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i. Dyscophina volzi v. Kamp. 



Dyscophina volzi v. Kampen, Zool. Jahrb., Syst., XXII, 1905, p. 708, pi. XXVI. 



Habit 'stout. Tongue oval; posterior dermal ridge of the 

 palate strong, straight, the anterior one less developed, curved. 

 Head much broader than long; snout as long as the upper 

 eyelid or a little shorter, nearly as deep as long; canthus 

 rostralis obtuse, curved ; loreal region very oblique, feebly 

 concave; nostril in the middle between the tip of the snout 

 and the upper eyelid; interorbital space about once and a half 

 the width of the upper eyelid; tympanum invisible. Tips of 

 fingers feebly swollen, of toes distinctly dilated; first finger 

 scarcely shorter than second, which is as long as fourth; third 

 toe much longer than fifth; toes half webbed, the web reaching 



nearly the tip of the fifth 

 one, and that of the 

 first and second ones 

 at their outer side, the 

 second subarticular tuber- 

 cle in the third and fourth 

 toe, the first tubercle at 

 the inner side of the 

 second toe; a dermal 

 ridge reaches to the 

 swollen tips of all toes 

 and extends along the 

 outer side of the fifth one; 

 subarticular tubercles flat; 

 a strong, compressed inner and a feeble outer metatarsal tuber- 

 cle; the heel ') reaches the eye. 



Upper parts smooth or very feebly granular, with a few 

 small warts, some of them more or less perfectly confluent on 

 each side of the back into a low and narrow longitudinal 

 ridge from the posterior border of the eye backwards; another, 

 feeble ridge from the eye to the shoulder; a feeble cross fold 

 between the posterior borders of the eyes; smooth below. 



Reddish brown, lighter below, with more or less confluent 

 dark spots, which are most numerous on the sides of the 



Fig. 11. Dyscophina volzi v. Kamp., X l *U- 



1) Not the tarso- metatarsal articulation, as is erroneously stated in the original 

 description. 



