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Tadpole. — Length of body twice its width; tail some- 

 what more than once and a half the length of the body, about 

 twice and a half as long as deep. Nostril nearer the tip of 

 the snout than the eye; eyes lateral, as far from the tip of 

 the snout as from the spiraculum; the distance between them 

 about twice and a half that between the nostrils, which equals 

 the width of the mouth; spiraculum without tube; it is a 

 transverse slit on the left side, near the medioventral line, 

 equally distant from tip of snout and base of tail, or nearer 

 the latter; vent dextral, above the lower border of the sub- 

 caudal crest. Tail acutely pointed, the crests high, with convex 

 border, the lower distinctly higher than the upper, which 

 reaches forward to above the spiraculum. 



Lips bordered with papillae, which are absent only in the 

 middle part of the upper lip; jaws, especially the lower one, 

 broadly edged with black; series of teeth i ' i /i ^ i or 1^1/3, 

 the outer one of lower lip short. 



Grey above, lighter beneath, with a median and a pair of 

 lateral light longitudinal dorsal streaks. Length 62 mm. 



Habitat: Timor!; Talaut islands!; Halmahera; Ternate; 

 Batjan; MisoOl; Buru, up to 750 m.!; Ceram!; Ambon!; 

 Nusa Laut!; Timorlaut islands; Kei islands!; Aru islands!; 

 Waigeu!; Salawati ; New Guinea (Sorong; Dore; Manokwari ! ; 

 Andai ! ; Mansiman; Arfak mts.; Rubi, Geelvink bay; Mam- 

 beramo riv. ! ; Idenburg riv. ! ; Waipopa riv. !; Humboldt bay !; 

 Seka ! ; Sentani lake ! ; Eitape ; Seleo isl. ; Kaiserin Augusta riv. ! ; 

 Friedrich Wilhelmshafen ; Erima ; Stephansort; Bongu; Sattel- 

 berg, +800 m. ; Clyde riv.; Dinawa, Owen Stanley range; 

 Oro bay; Maopa; Hula; Yule ; Nikura; St. Joseph river district; 

 Bara Bara; Haveri ; Moroka, 700 m. ; Inawi ; Kamali; Katow; 

 Merauke!; Digul riv !; Lorentz riv.!; Van der Sande riv.!; 

 Utakwa riv.; Setekwa riv.; Mimika riv.); Frederik Hendrik 

 isl.!; Jobi isl.; Meisor isl. — Ferguson isl.; d' Entrecasteaux 

 islands; Trobriand islands; But; Valise; Duke of York isl.; 

 islands of Torres strait; Queensland. 



32. Hyla spengeli Blgr, 



Hyla Spengeli Boulenger, Zool. Jatirb., Suppl. XV, i, 1 91 2, p. 215. 



Head as in H. infrafrenata\ snout twice as long as the dia- 

 meter of the eye; tympanum as large as the eye. 



Disk of third finger almost as large as the eye; no pro- 



