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Tail somewhat longer. Mouth a little shorter, bordered by 

 a series of short papillae; an other series of very short and 

 broad papillae on each lip around the series of teeth; both 

 jaws with two black streaks. Tail without light cross-bars. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Bougainville mts., +500 m. !). 



9. Hyla rueppelli Bttg. 



By la rucppeUi Boettger, Zool. Anz., XVIII, 1895, p. 137. 



Hyla rueppelli Boettger, Abh. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges., XXV, 1901, p. 373, pi. 



XVI, figs. 12 I2C. 



Tongue oval, slightly nicked and little free behind; vomerine 

 teeth in two small, roundish groups on a level with the poste- 

 rior borders of the choanae. Snout rounded, truncate, as long 

 as the orbit ; canthus rostralis rounded ; loreal region oblique, 

 slightly concave; nostril close to the tip of the snout; inter- 

 orbital space much broader than the upper eyelid; tympanum 

 distinct, about '/3 the diameter of the eye. Disks of fingers 

 and toes as large as or somewhat larger than the tympanum; 

 three outer fingers about '/2 to ^4 webbed ; web between the 

 two inner fingers only at the base ; toes nearly entirely webbed ; 

 subarticular tubercles feeble; the heel reaches the tip of the 

 snout or a little beyond. 



Skin smooth above ; a strong fold from the eye to the 

 shoulder; belly and lower surface of thighs strongly granulate; 

 heel often with an indistinct light-coloured roundish tubercle. 



Upper parts in life yellow above, sometimes powdered with 

 blackish; in spirit yellowish, greyish or blackish brown, uniform 

 or spotted and marbled with lighter, sometimes light grey 

 with two indistinct, darker, rhombic spots on head and back; 

 usually an indistinct lighter spot on the upper lip, or the 

 whole upper lip yellowish, powdered and spotted with blackish; 

 greyish white beneath. Length 48 mm. 



Male with an internal subgular vocal sac and during the 

 breading season a copulatory excrescence on the outer side 

 of the first finger. 



Habitat: Halmahera. 



10. Hyla fallax Blgr. 



? Hyperolms pygmaeus Meyer, ^lonatsber. Akad. Berlin, 1874, p. 132. 

 Hylclla boiilengeri v. Mehely, Termesz. Fiizetek, XX, 1897, p. 414, pi- X, fig. 8 

 (non : Scyfopis Iwiilengeri Cope). 



