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According to Mocqnard’s key this species would appear to be related 
to B. liber , Per. ; through the kindness of the authorities of the Turin 
Museum we have been able to examine a cotype specimen of this species, 
and we can say without hesitation that our own is quite distinct. We may 
say, further, that our species is different from any species of Bhacophorus 
known to us, as is evident from the presence of the distinctive cutaneous 
fold on the side of the body and on the limbs a character as far as we 
know which is not found in any other Malagasy member of the genus. 
We have examined the cliapophyses of the sacral vertebrae and 
the sternal apparatus, both of which we find to be typical for the genus. 
Type, No. 1100, in the Transvaal Museum. 
We have much pleasure in naming this species after M. Aglave, the 
Administrator of the Province of Andevoranto, in Madagascar. 
Genus nov. Microphryne. 
Diagnosis. — No vomerine teeth : digits with supernumerary phalanx : 
terminal phalanges bifurcated : outer metatarsals united : sternum and 
omosternum long and bony : pupil horizontal. Tongue rather small, bifid 
behind : basal attachment extensive, free for only a short distance behind. 
Related to Bhacophorus , bat separated therefrom by (1) the absence 
of vomerine teeth, (2) the united outer metatarsals, (3) the complete 
absence of webbing of the toes. 
M. MALAGASIA, sp. nov. A single specimen from Folohy, collected 
by M. Herschell-Chauvin. 
Description. — Head large, slightly depressed: about as broad as long: 
snout acutely rounded: canthus rostral is slightly incurved, but not sharply 
defined : nostril prominent nearer the tip of the snout than the eye. The 
loreal region oblique and concave. Eye moderately large. Interorbital 
space about equal to the distance between the nostril and the orbit. 
Tympanum small, scarcely half the diameter of the eye. Fingers entirely 
free, slender, dilated into discs, those of the first and second fingers of 
small size, those of the third and fourth of moderate size and of sub- 
triangular form. First finger distinctly shorter than the second : fourth 
extending further than the second. Subarticular tubercles prominent : 
the palms with a few small tubercles, and two large metacarpel tubercles 
’near the wrist, and proximally to these a single smaller prominent tubercle ; 
there is also a large elongated tubercle at the base of the first finger in a line 
with the two large metacarpel tubercles just described. Toes free, their tips 
only slightly dilated. A prominent elliptic inner metatarsal tubercle : a 
single small outer metatarsal tubercle, and in a line with this three 
distantly placed tubercles along the inferior surface of the tarsus, the first 
of the series being adjacent to this outer metatarsal tubercle. 
Tibio-tarsal joint of adpressed hind limb reaches a little beyond the 
tip of the snout. 
Skin : upper surface entirely covered with numerous warts of varying 
size and shape : in places, on the outer side of the forearm and thigh, at 
the angle of the mouth, and on the flanks, these tubercles have subspinose 
prominences. Below, belly and thighs granular : throat smooth. 
Near the base of each thigh is a large glandular swelling, double on 
one side : since these swellings have apparently no pores, they may prove 
to be merely abnormal. 
Colour in spirits : upper surfaces fuscous : whole of ventral surface 
pale: limbs obscurely cross-barred: hinder surface of the thighs and tibiae 
