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colour-variety of H. macrops; I suggest, that it is based on 

 the young of this species. 

 Habitat: Solomon islands. 



28. Hyla lutea Blgr. 



Hyla lutea Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1887, p. 337, pi. XXVIII, fig. 4. 



Hyla lutea Vogt, Sitzungsber. Ges. naturf. Fr., Berlin, 1912, p. 10. 



Hyla thcsaurcnsis part., Barbour, Proc. New England Zool. Club, VII, 1921, p. 93. 



Tongue oval, very slightly nicked and slightly free behind; 

 vomerine teeth in two strong transverse groups between the 

 choanae. Head as broad as or slightly broader than long; 

 snout rounded, longer than the eye; canthus rostralis very 

 indistinct; loreal region concave; nostril nearer the tip of the 

 snout than the eye; interorbital space broader than the upper 

 eyelid; tympanum very distinct, about 2 / 3 ') the diameter of 

 the eye. Disks of fingers larger than, of toes as large as the 

 tympanum; no projecting rudiment of pollex; fingers half 

 webbed, the web reaching nearly the disks of the second and 

 third fingers; toes 3 / 4 webbed; subarticular tubercles small, 

 flat; a small, flat, inner metatarsal tubercle ; no tarsal fold ; the 

 heel reaches the tip of the snout or a little beyond. 



Skin smooth ; belly and lower surface of thighs with large, 

 flat granules. 



Uniform lemon-yellow above, white inferiorly; a white line 

 along the outer side of fore-arm and fourth finger and of tarsus 

 and fifth toe. From snout to vent 6j mm. 



Male with an internal subgular vocal sac and black nuptial 

 excrescences on the inner finger. 



Perhaps Barbour is right in regarding this species as iden- 

 tical with Hyla tlicsanrensis. 



Habitat: Solomon islands. 



29. Hyla solomonis Vogt. 



Hyla solomonis Vogt, Sitzungsber. Ges. naturf. Fr., Berlin, 1912, p. 10. 



Tongue oval, very feebly nicked behind; vomerine teeth 

 in two round groups between the choanae. Snout rounded; 

 canthus rostralis obtuse, but distinct, straight; loreal region 

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

 twice the width of the upper eyelid ; tympanum half the 



1) According to Vogt '/ 3 . 



