1907.] 



ANATOMY OF THE PELOBATID^E. 



879 



paid is a patch of glands upon the thigh *. These are really not 

 clear until the skin has been removed from the subjacent muscles 



Text-fig. 230. 



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A. The thigh (upper fig-nve) and detached fragment of skin more highlj^ magnified 

 (lower li"-ure) of Xenoplirys monticola, to show the " thigh-gland." In the 

 upper tisure the dand is shown as a large white patch with a tew isolated 

 and scattered glands near it. In the lower figure the composition t the gland 

 from a number of a2;gregated simple glands is shown. It is here seen from 

 the lower surface.— B. Corresponding parts of Megalophrys nasuta of the 

 same proportional size. 



and then inspected upon its lower surface. That is to say, the 

 individual glands are not clear, for the patch as a whole is marked 



* Mr. 



Mr Boulenger, in his more recent definition of Xenophrys monticola (Reptilia 

 and Batrachia in ' The Fauna of British India/ 1890, p. 510), does not refer to the 

 gland-patch on each thigh. 



