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slender, cylindrical, with scarcely enlarged discs. First finger 

 very small, much shorter than second. A small oval metacarple 

 tubercle. Hind limb moderate, thigh large. Toes long and 

 slender, cylindrical, with small, not enlarged discs. Metatarsal 

 tubercle absent. The length of the out- 

 stretched limb, from the anus to the tibio- 

 tarsal articulation, equals the distance 

 between the anus and the anterior border 

 of the eye. Skin smooth. 



Colour (spirits). — Pinkish-brown above, 

 with sparsely distributed dark brown spots 

 on the legs and sides of the body. An 

 indistinct inguinal spot present. A dark 

 brown hand starts at the nostril, passes 

 through the eye and continues to the 

 shoulder. Under-surfaces pale brownish, 

 with faint brown reticulations and spots. 



Total length, from snout to vent, 17 mm. 



This species is distinguished from both 

 the preceding by the produced snout, the 

 more median situation of the nostril, the 



hidden tympanum, the longer toes and smaller discs, and the 



more slender habit. 



Loc. — A single specimen, collected for the Trustees of the 

 Australian Museum by Messrs. C. Hedley and A. R. McCulloch 

 at Somerset, Cape York, North Queensland, in October 1907. 



Type. — In the Australian Museum, Sydney. 



Although abundantly represented in New Guinea the family 

 Engystomatidse has not previously been recorded from the 

 Australian continent. New Guinea, whose original stock of 

 Engystomatidse is of Oriental origin, is credited with thirty-one 

 species representative of thirteen genera, showing it to be a 

 country highly favourable to these termite-eating frogs. 



During the past connection of Cape York Peninsula to Papua 

 a considerable migration took place, whose influence on the 

 northern and eastern coasts of Australia has resulted in t lie 

 recognition of a distinct sub-region, the Papuan Sub-region of 

 Mr. C. Hedley 4 , or as later named by Professor W. P>. Spencer 6 , 



* Hedley— I'roc. Austr. Assoc. Adv. Sci., v., 1S93, p. 444. 



r ' Spencer — Kept. Horn. Sci. Exp., Summary, i., ls<)6*, p. 172. 



