or eleven lower labials; mental triangular, more broad than long; 

 two pair of chin-shields, median largest and forming a suture 

 behind the mental. Gular scales minute. Body covered above 

 with small granules intermixed with small roundish, feebly 

 keeled tubercles; lateral fold very indistinct. Ventral scales 

 very small, cycloid, imbricate, smooth, 40 — 45 across the middle 

 of the belly. No praeanal or femoral pores; the lower surface 

 of the thighs in both sexes covered with uniform granules 

 without any enlarged scales. Tail round, tapering, covered 

 with uniform, small, flat scales; a few enlarged, nail-shaped 

 tubercles form transverse series on the upper basal part of 

 the tail. Limbs long; digits strong, slightly depressed at the 

 base, strongly compressed in the distal part; the basal phalanx 

 with transverse plates inferiorly. 



Pale brown above, with small darker spots and V- or M-shaped 

 cross bands on the back; a dark temporal streak, beginning at 

 the eye. Tail with dark annuli. Lower parts brownish. Length 

 of head and body 63 mm.; tail (reproduced) 52 mm. 



Habitat: Celebes (Masarang, Buol, Wankahulu VaUey, 

 Luhu!, Kema, Rumbi-Mengkoka); Kabaena. 



4. Gymnodactylus sermowaiensis n. sp. 



Head large, broader than the body; snout longer than the 

 diameter of the orbit, which equals its distance from the ear- 

 opening; forehead and lores concave; ear-opening oval, ver- 

 tical, about one third the diameter of the eye. Head granular, 

 the granules enlarged on the snout, with few very small 

 tubercles on the temples. Rostral very large, twice as broad 

 as high, subquadrangular, with median cleft above; a supra- 

 nasal, separated from its fellow by two small shields, one 

 over the other; nostril bordered by the rostral, the supra- 

 nasal, the first labial and two small shields. Fourteen upper 

 and twelve lower labials; mental triangular, a pair of larger 

 chin-shields forming a suture behind the mental, and a smaller 

 shield on each side. Throat with very small granules. Body long 

 and slender, covered above with small granules and small 

 flat, roundish, feebly keeled tubercles. Lateral fold with slightly 

 enlarged tubercles. Ventral scales small, cycloid, imbricate, 

 smooth, 45 across the middle of the belly. No praeanal or 

 femoral pores; the lower surface of the thighs covered with 



