37 

 ii. Hyla brachypus (Wern.). 



Hylclla brachypus Werner, Zool. Anz., XXI, 1898, p. 554. 



Hylclla brachypus Vogt, Sitzungsb. Ges. naturf. Fr., Berlin, 191 1, p. 427. 



Tongue oblong, entire; no vomerine teeth. Snout as long 

 as the orbit; canthus rostralis rounded, but distinct; loreal 

 region nearly vertical ; nostril close to the tip of the snout ; 

 interorbital space once and a half to almost twice the width 

 of the upper eyelid ; tympanum not very distinct, '/ 3 the 

 diameter of the eye. Disks larger than the tympanum ; fingers 

 r L, toes 2 / 3 webbed ; the heel reaches the posterior border of 

 the tympanum. 



Smooth, only the belly granulate. 



Brown above ; grey or white below, the throat sometimes 

 finely mottled ; in life the upper parts are blackish brown or 

 olive green, the lower parts greenish yellow. Length 22 mm. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Sattelberg) ; Bismarck arch. 



12. Hyla ouwensi Barb. 



Hvla Pitwe/isii Barbour, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard Coll., LI, 1908^.325. 

 Hyla ouxvcnsii Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard Coll., XLlV, 191 2, 

 p. 77, pi. VII, fig. 25. 



No vomerine teeth. Head short; loreal region rather concave; 

 tympanum about '/,, the diameter of the eye. Fingers 2 / 3 , 

 toes 3 / 4 webbed ; the heel reaches far beyond the tip of the snout. 



Skin of back rough ; belly with very many small tubercles, 

 largest and most abundant about the anal region. 



Upper parts greyish, vermiculated and blotched with blue 

 (green in life); throat white, belly and lower surface of hind 

 limbs yellowish. Length +38 mm. 



Probably based on young individuals, and hardly distinguish- 

 able from H. atropunctata. 



Habitat: Jobi isl. 



13. Hyla atropunctata nomen novum '). 



Hypcrolius nigrojpunctatus Meyer, Monatsber. Akad. Berlin, 1874, p. 139. 

 Hylella nigropiuictata Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., 1882, p. 421. 

 ? Hylclla solomonis Sternfeld, Abh. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges., XXXVI, 1918, p. 436, 

 pi. XXXI, fig. 10. 



1) Hyla nigropunctata is preoccupied (Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., 

 1882, p. 366). 



