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AMPHIBIA SALIENTIA 

 Hyla thesaurensis Peters 



Hyla thesaurensis Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac, 1877, p. 421. 



Hyla macrops Boulenger, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5), 12, 1883, p. 164; 



Trans. Zool. Soc, 12, 1886, p. 59, pi. 11, fig. 3. 

 Hyla lutea Boulenger, P. Z. S., 1887, p. 337, pi. 28, fig. 4. 



Peters' type was a young specimen, 28 mm. in length. The 

 measurements which Boulenger gave when he described H. 

 macrops were: male, 38 mm., and female, 54 mm., in length, 

 while later he stated H. lutea to be 67 mm. long. Boulenger 

 himself was in doubt as to the validity of macrops, and (1886) 

 inclined to consider it a color variety only of thesaurensis. H. 

 lutea, however, was said to have the fingers half webbed; while 

 in macrops no web in the fingers is mentioned, and Peters also 

 states that the fingers are free in thesaurensis. Boulenger men- 

 tions a slight trace of finger web in the little, 31-mm.-long in- 

 dividual which in 1886 he called thesaurensis. The character 

 seems to be variable, and while none of our specimens shows as 

 much web as is drawn in his figure of lutea, nevertheless many 

 of them do show a very considerable and a very variable degree 

 of webbing. The types of thesaurensis and macrops both came 

 from Treasury Island, those of lutea from Faro, near by. Mann's 

 booty shows that the species is very abundant, and wide-ranging 

 throughout the group. We have the following specimens: — 



One from Fulakora, Ysabel Island, small, colored as the type 

 of thesaurensis; four, two adults and two young, from Yandina, 

 Russell or Pavuvu Island, northeast of Guadalcanar (Lat. 9° 

 4' S., Long. 159° S'E.); one adult from Rubiana Lagoon, New 

 Georgia; twelve adults from Ysabel. A very variable series, 

 as to finger webs; three adults from Tulagi, two males and one 

 female, fingers of male less webbed than the female's; two 

 adults from Malaita, near the coast; ten adults from Malaita, 

 high hills of the interior. 



