Type specimens in the Leiden Museum examined. 

 Habitat: New Guinea (Lobo ; Idenburg riv. ! ; Sermowai 

 riv., +70 and 400 m. !; Humboldt bay !; Mosso riv. !; Clyde riv.). 



12. Asterophrys Tschudi. 



(TsCHUDi, Mem. Soc. Sc. nat. Neuchatel, II, 1839, p. 45, 82). 



Pupil horizontal. Tongue large, circular, entire, free at the 

 sides and slightly behind. Palate toothless. A denticulated 

 transverse dermal ridge across the palate, in front of the pharynx. 

 Tympanum feebly distinct. Fingers and toes free, the tips 

 feebly dilated. Outer metatarsals united. 



No procoracoids, clavicles or omosternum. Terminal phalanges 

 obtuse. 



Distribution: New Guinea. 



Asterophrys turpicula (S. Miill.). 



Ceratophrys turpicola (S. Miill.), Schlegel, Abbild. neiier oder unvollst. bek. 



Amph., Diisseldorf, 1837 — 44, p. 30, pi. X, fig. 4. 

 Asterophrys turpicola Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., 1882, p. 444. 



Habit stout. Dermal ridge of the palate with about ten strong, 

 triangular denticles. Head large, triangular, with convex crown, 

 its length ^4 o^^ its width, which is half the length of head 



Fig. 18. Asterophrys turpicula (S. Miill.), type specimen, X ^• 



and body; snout vertically truncated, feebly projecting, as 

 long as the eye; canthus rostralis angular; loreal region high, 

 vertical, concave; nostril lateral, close to the tip of the snout; 

 interorbital space twice the width of the upper eyelid; tym- 



