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 II. Hyla brachypus (Wern.). 



Hyklla brachypus Werner, Zool. Anz.. XXI, 1898, p. 554. 



Hylella h-achypus Vogt, Sitzungsb. Ges. naturf. Fr., Berlin, 1911, p. 427. 



Tongue oblong, entire ; no vomerine teeth. Snout as long 

 as the orbit; canthus rostralis rounded, but distinct; loreal 

 region nearly vertical ; nostril close to the tip of the snout ; 

 interorbital space once and a half to almost twice the width 

 of the upper eyelid ; tympanum not very distinct, '/g the 

 diameter of the eye. Disks larger than the tympanum ; fingers 

 Y3, toes -/g webbed ; the heel reaches the posterior border of 

 the tympanum. 



Smooth, only the belly granulate. 



Brown above; grey or white below, the throat sometimes 

 finely mottled ; in life the upper parts are blackish brown or 

 olive green, the lower parts greenish yellow. Length 22 mm. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Sattelberg) ; Bismarck arch. 



12. Hyla ouwensi Barb. 



Hyla owwensii Barbour, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard Coll., LI, 1908, p. 325. 

 Hyla oiiwcnsii Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard Coll., XLIV, 1912, 

 p. 77, pi. VII, fig. 25. 



No vomerine teeth. Head short; loreal region rather concave; 

 tympanum about '/^ the diameter of the eye. Fingers -/s? 

 toes Y4 webbed ; the heel reaches far beyond the tip of the snout. 



Skin of back rough ; belly with very many small tubercles, 

 largest and most abundant about the anal region. 



Upper parts greyish, vermiculated and blotched with blue 

 (green in life); throat white, belly and lower surface of hind 

 limbs yellowish. Length +38 mm. 



Probably based on young individuals, and hardly distinguish- 

 able from H. atropiinctata. 



Habitat: Jobi isl. 



13. Hyla atropunctata nomen novum '). 



HypcroUiis iiigropttnctatus Meyer, Monatsber. Akad. Berlin, 1874, p. 139. 

 Hylella nigropunctata Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., 1882, p. 421. 

 } Hylella solomonis Sternfeld, Abh. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges., XXXVI, 1918, p. 436, 

 pi. XXXI, fig. 10. 



i) Hyla nigropunctata is preoccupied (Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., 

 1882, p. 366). 



