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 2. Sphenophryne klossi Blgr. 



Sphenophrvnc klossi Boulengei-, Transact. Zool. Soc. London, XX, pt. 5, 1914, 

 p. 251, pi. XX VII, figs. 3—3/'. 



Tongue entire. Head broader than long; snout obtusely- 

 pointed, projecting and obliquely truncate, as long as the eye; 

 canthus rostralis strong; loreal region moderately oblique, 

 slightly concave; interorbital space broader than the upper 

 eyelid ; tympanum moderately distinct, about ~\^ the diameter 

 of the eye. Disks of fingers very small, of toes a little larger; 

 first finger shorter than second ; toes free ; subarticular and 

 metatarsal tubercles not very prominent; the heel reaches 

 to between the eye and the tip of the snout. 



Smooth, with a few small warts above and two chevron- 

 shaped fine glandular ridges on the scapular region, pointing 

 towards each other (^<^); a narrow glandular fold from behind 

 the eye to the side of the body; a fine glandular ridge along 

 the middle of the back. 



Yellow above, with an interrupted blackish bar between 

 the eyes, another, A-shaped, on the scapular region, and a 

 third on the sacral region; loreal and temporal regions blackish 

 brown, this shade sometimes continued to the side of the 

 body below the glandular lateral fold; limbs with dark brown 

 cross-bars; hinder side of thighs blackish brown; lower parts 

 white, throat and lower surface of hind limbs mottled with 

 brown ; a fine white line from the tip of the snout to the 

 gular region. From snout to vent 42 mm. 



Dr. Boulenger informs me, that in this species a slender 

 clavicle, reaching the scapula, is present. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Setekwa riv.), 



3. Sphenophryne macrorhyncha (v. Kamp.). 



Cliaperina viacrorhynclia and hasipalniata v. Kampen, Nova (iuinea, V, pt. I, 



1906, p. 168, 169, pi. VI, figs. 3—5. 

 Chaperma niac?-orhyncha v. Kampen, ibid., IX, pt. I, 1909, p. 43. 

 } Sphe/iophrytic schlaginhatifcni WandoUeck, Abh. Zool. Mus. Dresden, XIII, N°. 6, 



1911, p. 5, figs. 10—17. 

 ? Chaptrina qiiatnorlobata WandoUeck, ibid., p. 9, figs. 36 — 46. 

 Chaperina punctata and hasipaliiiata v. Kampen, Nova Guinea, IX, pt. 3, 1913, 



p. 463, 464, pi, XI, fig. 7. 

 Chaperina basipalmata and punctata v. Kampen, Zool. Jahrb., Syst., XXXVII, 



1914, P- 377, 378. 



Tongue entire or feebly nicked behind ; a denticulated dermal 



