240 HYLA GENIMACULATA. 



the snout. Skin with scattered , small tubercles on the 

 back and around the vent; belly and underside of thighs 

 granular; a fold across the breast. 



Colour : (spirit-specimens) above greyish-brown , varie- 

 gated with dark; on the head a rhomboidal spot, with 

 the anterior angle on the snout, the posterior on the nape , 

 the two laterals on the middle of the eyelids ; a faint light 

 transverse band behind the head; underside yellowish , with 

 brown dots along the border of the mouth. 



Length from snout to vent 55 m.m. 



Two specimens , an adult and a young one , from Am- 

 boina and one specimen fr-om Misool , collected by Hoedt. 



This species seems to agree with the australian Hyla gra- 

 cilenta Pet., in the development of the web between the 

 fingers. 



5. Hyla genimacidata n. s. 



Head nearly as broad as long , depressed , with the 

 snout oval , once and a half the diameter of the eye ; can- 

 thus rostralis angular; loreal region oblique, slightly con- 

 cave; interorbital space much broader than the upper eye- 

 lid; tympanum distinct, two thirds the diameter of the 

 orbit; an indistinct fold from the eye to the shoulder. 

 Tongue elliptical, free and very slightly nicked behind; 

 teeth on the level of the hind edge of the choanae , in 

 two oblique groups, converging posteriorly. Fingers half- 

 webbed , except the first , who is only webbed at the base ; 

 disks of the three external fingers about as large as the 

 tympanum ; toes broadly webbed , the membrane reaching 

 the disks at the outerside of the second and third , at the 

 innerside of the fifth toe , but the penultimate phalanx of 

 the first and fourth toe free; disks a little smaller than 

 those of the fingers. Hind limb being carried forwards 

 along the body , the heel reaches beyond the tip of the 

 snout. Skin with small warts above; those around the 

 vent and along the outer edge of forearm and tarsus 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseuxu , "Vol. "V. 



