268 BuroNiD^. 



Genus NECTOPHRYNE. 

 Biichh. & Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1875, p. 202. 



Pupil horizontal. Tongue elliptical, entire and free behind. 

 Tympanum distinct or hidden. Fingers and toes webbed, tlie tips 

 dilated into disks. Outer metatarsals united. No omosternum ; 

 sternum cartilaginous. 



Tropical Africa, Seychelles, India, and Malay Peninsula and 

 Archipelago. Two species in the Malay Peninsula : — 



Inner finger rudimentary ; no tarsal fold N. guentheri, p. 268. 



Inner finger well developed ; a tarsal fold N. hosil, p. 268. 



2S6. Nectophryne guentheri. 



Bouleng. Cat. Batr. Ecaud. p. 280 (1882) ; S. Flower, P. Z. S. 1896, 

 p. 910 ; A. L. Butler, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Bombay, xv, p. 394 

 (1904) ; Poux, P. Z. S. 1906, i, p. 62. 



Habit slender. Head small ; snout obliquely truncate ; loreal 

 region vertical ; interorbital space broader than the upper eyelid ; 

 tympanum very distinct, f to | diameter of eye. Fore limb very 

 slender. Fingers moderate, much depressed, 5 webbed, the web 

 extending as a margin to the tips, which are broad and truncate ; 

 first finger rudimentary, hardly half as long as second ; toes rather 

 short, the web extending to the tips, but deeply emarginate ; the 

 tips dilated like those of the fingers ; subarticular tubercles small ; 

 two small, flat metatarsal tubercles ; no tarsal fold. The tarso- 

 metatarsal articulation reaches the tip of the snout or beyond. 

 Skin covered with small tubercles. Olive-brown above, spotted 

 Avith yellow and blackish ; lower parts yellowish, throat and belly 

 spotted with brown or blackish. 



From snout to vent 30 niillim. 



Known from Borneo, the IN'atuna Islands, Bukit Timah, 

 Singapore, where several specimens have been found by Mr. H. N. 

 Eidley and Capt. Flo\\ er, and the lo\\ er hills of Selangor, where 

 it is by no means uncommon. 



287. Nectophryne hosii. 



Bouleno-. P. Z. S. 1892, p. 508, pi. xxx, fig. 2 ; Robinson. Journ. 

 Fed.'^Malay States Mus. i, p. 19 (1905) ; Roux, P.Z.S. 1906, i, 

 p. 59, pi. ii, fig. J . 



Habit stout, but limbs rather thin. Head concave above; 

 snout truncate; loreal region slightly oblique, concave; inter- 

 orbital space twice as broad as the upper eyelid ; .tympanum very 

 distinct, about half the diameter of the eye. Fingers moderate. 



