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Habit rather slender. Head small; snout short, as long as 

 the eye; canthus rostralis distinct ; loreal region almost vertical; 

 nostril near the tip of the snout; interorbital space a little 

 broader than the upper eyelid ; tympanum very distinct, about 

 2 / 3 diameter of eye. Fingers much depressed, fingers and toes 

 with small disks; inner finger rudimentary; fingers entirely 

 webbed, except the third, which is half webbed ; the three inner 

 toes webbed to the tips; no subarticular tubercles; a rounded, 

 father large outer metatarsal tubercle, no inner one ; no tarsal 

 fold; the heel reaches the tympanum, sometimes a little beyond 

 or not quite so far. 



Upper parts with inequal warty tubercles, the largest ones 

 in the middle of the back and on the sides, the latter arranged 

 in two series between the eye and the sacrum; lower parts 

 smooth or granular, the belly with tubercles. 



Olive-brown above; beneath lighter, or the belly black, 

 marbled with greyish white. From snout to vent 23 mm. 



Habitat: Borneo (Paka Paka, Mt. Kina Balu, 3000 m.). 



2. Nectophryne hosii Blgr. 



Neclophrync hosii Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1892, p. 508, pi. XXX, fig. 2. 

 Nectophryne hosii Roux, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1906, I, p. 59, pi. II, fig. 1. 

 Nectophryne hosii Boulenger, Vert. Fauna Malay Penins., Rept. and Batr., London, 

 1912, p. 268. 



Habit stout. Head broader than long; snout truncate, short ; 

 canthus rostralis strong; loreal region nearly vertical, concave; 

 interorbital space twice as broad as the upper eyelid; tym- 

 panum very distinct, vertically oval, about half the diameter 

 of the eye. Fore limb long and strong; fingers much depressed, 

 the tips broad and truncate ; disks of toes a little smaller 

 than those of fingers ; first finger shorter than second ; fingers 

 webbed at the base, the web extending as a margin to the 

 tips; toes extensively webbed, but the three distal phalanges 

 of the fourth toe free ; subarticular tubercles small, feebly 

 prominent ; two flat metatarsal tubercles, the inner one largest ; a 

 tarsal fold; the heel reaches the tympanum or the eye, the 

 tarso-metatarsal articulation reaches the tip of the snout, or 

 not quite so far. 



Above with small scattered warts, beneath finely granulate ; 

 a short and narrow, but very prominent parotoid gland. 



Male uniform brown, with indistinct spots or cross-bands 



