1908.] BATKACHIANS OP THE GENUS MEGALOPHRYS. 419 



2 . Hgr. 



Width of head 43 21 millim. 



Length of snout 10 5 ,, 



Diameter of eye 10 5 „ 



Interorbital width 13 6 ,, 



Diameter of tympanum 4 2^ ,, 



Distance between eye and tympanum ... 10 5 ,, 



Foi-e limb 66 36 ,, 



Hand 27 14 „ 



Hind limb 165 85 „ 



Tibia 53 27 „ 



Foot 49 25 „ 



I_have examined five specimens, all from Darjeeling, collected by 

 Dr. J. Gammie, and preserved in the Calcutta Museum. I have 

 been allowed to retain one (here figured) for the British Museum. 



6. Megalophrys parva. 



Xenophrys monticola Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 414, pi. xxvi. 

 fig. H (1864). 



Xenophrys monticola^ part., Anders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, 

 p. 200 ; Bouleng. Cat. Batr. Ecaud. p. 441 (1882). 



Leptohrackhwm 'tnonticola, part., Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Genova, (2) 

 vii. 1889, p. 720, and Faun. Ind., Rept. p. 510 (1890). 



Leptohrachium parvum Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Genova, (2) xiii. 

 1893, p. 344, pi. xi. fig. 2. 



Tongue entire or feebly nicked behind. Vomerine teeth in 

 two small groups on a line with or just behind the posterior 

 borders of the choanse. Head moderate, 1 j to 1 g times as broad as 

 long ; snout obliquely truncate in profile, projecting beyond lower 

 jaw, nearly as long as eye ; canthus rostralis sharp ; loreal region 

 vertical, concave ; nostril equally distant from eye and from end 

 of snout ; interorbital space flat, as broad as upper eyelid ; tym- 

 panum more or less distinct, f to |- diameter of eye, the distance 

 between the two less than the diameter of the latter. Fingei-s 

 with feebly swollen tips, first as long as or a little shorter than 

 second, which measures about f length of third ; no subarticular 

 tubercles ; no distinct metacarpal tubercles. Toes rather short, 

 with feebly swollen tips, with a slight rudiment of web, often 

 with a feeble dermal ridge on the lower surface, but without sub- 

 ai'ticular tubercles ; metatarsal tubercle flat, indistinct. Tibio- 

 tarsal articulation reaching the eye or not quite so far ; tibia g or 

 a little less than ^ length from snout to vent ; foot shorter than 

 tibia. Skin of upper parts smooth or granular, with small 

 glandular warts which may form symmetrical ridges, very variable 

 in arrangement ; a strong glandular fold from the eye to the 

 shoulder ; lower parts perfectly smooth. Brownish above, with 

 more or less distinct darker symmetrical markings, the most 

 constant of which forms a triangle or a Y between the eyes ; some 

 of the warts edged with blackish ; upper lip with vertical dark 



