1907.] 



ANATOMY OF THE PELOBATID^. 



907 



* i.e. to the feel when the frog is handled. 



An analysis of this table shows that in the fourteen characters 

 selected, Xenophrys is peculiar in only two characters ; that it 

 agrees with Leptohrachmm, and Megalophrys montana in four 

 points ; with Leptobracliium alone in no characters, and with 

 Megalophrys m,ontana aloue in four characters. Of the remaining 

 four characters, Xenophrys agrees with Megalofhrys and M. mon- 

 tana in three. Leptobrachiimi is peculiar in foru" characters ; 

 it agrees with Xenop)hrys and Megalophrys m^ontana in four 

 characters, and with Xenophrys alone in none. With Megalophrys 

 nasuta, Lepiobrachium agrees in two characters. In short, the 

 cross-likenesses and differences between these several types are 

 such that no combination between any two or three of them as 

 against two or one is possible. It shows with peculiar emphasis 

 Proc. Zool. Soc— 1907, ^o. LXI. 61 



