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Fingers and toes free, the tips dilated. Outer metatarsals united. 



No procoracoids, clavicles, or omosternum. Terminal pha- 

 langes T-shaped. 



Distribution: New Guinea. 



I. Xenorhina oxycephala (Schlg.). 



Boiiiblnator oxycephalus Schlegel, Handl. Dierk., Breda, 1858, 11, p. 58, pi. IV, fig. 74. 

 Xcnorliina oxycephala Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., 1882, p. 179. 

 Xenorhina atra Giinther, Novit. Zool., Ill, 1896, p. 184, pi. VIII, fig. i. 

 Xenorhina oxycephala v. Mehely, Termesz. Fiizetek, XXIV, 1901, p. 236. 

 Xenorhina oxycephala v. Kampen, Zool. Jahrb., Syst., XXXVII, 1914, p. 374. 



Habit stout. Head broader than long, the side of the head, 

 from tip of snout to shoulder, forms a feebly curved line; 

 snout pointed, strongly projecting, twice the length of the 

 eye; canthus rostralis indistinct; loreal region very oblique, feebly 



concave ; nostril nearer to 

 the tip of the snout than to 

 the eye ; interorbital space 

 about thrice the width of the 

 upper eyelid ; tympanum 

 hidden or more or less 

 distinct, about as large as 

 the eye. Fingers with slight- 

 ly swollen tips, toes with 

 small disks; fingers short, 

 first shorter than second, 

 which is about as long as 

 fourth ; length of the fourth 

 toe contained about 3 to 3'/2 

 times in the distance be- 

 Fig. 17. Xenorhina oxycephala (Schlg.), X'- tween vent and posterior 



border of the eye; third toe 



much longer than fifth; subarticular tubercles and the small 



nner metatarsal tubercle indistinct, no outer metatarsal tubercle; 



the heel reaches the axil or the eye, the tarso-metatarsal 



articulation the tip of the snout or beyond. 



Skin smooth ; snout with or without small warts. 

 Black, brown, greyish violet or red above (in life), with or 

 without a light vertebral line; grey, brick-red, or orange, 

 more or less marbled with brownish, beneath; a dark spot 

 around the vent and on a part of the posterior surface of 

 the thighs; the sides sometimes white. Length 47 mm. 



