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a very small, roundish outer metatarsal tubercle; the heel 

 reaches beyond tip of snout; tibia 2 / 3 length of head and body. 



Skin smooth above, granular on the head ; a fold above 

 the tympanum; belly and lower surface of thighs granulate; 

 a dermal ridge along; the outer side of the fore-arm and the 

 fourth finger, and along that of the tarsus and the fifth toe; 

 some large granules below the vent; a small triangular dermal 

 appendage at the heel sometimes present. 



Olive-brown (in life yellowish green) above; yellow beneath, 

 sometimes dotted with brown; the inner fingers and the inner 

 toes orange yellow; the dermal ridges whitish; limbs with 

 indistinct dark cross-bars. Length 75 mm. 



Male with an internal vocal sac. 



Tadpole. — Length of body nearly once and a half its 

 width; tail but little longer than the body, about twice and 

 a half as long as deep, and but little deeper than its muscular 

 portion at the base. Nostril about twice nearer the eye than 

 the tip of the snout; eyes superior, nearer the spiraculum 

 than the tip of the snout; distance between them a little 

 greater than that between the nostrils; spiraculum sinistral, 

 directed upwards and backwards, visible from above and from 

 below, much nearer the vent than the tip of the snout ; vent 

 median. Tail with rounded tip ; the crests not extending on 

 to the body. 



Mouth ventral, very large, nearly as broad and almost half 

 as long as the body; lips without papillae; upper jaw with two 

 short black streaks, lower with a single one; series of teeth 2/3, 

 all series about equal in length; in the lower lip they are placed 

 close to the mouth, the largest part of the lip being toothless. 



Brown above, colourless below ; tail brown, with three colour- 

 less, dark-bordered cross-bars, the posterior one including the 

 tip of the tail. Length 29 mm. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Hatam, Arfak mts. ; Pomora riv., 

 + 760 m.!; Torricelli mts.?; Gerekanumu, Astrolabe Range; 

 Sattelberg; Lorentz riv.!; Van der Sande riv.!; Went mts., 

 1050 m. !; Utakwa riv.; Setekwa riv.). 



Hyla spec. ? 



Hyla sp., v. Kampen, Zool. Jahrb., Syst., XXXVII, 1914, p. 370. 



Tadpole. — Differing from that of H. montana in the 

 following points : 



