107 

 2. Sphenophryne klossi Blgr. 



Sphenophryne klossi Koulenger, Transact. Zool. Soc. London, XX, pt. 5, 1914, 

 p. 251, pi. XXVII, figs. 3—3/'. 



Tongue entire. Head broader than long; snout obtusely 

 pointed, projecting and obliquely truncate, as long as the eye; 

 canthus rostralis strong; loreal region moderately oblique, 

 slightly concave; interorbital space broader than the upper 

 eyelid ; tympanum moderately distinct, about a / 3 the diameter 

 of the eye. Disks of fingers very small, of toes a little larger; 

 first finger shorter than second ; toes free ; subarticular and 

 metatarsal tubercles not very prominent; the heel reaches 

 to between the eye and the tip of the snout. 



Smooth, with a few small warts above and two chevron- 

 shaped fine glandular ridges on the scapular region, pointing 

 towards each other (^><(); a narrow glandular fold from behind 

 the eye to the side of the body; a fine glandular ridge along 

 the middle of the back. 



Yellow above, with an interrupted blackish bar between 

 the eyes, another, A-shaped, on the scapular region, and a 

 third on the sacral region ; loreal and temporal regions blackish 

 brown, this shade sometimes continued to the side of the 

 body below the glandular lateral fold; limbs with dark brown 

 cross-bars; hinder side of thighs blackish brown; lower parts 

 white, throat and lower surface of hind limbs mottled with 

 brown ; a fine white line from the tip of the snout to the 

 gular region. From snout to vent 42 mm. 



Dr. Boulenger informs me, that in this species a slender 

 clavicle, reaching the scapula, is present. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Setekwa riv.). 



3. Sphenophryne macrorhyncha (v. Kamp.). 



Chaperina macrorhyncha and basipalmata v. Kampen, Nova Guinea, V, pt. 1, 



1906, p. 168, 169, pi. VI, figs. 3—5. 

 Chaperina macrorhyncha v. Kampen, ibid., IX, pt. I, 1909, p. 43. 

 ? Sphenophrync schlaginhaufeni Wandolleck, Abh. Zool. Mus. Dresden, XIII, N°. 6, 



191 1, p. 5, figs. 10—17. 

 ? Chaperina quatuorlobata Wandolleck, ibid., p. 9, figs. 36 — 46. 

 Chaperina punctata and basipalmata v. Kampen, Nova Guinea, IX, pt. 3, 1913, 



p. 463, 464, pi. XI, fig. 7. 

 Chape> ina basipalmata and punctata v. Kampen, Zool. Jahrb., Syst., XXXVII, 



1914, P- 377, 378. 



Tongue entire or feebly nicked behind ; a denticulated dermal 



