184 owe ah CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES [Proc. 47TH SER. 
Pachypalaminus boulengeri new species 
Type—No. 33192 California Academy of Sciences; male; Odaigahara 
Mt., Yamato Province, Honshu, Japan; October, 1911. 
Specific Characters—Head large, depressed, and as broad as long; 
snout long and rounded; nostril situated a trifle nearer to the orbit than 
to the tip of the snout; eyes rather large and prominent; orbit contained 
one and one third times in the length of the snout. Series of palatine 
teeth interrupted, not forming a reéntrant angle; apices of the two salient 
angles on a line with the centers of the choane; the length of the inner 
side of one of the angles equal to the interval between the choanz; the 
length of the outer side equal to one third this interval. Tongue circular, 
strong and fleshy, filling the floor of the mouth, the surface finely and 
longitudinally plicate; two fairly deep sulci with a general antero-pos- 
terior trend, their outline that of two laterally directed obtuse angles, 
enclosing about one half the central area of the tongue. The gular fold 
moderately developed, Body depressed ; distance from the snout to the 
gular fold contained nearly three times in the distance from the latter to 
the cloaca; median dorsal groove, markedly deepened over the pectoral 
and pelvic regions; thirteen well developed costal folds, including the one 
flexed to enter the axilla and the one reaching the groin; the nine mid- 
dle folds continued across the abdomen. Vent (of male) three slits meet- 
ing in front, the medium longitudinal and longest, the two others 
obliquely directed forwards, forming an angle; the borders swollen. 
Limbs stout, when adpressed the digits overlap for about two milli- 
meters. Digits well developed. Tail a trifle longer than the distance 
from the gular fold to the cloaca, strongly compressed, deepened and 
fleshy in the posterior thalf; not keeled; the tip rounded. Skin smooth; 
numerous mucous glands on snout, around nostrils and eyes, and on 
upper and lower lips; parotids distinct; an irregular horizontal groove 
from eye to gular fold, joined by a short vertical one posterior to 
angle of mouth. Color in spirits slate, a trifle paler beneath. 
MEASUREMENTS (in millimeters) 
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From snout to level of centre of insertion OfMfore limb sae seeeee 35 
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