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Aelurophryne glandulata sp. nov.
Tgpe.—No. 49392 Chicago Natural History Museum, from Hopachai, Lifanhsien, Szechwan, China, altitude 8,500 feet. Adult male, collected August 9,1941, by H. C. Chang.
Diagnosis.—An Aelurophrgne (pl. 4,fig.6) with a long foot, nearly 51 per cent of the body length; foot rugose beneath;tibio-tarsa l articulation reach-ing the shoulder region; the inner two toes more than two-thirds webbed, the third and tifth toes about one- half webbed; chest without strong spines,large, elongate oval, diverging posteriorly; axillary glands ling and prominent, the anteriot third of theit inner borders in contact with the chest glands; pre-humeral glandulararea distinctly devloped.
Description of tgpe.—Body stout; head depressed, slightly broader thanlong; snout rounded, slightly projecting beyond the mouth and much longer than the length of the eye; canthus rostralis obtuse; loreal region very oblique, only slightly concave; nostrils about mid-way between the tip of the snout and the anterior corner of the eye; interorbiral apace wider than the distance berween the nostrils, and broader than the width of the upper eyelid; tymanum hidden; jaws weak, without teeth; tongue oval, slightly emarginate behind; no vomerine teeth; no vocal asc.
Arm strong; fingers (fig.23, A ) slender and long, first and second equal, thicker, and shorter than third and fourth, the third finger the longest; nuptial spines developed on inner dorsal sides of the first and second fingers; tips of fingers lighter in color; subarticular tubercles present but not differentiates from other tubercles on the fingers, much as in the Chinese common toad; palmar tuberces large and peominent, the inner larger larger and flat, the outer much smaller; palm rugose with small warts.Hind limb short and weak, its length about 142 per cent of the body length;tibio-tarsal atyiculation reachingj the shoulder region; tibia 42 per cent of the body length; foot (fig,23,B) longer than those of other species of Aelurophrophrgne, adout 51 per cent of the body length; toes prominently fringed; the two inner toes adout two-thirds webbed and the third and fifth toes about half webbed; tips of toes rounded, slightly dilated, lighter in color; subarticular tubercles present, but not distinct, like thise of the fingers; inner metatarsal tubercle well developed, elongated oval, with a free edge.
Skin rough, with flat, irregularly shaped and pitted warts on the back and rounded pitted ones on the sides of the sides of the body; numerous small warts without pits
FIG.24 . Aelurophrgne glandulata; male. Ventral view of ead and thoracic fegion (x 1).
scttered among the rounded warts, fewest on the back; the pitted warts dark brown in color; small warts on upper sides of limbs; a large, ill-defined, flattened parotoid gland behind the eye; a strong glandular fold at latero-ventral margin of each parotoid, extending obliquely to the base of the arm; many rounded light-colored warts behind and at the base of the thighs; skin of the throat,chest,belly and the ventral sides of the limbs smooth, except for glandular areas on the margin of the jaw(fig,24); two pairs of flattened glands on the chest, the inner pair oval, large, and flat, with fine black spines on some of the granules of the gland,16 mm. long, about 20 per cent of the body length; the lateral pair(the axillary glands) smaller, elongate oval and much more elevated than the chest glands; latero-dorsal to the chest gland ventro-anterior to the base of the arm,a definite area covered by thinner skin with scattered small warts; belly much wrinkled in the preserved specimen.