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 3- Calliglutus Barb. & Noble. 



(Barbour and Noble, Proc. New England Zool. Club, Cambridge, Mass., 

 VI, 1916, p. 20). 



Pupil round (or horizontally elliptic?). Tongue entire and 

 free behind, not forming a pocket. Palatine teeth in two 

 transverse series, very close to each other. Tympanum hidden. 

 Fingers free, toes webbed; tips of toes slightly dilated. 



Procoracoids, clavicles and omosternum absent; sternum 

 bilobate. 



Distribution: Borneo. 



I. Calliglutus smith! Barb. & Noble. 



Calliglutus smithi Barbour and Noble, Proc. New England Zool. Club, Cambridge, 

 Mass., VI, 1916, p. 20, pi. II and figs, i — 2. 



Habit stout. Tongue large, oval, slightly recurved in its 

 posterior margin. Snout rounded, depressed ; canthus rostralis 

 indistinct; nostril close to the tip of the snout; interorbital 

 space about thrice the width of the upper eyelid ; tympanum 

 hidden. Fingers not, toes slightly dilated ; first finger shorter 

 than second; toes with a very short basal web; subarticular 

 tubercles feeble; a large inner, no outer metatarsal tubercle; 

 the heel reaches the anterior border of the eye. 



Skin smooth. 



Dark brownish grey above, with symmetrical black blotches, 

 edged with pinkish, on the sides and a red X-shaped spot 

 above the vent ; sides and throat washed with light brown 

 and stippled with white; belly white. 



Habitat: Borneo (Limbang river district, Serawak). 



2. Brevicipitinae '). 



Both jaws toothless. 



Distribution: the same as the family. 



Synopsis of the Genera-). 



A. Procoracoids or clavicles or both of them present. 

 Pupil horizontal. 



i) To this subfamily probably belongs „/)'«/.?" mittimus Lesson, Voyage 

 Coquille, Zool., II, i, 1830, p. 62, pi. VII, fig. 4 (Ambon). 



2) V. Mehely (Termesz. Fiizetek, XXIV, 1901, p. 219) divides the Engysto- 

 matidae {=. Brevicipitinae of this book) in two subfamilies: i. Symphygnathinae\ 



