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Skin smooth above; a feeble fold above the tympanum; 

 a series of tubercles along the outer border of the fore-arm, 

 continued as a feeble ridge along the outer finger, and a feeble 

 ridge along the outer border of foot and fifth toe ; belly and 

 lower surface of thighs granulate ; often a fold across the chest. 



Olive-green, grey, brown or yellow (in spirit brown or grey) 

 above, usually marbled with darker; posterior surface of thighs 

 often dark brown or dark grey, usually white-punctate; tuber- 

 cles along fore-arm white; around the vent sometimes a black 

 spot, edged with a white line above; white or yellowish beneath. 

 Young specimens with white (in life probably yellow) markings, 

 viz. three longitudinal bands on the back, a streak from 

 below the eye to the shoulder; fine dots on the fore-arm, in 

 addition to the series of white granules along its outer border;, 

 a transverse streak beneath the vent and some fine dots on 

 the thighs. Length 55 mm. 



Male with an internal vocal sac and in the breeding season 

 with a longish black rugosity on the inner side of the first 

 finger and sometimes some black longitudinal streaks and spots 

 on the back. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Mamberamo riv. !; Idenburg riv. ! ; 

 Sermowai riv.!; Tor riv.!; Moaif riv.!; Humboldt bay!'); 

 Kaiserin Augusta riv.!; Erima, Astrolabe bay; Sattelberg ; 

 between Sissano and Sera; Nikura; Merauke?!); Yule isl. 



24. Hyla macgregori Dgl.-Og. 



Hyla iiiac\qrcgori Douglas Ogilby, Rec. Australian Mus. Sydney, I, 1 890, p. 100. 

 Hyla ihesauretisis v. Mehely, Termesz. Fiizetek, XX, 1897, p. 414, pi- X, fig. 7. 

 Hyla thesaure/isis (partim), v. Kampen, Zool. Jahvb., Syst., XXXVII, 1914, p. 368. 

 Hyla macgregori P^ry, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, XXVII, 1915, p. 76, pi. II 

 and textfig. 3. 



Tongue oval or subcircular, entire or slightly nicked and 

 little free behind; vomerine teeth in two slightly oblique 

 groups between the posterior borders of the choanae. Head as 

 long as broad; snout rounded, about as long as the orbit; 

 canthus rostralis rounded; loreal region oblique, concave; nostril 

 nearer the tip of the snout than the eye; interorbital space 

 a little broader than the upper eyelid ; tympanum very distinct, 

 about half the diameter of the eye. Disks of three outer 



i) Specimen mentioned by me (1914) as //. thesaureijsis. 



