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J. Hylophorbus dubius (Bttgr.). 



Xenorhina dubia Boettger, Zool. Anz., XVIII, 1895, p. 134. 



Xenorhina dubia Boettger, Abh. Senckenb. naturf. Ges., XXV, 1901, p. 369, 



pi. XVI, fig. 10. 

 Gnathophryne dubia v. Mehely, Termesz. Fiizetek, XXIV, 1901, p. 231. 



Habit stout. Tongue large and broad. Head broader than 

 long, its width about 3'/ 2 times in the length of head and 

 body; snout triangular, somewhat pointed, as long as the 

 diameter of the eye; canthus rostralis rounded; loreal region 

 oblique; nostril much nearer the tip of the snout than the 

 eye; interorbital space about once and a half the width of 

 the upper eyelid ; tympanum feebly distinct, about half the 

 diameter of the eye. Fingers and toes with very small disks; 

 first finger shorter than second, which is as long as fourth ; 

 third toe much longer than fifth; subarticular tubercles feebly 

 developed ; a feeble, compressed inner, no outer metatarsal 

 tubercle ; the heel reaches to about the middle of the eye. 



Skin smooth, somewhat warty on the sides of the body; a 

 fold above the tympanum. 



Greyish black above, uniform or indistinctly spotted and 

 marbled with lighter; limbs with a few indistinct, whitish grey 

 bars, transverse spots and rings ; lower parts brownish yellow, 

 reticulated with brown, or brown, marbled and spotted with 

 brownish yellow. Length 24 mm. 



Habitat: Halmahera (up to 670 m.). 



8. Hylophorbus robustus (Blgr.). 



Mantophryne robusta Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 189S, p. 476, 480, 



pi. XXXVIII, fig. 4. 

 Gnathophryne robnsta v. Mehely, Termesz. Fiizetek, XXIV, 1901, p. 225, pi. VI, 



figs. 1 — 3 (skull); pi. IX, figs. 6 — 9 (eggs and embryos). 



Habit stout. Tongue with a median furrow, little free behind, 

 more so on the sides. Head subtriangular, much broader than 

 long; snout obtusely pointed, prominent, shorter than the upper 

 eyelid, as deep as long; canthus rostralis indistinct; loreal 

 region oblique, nearly flat; nostril lateral, nearer the tip of 

 the snout than the eye; interorbital space as broad as to once 

 and a half the width of the upper eyelid; tympanum rather 

 distinct, about 2 / 3 the diameter of the eye. Fingers and toes 

 with small disks, which are much smaller than the tympanum; 

 first finger a little shorter than second, which is about as long 



