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Tail somewhat longer. Mouth a little shorter, bordered by 

 a series of short papillae; an other series of very short and 

 broad papillae on each lip around the series of teeth; both 

 jaws with two black streaks. Tail without light cross-bars. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Bougainville mts., +500 m. !). 



9. Hyla rueppelli Bttg. 



Hyla rueppelli Boettger, Zool. Anz., XVIII, 1895, P- I 37- 



Hyla rueppelli Boettger, Abh. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges., XXV, 1901, p. 373, pi. 

 XVI, figs. 12 — 12 c. 



Tongue oval, slightly nicked and little free behind ; vomerine 

 teeth in two small, roundish groups on a level with the poste- 

 rior borders of the choanae. Snout rounded, truncate, as long 

 as the orbit ; canthus rostralis rounded ; loreal region oblique, 

 slightly concave; nostril close to the tip of the snout; inter- 

 orbital space much broader than the upper eyelid; tympanum 

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

 and toes as large as or somewhat larger than the tympanum; 

 three outer fingers about '/ 2 to 3 / 4 webbed ; web between the 

 two inner fingers only at the base ; toes nearly entirely webbed ; 

 subarticular tubercles feeble; the heel reaches the tip of the 

 snout or a little beyond. 



Skin smooth above ; a strong fold from the eye to the 

 shoulder; belly and lower surface of thighs strongly granulate; 

 heel often with an indistinct light-coloured roundish tubercle. 



Upper parts in life yellow above, sometimes powdered with 

 blackish; in spirit yellowish, greyish or blackish brown, uniform 

 or spotted and marbled with lighter, sometimes light grey 

 with two indistinct, darker, rhombic spots on head and back; 

 usually an indistinct lighter spot on the upper lip, or the 

 whole upper lip yellowish, powdered and spotted with blackish; 

 greyish white beneath. Length 48 mm. 



Male with an internal subgular vocal sac and during the 

 breading season a copulatory excrescence on the outer side 

 of the first finger. 



Habitat: Halmahera. 



10. Hyla fallax Blgr. 



? Hyperolius pygmaeus Meyer, Monatsber. Akad. Berlin, 1874, p. 132. 

 Hylclla boulengeri v. Mehely, Termesz. Fiizetek, XX, 1897, P- 4 r 4i pi. X, fig. 8 

 (non : Scy topis boulengeri Cope). 



