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jecting i-udiment of pollex; outer fingers half webbed; the 

 heel reaches the eye; tibia not half the length of head and body. 



Skin smooth above, strongly corrugated on the sides; gra- 

 nular on the belly and under the thighs. 



Bluish lilac above (in spirit) ; a white streak, edged with 

 dark purple, borders the lower jaw, and extends to above 

 the shoulder; a whitish streak along the outer side of the fore- 

 arm and outer finger and of the tarsus and outer toe, pro- 

 longed a short way up the inner side of the tibia. From 

 snout to vent 115 mm. 



Other characters as in H. infrafrenata. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Dinawa, Owen Stanley range). 



33. Hyla militaria (Ramsay). 



Pelodryas militarius Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.-S.- Wales, II, 1878, p. 28. 



Hyla dolichopsis var. poHicaris Werner, Zool. Anz., XXI, 1898, p. 554. 



ffyla dolichopsis var. pollicaris Werner, Mitt. Mus. f. Naturk. Berlin, I, 1900, 



p. 119 (with description of tadpole and figures of hand, sternal apparatus 



and tadpole). 

 Hyla militaria Boulenger, Zool. Jahrb.. Suppl. XV, i, 1912. p. 214. 



Tongue notched and free behind ; vomerine teeth in two 

 slightly oblique series between the posterior borders of the 

 choanae. Head as broad as or broader than long; snout rounded, 

 twice the length of the eye; canthus rostralis rounded, indis- 

 tinct ; loreal region concave ; interorbital space twice the width 

 of the upper eyelid; tympanum distinct, half to nearly equal 

 to the diameter of the eye. Disks of fingers larger than the 

 tympanum, those of toes somewhat smaller; a strong pro- 

 jecting rudiment of pollex; fingers '/^ to -'3 webbed, toes al- 

 most entirely webbed, the web reaching all disks, except the 

 fourth; subarticular tubercles well developed; a small inner 

 metatarsal tubercle; a tarsal fold; the heel reaches the ante- 

 rior border of the eye, the tip of the snout or beyond. 



Finely granulate above; breast smooth, otherwise granulate 

 beneath. 



Blue or violet (in life green) above; lower lip bordered with 

 a white streak, which is edged with brown below ; a white 

 streak along the outer edge of fore-arm and tarsus; fingers 

 and disks often spotted with red ; white beneath, only the 

 throat of the same colour as the back. Length 124 mm. 



Male with an external vocal sac, an ossified omosternum 

 and a group of black rugosities on the first finger. 



