1908.] batrachians op the genus megalophrys. 425 



11. Megalophrys boulbngeri, 



Lepiohrachiutn houlengeri Becliiaga, Przewalski Exped., Ampli. 

 p. 63, pi. i. fig. 7 (1898). 



Tongue entire behind. Vomerine teeth absent. Head mode- 

 rate, little broader than long ; snout rounded, scarcely projecting 

 beyond lower jaw, about as long as orbit ; canthus rostralis dis- 

 tinct ; loreal region oblique, feebly concave ; nostril nearly eqiially 

 distant from end of snout and from eye ; interorbital space a 

 little broader than upper eyelid ; tympanum hidden. Fingers 

 obtuse, not swollen at the end, first and second equal ; no distinct 

 subarticular tubercles ; two moderately large carpal tubercles. 

 Toes rather short, blunt, half -webbed, the web existing as a fringe 

 to the tips ; no distinct subarticular tubercles ; inner metatarsal 

 tvibercles small, oval, feebly pi-ominent. Tibio-tarsal articulation 

 reaching the temple ; tibia about -g- length from snout to vent ; 

 foot longer than head. Upper parts warty, the warts of unequal 

 size ; a strong glandular fold from eye to shoulder ; lower parts 

 smooth, except posterior part of belly, which is granulate. Light 

 greenish grey above, with an ill-defined olive-brown vertebral 

 band which expands into two branches between the eyes ; some 

 of the larger warts also olive- brown ; a dark canthal and temporal 

 streak ; lower parts yellowish. 



From snout to vent 49 millim. 



Length of head 14 ,, 



Width of head 15 „ 



Length of snout 6 ,, 



Diameter of eye 4| „ 



Interorbital width 4 ,, 



Forelimb 29 „ 



Hind limb 58 „ 



Tibia 16 „ 



Foot 19 „ 



Dy-Ohu River, Upper Yangtse Kiang, China. — Types in St. 

 Petersburg Museum. 



12. Megalophrys hasseltii. (Plate XXV. fig. 3.) 



Leptohrachmm hasseltii Tschudi, Class. Batr. p. 81 (1838); 

 Giinth. Cat. Batr. Sal. p. 36 (1858); Bouleng. Cat. Batr. Ecaud. 

 p. 441 (1882), Zool. Bee. 1885, Rept. p. 24, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1890, p. 37, and Faun. Ind., Kept. p. 511 (1890); Isenschmid, 

 Mitth. Nat. Ges. Bern, 1903, p. 20; Van Kampen, Zool. Jahrb., 

 Syst. xxii. 1905, p. 712. 



Rana hasseltii Schleg. Handl. Dierk. ii. p. 56, pi. iv. fig. 71 

 (1858). 



Leptobrachium montanum Fischer, Arch. f. Nat. li. 1885, p. 44. 



Tongue nicked behind. Vomerine teeth absent. Head large, 

 about once and 5 as broad as long ; snout rounded, not projecting 

 beyond lower jaw, about as long as orbit ; canthus rostralis 



