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MR. F. E. BEDDARD ON THE ANATOMY 



[Apr. 9, 



M. nasuta than in M. montana. In the example studied by 

 myself, the calcified (?) area formed a continuous plate beginning 

 immediately behind the head, but not continuous with the 

 hardened skin lying over the head, reaching back rather beyond 

 the anterior ends of the ilia. Laterally this area is bounded 

 by a raised glandular fold. On the ventral side of this fold the 

 skin is still hardened, though not so much as dorsally ; and this 

 area is again bounded by a narrow raised area quite similar to 

 that just referred to, which separates it from the soft but tuber- 

 cular skin of the belly. The inner finger is distinctly longer 

 than the second, a character in which this species agrees with 

 M. loQigipes* rather than M. motttanaf. 



It is part of the generic definition of Megalophrys according 

 to Mr. Boulenger that the outer metatarsals are united. In 



Text-fig. 92. 



Palmar surface of hand (upper figure) and foot (lov\'er figure) of 

 Megalophrys nasuta. 



this it difi"ers, according to the same author, from e. g. Pelohates, 

 where the " outer metataisals are separated by web." Having 

 been able to compare my Frog with Felohates fuscus, I find that 



Boulenger, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 850. 



t Id., Cat. Batr. Sal. p. 442. 



