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fingers equal; toes moderately elongate; inner metatarsal 

 tubercle indistinct; the heel reaches the shoulder; tibia ^/. the 

 length of head and body. 



Skin smooth, thick and leathery on the back. 



Brown ; groin and sides of hind limbs yellowish, with' a 

 wide-meshed blackish network. From snout to vent 75 mm. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Haveri, in Moroka; Milne gulf). 



8. Gastrophryne Fitz. 



(FiTZiNGER, Syst. Rept., Vindobonae, fasc. I, 1843, p. 33; Stejneger, Proc. 



biol. Soc. Washington, XXIII (1910), 1911, p. 165). 

 Engy stoma Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal., 1882, p. 160, nee Fitzinger, Neue Classif. 

 Rept., Wien, 1826, p. 39. 



Pupil vertical. Tongue entire and free behind. Palate tooth- 

 less. A transverse dermal ridge across the palate between the 

 choanae, and another in front of the pharynx. Tympanum 

 hidden. Fingers and toes free, blunt or with dilated tips. Outer 

 metatarsals united. 



No procoracoids or clavicles. Terminal phalanges simple. 



Distribution: America; Borneo. 



I. Gastrophryne borneensis (Blgr.). 



Engystoma borneeiise Boulenger, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (6) XIX, 1897, p. 108. 



Snout pointed, strongly projecting, very long (twice and a 

 half the diameter of the eye); interorbital space thrice the 

 width of the upper eyelid ; eye small. Fingers swollen at the 

 end; toes with small disks; fingers short, first shorter than 

 second; a very small inner metatarsal tubercle ; the heel reaches 

 the posterior border of the eye, the tarso-metatarsal articu- 

 lation the tip of the snout. 



Skin smooth. 



Blackish brown above, with scattered minute white dots; 

 brown beneath. From snout to vent 39 mm. 



Habitat: Borneo (Baram district, Serawak). 



9. Phrynella Blgr. 



(Boulenger, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (5) XIX, 1887, p. 346). 



Pupil horizontal. Tongue nicked and free behind. Palate 



toothless. No dermal ridges across the palate. Tympanum 



hidden. Fingers free, toes webbed, the tips dilated. Outer 



metatarsals united. 



