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or marbled with darker on throat, breast and limbs; lips with 

 light, vertical streaks. Length 42 mm. 



Male with a subgular vocal sac. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Katow ; Merauke !) ; Frederik 

 Hendrik isl. ! 



3. Crinia Tschudi. 



(Tschudi, Mem. Soc. Sc. nat. Neuchatel, II, 1839, p. 78). 



Pupil horizontal. Tongue entire and free behind. Upper jaw 

 toothed, lower toothless; vomerine teeth very slightly developed 

 or absent. Tympanum slightly distinct or hidden, or absent. 

 Fingers and toes free, the tips not dilated. Outer metatarsals 

 united. 



Omosternum and sternum cartilaginous. Diapophyses of 

 sacral vertebra slightly dilated. Terminal phalanges simple. 



Distribution: New Guinea; Australia. 



1. Crinia signifera Girard. 



Crinia {Ranidelhi) signifera Girard, Proc. Acad. Philadelphia, VI (1S52, 1853), 



1854, p. 422. 

 Crinia signifera Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., 1882, p. 265. 

 Crinia signifera Andersson, Svenska Vet. Akad. Handl., LII, N°. 4, 1913, p. 12, 



pi. I, figs. I a — /'. 

 Crinia signifera Werner, Amphibia, in: Fauna Siidwest-Australiens, herausg. v. 



Michaelsen und Hartmeyer, IV, Lfg. 10, Jena, 1914, p. 4 1 1 . 

 Crinia signifera Roux, Revue Suisse Zool., XXVIII, 1920, p. 1 16. 



No vomerine teeth. Snout rounded, as long as the orbit; 

 no canthus rostralis; loreal region oblique, a little concave; 

 nostril as far from the tip of the snout as from the eye; 

 interorbital space as broad as, or broader than the upper 

 eyelid; tympanum hidden. First finger shorter than second; 

 toes fringed; subarticular tubercles distinct; a small, elliptic, 

 inner and a rounded outer metatarsal tubercle; a slight tarsal 

 fold ; the heel reaches the shoulder or the temple. 



Upper surfaces more or less warty, the warts often confluent 

 into longitudinal lines on the back; lower surfaces granulate. 



Dark grey above ; two blackish, light bordered spots in the 

 loins; anal region blackish; lips with dark vertical bars; beneath 

 grey, more or less marbled with brown ; throat of male blackish; 

 limbs with more or less distinct dark cross-bars. Length 28 mm. 



Male with a subgular vocal sac. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Merauke). — Australia. 



