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the orbit; caiithus rostralis distinct; loreal region nearly vertical; 

 interorbital space broader than the upper eyelid ; tympanum 

 distinct, about half the diameter of the eye. Disks of fingers 

 as large as the tympanum ; outer fingers '/g webbed ; toes 

 nearly entirely webbed ; subarticular tubercles moderate ; the 

 heel reaches the tip of the snout; tibia not quite half the 

 length of head and body. 



Skin smooth above ; throat, belly and base of lower surface 

 of thighs very coarsely granulate ; no fold across the chest. 



Green above, white beneath, the green colour forming a 

 narrow stripe along the upper surface of the thighs. From 

 snout to vent 27 mm. 



Male with an internal vocal sac and brown nuptial rugosi- 

 ties on the inner finger. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Arfak mts., 2400 m. ; Utakwa riv., 

 760 m.). 



2 1. Hyla jeudei Wern. 



Hyla Jciidii Werner, Zool. Anz., XXIV, 1 90 1, p. 99. 



Tongue feebly nicked behind ; vomerine teeth in two round 

 groups close to each other between the choanae. Head a little 

 broader than long; snout rounded, once and a half as long 

 as the diameter of the eye; canthus rostralis rounded; loreal 

 region oblique, concave; nostril nearer the tip of the snout 

 than the eye; interorbital space twice the width of the upper 

 eyelid; tympanum distinct, -/g the diameter of the eye. Disks 

 of fingers half the diameter of the tympanum; first finger 

 shorter than second; fingers webbed at the base; toes webbed, 

 the two distal phalanges and part of the preceding phalanx 

 of the fourth toe are free, of the other toes only the terminal 

 and part of the penultimate phalanx free from web; subarti- 

 cular tubercles distinct; a small, elliptic, inner and a still 

 smaller, indistinct outer metatarsal tubercle ; the heel reaches 

 the centre of the eye. 



Skin indistinctly warty above; belly granulate; a strong 

 » transverse fold across the breast. 



Greyish violet above, indistinctly dark spotted and marbled; 

 a dark cross-bar between the eyes and a pair of longitudinal 

 spots in the scapular region; thighs whitish, dark marbled; 

 dirty white beneath. Length 33 mm. 



Habitat: N.E.-New Guinea. 



