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the edge of the mouth ; belly and posterior surface of thighs 

 granular; a cross-fold between the shoulders usually present. 



Brownish or olive above, uniform or with dark markings 

 arranged in longitudinal bands, and a light streak along each 

 side of the middle of the back; loreal and temporal regions 

 and sides of body black, posterior surface of thighs white, 

 black spotted, or with black longitudinal bars; beneath whitish, 

 throat and part of belly sometimes brownish. From snout to 

 vent 48 mm. 



Male with an internal subgular vocal sac and during the 

 breeding season an 8-shaped copulatory excrescence on the 

 first finger. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Kamali; Merauke!), — N.- and E.- 

 Australia! 



44. Hyla(r) dorsalis (MacL). 



Litoria dorsalis Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.-S.-Wales, II, 187S, p. 13S. 

 Litoria dorsalis Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., 1882, p. 337. 

 Litoria dorsalis Fry, Mem. Queensland Mus., II, 1913, p. 49. 



Elongate. Tongue not notched behind. Vomerine teeth in 

 two very oblique, short series between the choanae. Snout 

 pointed, projecting; nostril in a lateral depression, close to 

 the tip of the snout. Fingers and toes with well defined 

 roundish disks; toes webbed at the base. 



Skin smooth above, of belly granular. 



Dark above, with a broad whitish band from the snout to 

 the vent; yellowish beneath, much clouded with brown on 

 throat and chest. Length 9 „lines". 



Habitat: New Guinea (Katow). 



4. Fam. BUFONIDAE. 



Jaws toothless. Diapophyses of the sacral vertebra dilated. 

 Terminal phalanges of fingers and toes obtuse or T-shaped, 

 not claw-shaped. 



Oniosternum absent, or reduced and cartilaginous; sternum 

 rarely ossified. Vertebrae procoelous. No ribs. Os coccygis 

 articulating by two (rarely one) condyles. 



Distribution: cosmopolitan, except the eastern part of the 

 Indo-Australian Archipelago, Polynesia and Madagascar. 

 Indo-australiam amphibia. 5 



