4 6 



Skin smooth above; a feeble fold above the tympanum; 

 a series of tubercles along the outer border of the fore-arm, 

 continued as a feeble ridge along the outer finger, and a feeble 

 ridge along the outer border of foot and fifth toe ; belly and 

 lower surface of thighs granulate ; often a fold across the chest. 



Olive-green, grey, brown or yellow (in spirit brown or grey) 

 above, usually marbled with darker; posterior surface of thighs 

 often dark brown or dark grey, usually white-punctate ; tuber- 

 cles along fore -arm white; around the vent sometimes a black 

 spot, edged with a white line above; white or yellowish beneath. 

 Young specimens with white (in life probably yellow) markings, 

 viz. three longitudinal bands on the back, a streak from 

 below the eye to the shoulder; fine dots on the fore-arm, in 

 addition to the series of white granules along its outer border;, 

 a transverse streak beneath the vent and some fine dots on 

 the thighs. Length 55 mm. 



Male with an internal vocal sac and in the breeding season 

 with a longish black rugosity on the inner side of the first 

 finger and sometimes some black longitudinal streaks and spots 

 on the back. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Mamberamo riv. !; Idenburg riv. ! ; 

 Sermowai riv.!; Tor riv.!; Moaif riv.!; Humboldt bay! 1 ); 

 Kaiserin Augusta riv.!; Erima, Astrolabe bay; Sattelberg ; 

 between Sissano and Sera; Nikura; Merauke ? !) ; Yule isl. 



24. Hyla macgregori Dgl.-Og. 



Hyla macgregori Douglas Ogilby, Rec. Australian Mus. Sydney, I, 1890, p. 100. 

 Hyla ihesaurcnsis v. Mehely, Termesz. Fiizetek, XX, 1897, p. 414, pi. X, fig. 7. 

 Hyla thesaurensis (partim), v. Kampen, Zool. Jahvb., Syst., XXXVII, 1914, p. 368. 

 Hyla macgregori Fry, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, XXVII, 19 15, p. 76, pi. II 

 and textfig. 3. 



Tongue oval or subcircular, entire or slightly nicked and 

 little free behind; vomerine teeth in two slightly oblique 

 groups between the posterior borders of the choanae. Head as 

 long as broad; snout rounded, about as long as the orbit; 

 canthus rostralis rounded; loreal region oblique, concave; nostril 

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

 a little broader than the upper eyelid; tympanum very distinct, 

 about half the diameter of the eye. Disks of three outer 



1) Specimen mentioned by me (19 14) as //. thesaurensis 



