Miss Jocin B. Procter on a new Toad. 583 



LXIX. — On a neio Toad, Coplioplnyne alticola, collecttd 

 uu the Mt. Everest litcontKiissance I'J.vpedltion, VJ21. Jiy 

 Joan B. Procter, F.Z.S. 



Three species representing ]lo|>tiIiji and Batracliia were 

 collectfd hy Dr. A. F. K. Wolluston on the Mt. Everest 

 Reconnaissance Expedition — specimens of the Againoid 

 lizai'il rhrynocephalus iheobiddi, the frog liana [Nanorana) 

 2>leskel, and a new and interesting load of the genus Copho- 

 />hri/nf. All were met with at altitudes of 14,000 to 17,000 

 teet, and possess the degenerate ears adapted to these heights, 

 the tympanum being eitiier hidilen beneath thick skin or 

 absent alt(jgether. 



The new species of Cophophryne may be easily distin- 

 guished from C. silkimeusis, BIyth, to which it is closely 

 allied, by the fact that the toes are fully webbed instead of 

 nearly free. It is (ifsciibed from a single female specimen, 

 somewhat shrivelled up — in this case a useful condition, 

 however, revealing the immensely dilated sacral diapophyses 

 and strongly curved praicoracoids, so suggestive of Pelohatesj 

 which the genus so closely resembles. 



Cophophryne alticohi, sp, n. 



Habit as in C. sikkimensis, Blyth. 



Head moderate, broadir than long, depressed ; snout 

 rounded ; canfhus rostralis rounded, loreal region very 

 oblique ; nostiils small, near tip of snout ; interorbital s))ace 

 about as i)road as upper eyelid ; no tyni})anum, eustachian 

 tubes vestigial. 



r ingers nioderate, first and second subequal ; third about 

 once and a half length of snout. 



Hind limb niodeiate, tibio-tarsal articulation reaching 

 j.osterior corner of eye ; tibia goes twice and three-filths 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, 

 and penultimate ot 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 

 fuld or paratoid behind each eye. Abdomen granular; 

 throat and chest smooth ; mammic-like glands, one on each 

 side of chest. 



