. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. 584 Miss Joan B. Procter on a new Toad. Uniform greyish brown above ; warts darker ; lighter beneath. A single female specimen, caught in the Kharta Valley, Tibet ; altitude 16,500 feet. The stomach was entirely full of black weevils of the family Curculionidse. According to Dr. Marshall, who has Fig. Foot of Cophophryne alticola. X l^. examined these s])ecimens, new species of Iltleronyx and Dactylotus are present ; but, as they are partially digested, their condition is
. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. 584 Miss Joan B. Procter on a new Toad. Uniform greyish brown above ; warts darker ; lighter beneath. A single female specimen, caught in the Kharta Valley, Tibet ; altitude 16,500 feet. The stomach was entirely full of black weevils of the family Curculionidse. According to Dr. Marshall, who has Fig. Foot of Cophophryne alticola. X l^. examined these s])ecimens, new species of Iltleronyx and Dactylotus are present ; but, as they are partially digested, their condition is not good enough to admit of their being described. On examining all the specimens of Cophophrijne sikkimensis and Aelurophryne mamviata in the British Museum, it is now clear that they are not generically distinct. The tongue, which is described as nicked in the former and entire in the latter, may be very slightly nicked or entire in either species, and the eustachian tubes are vestigial and the tympanum absent in both {vide text-fig. 2). The reason why these orifices a))pear larger in Gunther's specimens of " Bafo niammata,'^ the types of the S[)ecies on which the genus Aeluropliryne was founded, is that these specimens are in an advanced state of decomposition, and the bony openings are therefore no lunger padded and obscured by the usual buccal linings. The ehoana', on the other hand, are somewhat larger in ^J. vuunmata than in C. sikkimentsls or C. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original London, Taylor and Francis, Ltd
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