105 



Pupil horizontal. Tongue entire or feebly nicked, and free 

 behind. Palate toothless. One or two transverse dermal ridges 

 across the palate, in front of the pharynx. Tympanum distinct 

 or hidden. Fingers free, toes free or webbed at the base, 

 with disks. Outer metatarsals united. 



Procoracoids and clavicles present, the latter reaching the 

 scapulae; no omosternum. Terminal phalanges T-shaped. 



Distribution : Borneo ; Philippines ; New Guinea ; northern 

 Queensland. 



Synopsis of the Species. 



A. Disks of fingers larger than those of toes .... \. S. cornuta p. 105. 



B. Disks of toes larger than those of fingers. 

 I. Snout not longer than the eye. 



1. The heel reaches to between eye and tip 



of snout 2. S. klossi p. 107. 



2. The heel reaches the tympanum or the eye. 3. S. macrorhyncha p. 107. 



3. The heel does not reach the tympanum . . 4. S. polysticta p. 108. 

 II. Snout longer than the eye. 



1. Tympanum distinct 5. S. fusca p. 109. 



2. Tympanum absent 6. S. beyeri p. 1 10. 



i. Sphenophryne cornuta Ptrs. & Dor. 



Cornufer unicolor part., Tschudi, Mem. Soc. Sc. nat. Neuchatel, II, 1839, 



p. 28, 71 '). 

 Sphenophryne cornuta Peters e Doria, Ann. Mus. Genova, XIII, 1878, p. 430, 



pi. VII, fig. 4. 

 Sphenophryne cornuta Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., 1882, p. 157. 

 Chaperina ceraiophthalmus v. Kampen, Nova Guinea, IX, pt. 1, 1909, p. 43, 



pi. II, fig. 8. 

 Sphenophryne cornuta Wandolleck, Abh. Zool. Mus. Dresden, XIII, N°. 6,1911, 



p. 4, figs. 1—9. 

 Chaperina ceratophthahnus v. Kampen, Zool. Jahrb., Syst., XXXVII, 1914^.378. 

 ? Chaperina friedericii Sternfeld, Abh. Senckenb. naturf. Ges., XXXVI, 1918, 



p. 435, Pi- XXXI, fig. 8. 



Tongue entire or slightly nicked behind; a denticulated 

 dermal ridge across the palate, and sometimes a median tubercle 

 in front of it. Head as long as broad; snout pointed, pro- 

 jecting, as long as or a little longer than the upper eyelid 

 and much longer than deep; canthus rostralis angular; loreal 

 region vertical, nearly flat; nostril nearer to the tip of the snout 



1) I examined the specimen in the Leiden Museum, mentioned by Tschudi. 



