitude about GOOO feet), which has 

 just reached the British Museum, contained three examples 

 of a fourth species, remarkable for its large size and as greatly 

 extending the known range of this genus and also of the 

 small family, Discoglossidte, to which it belongs. For this 

 new species I propose tlie name 



Bonihinator maximus. (PI. XIII.) 

 Vomerine teeth in two small groups or short transverse 

 series close together behind the level of thechoaucc. Tongue 

 large, circular, scarcely free at the sides and behind. Head 

 broader than long; snout rounded, not quite as long as the 

 diameter of the orbit; no canthus rostnilis ; nostril equally 

 distant from the eye and the tip of the snout ; interorbital 

 space narrower than the upper eyelid, nearly equal to the 

 distance between the nostrils. Fingers short, obtusely pointed, 

 first shortest, third longest, fourth a little longer than second ; 

 no subarticular tubercles ; two round palmar tubercles, inner 

 larger and more ])rominent. Tibio-tarsal articulation reaching 

 the shoulder, tarso-metatarsal articulation reaching the eye ; 

 tibia as long as the femur, the heels meeting when the legs 

 are folded at right angles to the rhachis ; foot as long as the 

 tibia ; toes short, obtuse, flattened, only half-webbed ; no 

 subarticular tubercles ; a small, rounded inner metatai"^al 

 tubercle. Upper parts covered withsmall wartsintermixedwith 

 very large glands studded with pores, similar to the parotoids of 

 toads ; the largest are situated behind the eyes (true j)arotoid.s), 

 on the tibia, on the tarsus, and on the back, where they 

 tbrm a ])air of curved or angular chains behind the head, with 



