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about */ 2 the width of the eye. Tips of fingers and toes not 

 dilated; first finger a little shorter than second ; no subarticular 

 tubercles; a very feeble inner metatarsal tubercle; the heel 

 reaches the axilla. 



Skin smooth. 



Uniform dark brown above. Beneath also uniform dark brown, 

 or creamy-white, variously clouded and speckled with dark brown. 



From snout to vent 27 mm. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Mt. Scratchley, Owen Stanley 

 range, + 3700 m.). 



17. Cophixalus Bttgr. 



(Boettger, Kat. Batr.-Samml. Senckenb. naturf. Ges., Frankf. a/M., 1892, p. 24). 



Pupil horizontal. Tongue long, entire and free behind. Palate 

 toothless. A denticulated dermal ridge across the palate, in 

 front of the pharynx. Tympanum distinct. Fingers free, toes 

 webbed at the base, with large disks. 



No procoracoids or clavicles. Sternum ossified (?). 



Distribution: New Guinea. 



1. Cophixalus geislerorum Bttgr. 



Cophixalus geislerorum Boettger, Kat. Batr.-Samml. Senckenb. naturf. Ges., 

 Frankf. a/M., 1892, p. 24. 



Snout truncated, shorter than the diameter of the eye; 

 canthus rostralis feeble ; loreal region feebly concave ; inter- 

 orbital space broader than the upper eyelid; eye strongly pro- 

 jecting; tympanum distinct. Disks of fingers and toes large; 

 first finger shorter than second; toes distinctly webbed; sub- 

 articular tubercles feebly distinct; a feeble, compressed inner 

 metatarsal tubercle; the heel reaches hardly beyond the shoulder, 

 the metatarsal tubercle hardly the anterior border of the eye. 



Upper surfaces smooth, belly and thighs granular. 



Blackish brown above, on the sides and the limbs with 

 many smaller and some larger yellowish, dots and spots; a 

 distinct light marking in the lumbar region; a white curved 

 streak from the posterior border of the eye to the shoulder; 

 beneath yellowish white, the throat and posterior surface of 

 the thighs finely powdered with brown. Length 26 mm. 



Probably a renewed examination will show that this species 

 belongs to Oreophryne or Splienophryne and the genus Cophixalus 

 has to be cancelled. 



Habitat: N.-E.-New Guinea. 



