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No procoracoids or clavicles. Terminal phalanges T-shaped. 

 Distribution: Malacca; Mentawei isl. ; Sumatra; Borneo. 



Synopsis of the Species. 



A. Toes at least ^/^ webbed. Subarticular tubercles flat. i. P. piihhra p. 125. 



B. Toes hardly half webbed. Subarticular tubercles very 



prominent 1. P. poUkaris p. 125. 



I. Phrynella pulchra Blgr. 



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



pi. X, fig. 2. 

 Phrynella pulchra Isenschmid, Mitth. naturf. Ges. Bern, 1903, p. 75, pi. V, figs, i, \a. 

 Phrynella pulchra Boulenger, Vert. P'auna Malay Penins., Rept. and Batr., London, 



1912, p. 265. 



Habit stout. Head small; snout truncate, projecting, a little 

 longer than the eye; interorbital space much broader than 

 the upper eyelid. Fingers depressed, with large subtriangular 

 disks; toes with feebly dilated tips; first finger shorter than 

 second ; toes ^4 to nearly entirely webbed ; subarticular tuber- 

 cles very large and flat; a small, oval, flat inner metatarsal 

 tubercle; the heel reaches the temple or nearly the posterior 

 border of the eye. 



Skin smooth, or with small flat warts on the sides and the 

 posterior part of the back. 



Brown above, with symmetrical darker spots, some of which 

 are edged with a pink line; throat and lower surface of foot 

 brown ; belly, groin and hinder side of thighs yellowish (in 

 spirit); vent in a large dark brown spot, separated from the 

 dark colour of the back and the upper surface of the thighs 

 by a band of the yellowish colour of the lower surface. From 

 snout to vent 42 mm. 



Male with an internal subgular vocal sac. 



Habitat: Mentawei islands (Sipora) ; Sumatra (Belu Telang, 

 Lower Langkat; Deli; Batak mts., 800 m.; Benakat, Palem- 

 bang!). — Malay Peninsula. 



2. Phrynella pollicaris Blgr. 



Prynella pulchra Gilnther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (5) XX, 1887, p. 313, 



pi. XVI, fig. B. 

 Phrynella pollicaris Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1890, p. 37. 

 Phrynella pollicaris Boulenger, Vert. Fauna Malay Penins., Rept. and Batr., 



London, X912, p. 266. 



