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cate, longer than the diameter of the eye ; canthus rostralis 

 distinct; loreal region concave; interorbital space broader than 

 the upper eyelid; no tympanum. Disks about half the diameter 

 of the eye; fingers webbed at the base, toes nearly entirely 

 webbed ; the heel reaches beyond the tip of the snout. 



Minutely granulate above ; a fold from the eye to the axilla, 

 another across the throat; belly and lower side of thighs 

 granulate; a slight dermal fold with a row of tubercles along 

 the outer side of the fore-arm; a less pronounced series of 

 tubercles along the outer side of the tarsus ; heel with a short 

 dermal appendage. From snout to vent 34 mm. 



Dark brown above, light below. 



Perhaps the young of H. montana. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Simbang, 50 m.). 



8. Hyla montana Ptrs. & Dor. 



Hyla (Litoria) montana Peters e Doria, Ann. Mus. Genova, XIII, 1878, p. 423, 



pi. VII, fig. 1. 

 Hyla montana Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., 1882, p. 385. 

 Hyla papua v. Kampen, Nova Guinea, IX, pt. 1, 1909, p. 33, pi. II, fig. 2. 

 ? Hyla pulchra Wandolleck, Abh. Zool. Mus. Dresden, XIII, N°. 6, 1911, p. 12, 



fi gs. 50—59- 

 Hyla papua v. Kampen, Nova Guinea, IX, pt. 3, 1913, p. 455, pi. XI, fig. 1 



(tadpole). 



Tongue subcircular, nicked and slightly free behind ; vome- 

 rine teeth in two short transverse series between the large 

 choanae. Head broader than long; snout rounded, vertically 

 truncate, as long as the upper eyelid, longer than deep; canthus 

 rostralis angular, curved; loreal region very oblique, concave; 

 nostril close to the tip of the snout; interorbital space broader 

 than the upper eyelid (as broad as the upper eyelid in the 

 young); tympanum distinct, about 2 / 3 diameter of eye. Disks 

 of fingers and toes moderate, of second to fourth finger larger, 

 of first finger smaller than tympanum, of toes smaller than 

 those of fingers; first finger shorter than second, which is 

 shorter than fourth; web between the first and second finger 

 only at the base, the other fingers '/ 3 to l / 2 webbed; third 

 and fifth toes of equal length ; toes webbed to the disks, the 

 two distal phalanges of the fourth toe being included only by 

 a narrow fold ; subarticular tubercles of fingers and toes well 

 developed, the distal ones heart-shaped; an oblong inner, and 

 Indo-australian amphibia. 3 



