Vol. XVII, pp. 51-52 March 10, 1904 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



|UJ_L_I_E 



A NEW BATRACHIAN FROM SARAWAK, BORNEO. 

 BY THOMAS BARBOUP. 



Among a small collection of Batrachians taken in Sarawak, Borneo, 

 by Mr. ^V. T. Hornaday, there are two specimens of an apparently un- 



(lescribed species of toad. This species is nearly related to Necles subasper 

 Tschudi, from Java. 



Nectes obscurus sp. nov. 



Differmg from X. subasper in the size of the tympanum ; the size of the 

 nostrils; the width of the upper eyelid ; and in the distinctness of the 

 metatarsal tubercles. 



Head rather small ; snout oblique and obtusely angular; nostrils very 

 small, opening upward and slightly outward ; upper eyelid wide ; space 

 between the eyes rather broad ; tympanum distinct but small, less than 

 one-half the diameter of the eye ; fingers slender, the first a very little 

 shorter than the second ; toes long and slender, united by a rather nar- 

 row membrane; subarticnlar tubercles distinct; two large metatarsal 

 tubercles. When the hind limb is carried forward along the body, the 

 tarso-metatarsal articulation reaches a considerable distance beyond the 

 tip of the snout. Upper surfaces and sides covered with round and con- 

 ical warts of unequal size, the largest evidently porous and arranged in 

 two irregular lines on the dorsal surface. The lower surfaces are cov- 

 ered with rather fine granules of unequal size. 



Color (alcoholic specimens), olivaceous above, lighter below ; the hind 

 legs banded and mottled with a darker color. 



Type Xo. 2.396, Barbour collection, Museum of Comparative Zoology, 

 Cambridge, Mass. 



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