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Upper surface bluish violet, yellowish beneath; upper arm 

 and thigh yellowish white, except a small streak along the 

 upper surface ; of the same colour are the three inner fingers, 

 the tarsus and the foot, the tympanum and the border of the lips. 

 Length 66 mm. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Etna bay!; Setekwa riv.). 



2. Hyla amboinensis Horst. 



Hyla amboinensis Horst, Notes Leyden Mus., V, 1883, p. 239. 

 Hyla amboinensis Boettger, Ber. Offenb. Ver. f. Naturk., 1892, p. 156. 

 Hyla Kampeni Barbour, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard Coll., LI, 1908^3.324. 

 Hyla Kampeni Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard Coll., XLIV, N°. 1, 

 1912, p. 76, pi. V, fig. 13. 



Tongue slightly nicked and free behind ; vomerine teeth in 

 two small groups in the middle between the choanae. Head 

 slightly broader than long; snout rounded, as long as, or a little 

 shorter than the upper eyelid, longer than deep; canthus 

 rostralis indistinct; loreal region oblique, hardly concave ; nostril 

 nearer the tip of the snout than the eye ; interorbital space 

 as broad as, or broader than the upper eyelid; tympanum 

 distinct, about '/, to 2 / 3 the diameter of the eye. Disks of 

 three outer fingers about as large as or a little smaller than 

 the tympanum, of toes a little smaller; first finger shorter 

 than second, which is shorter than fourth; fingers extensively 

 webbed, the web reaching the disks at the outer side of the 

 second and third, and at the inner side of the fourth finger ; 

 first finger included to the disk, or nearly so; third and fifth 

 toe about equal in length; all toes webbed to the disks; sub- 

 articular and inner metatarsal tubercles moderate, a small, 

 circular outer metatarsal tubercle; a distinct tarsal fold; the 

 heel reaches beyond the tip of the snout. 



Smooth above, with scattered, small tubercles on the back 

 and below the vent; belly and lower surfaces of thighs granular ; 

 a fold across the breast; a strong fold above the tympanum; 

 a ridge along outer edge of fore-arm and outer finger, and of 

 tarsus and outer toe ; on tarsus and fore-arm it is more or 

 less distinctly broken up into oblong warts. 



Above greyish or brownish, variegated with dark; lower surface 

 yellowish, the throat dotted with dark brown. Length 57 mm. 



Male with a subgular vocal sac. 



Type specimens in the Leyden Museum examined. The 



