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broad, W-shaped figure of the same colour on the anterior 

 part of the back; sometimes a broad, white vertebral line; 

 limbs dark spotted, without distinct transverse bars; fingers 

 and toes yellow, with blackish rings; brownish yellow below, 

 throat, breast and thighs powdered or spotted with blackish. 

 Length 26 mm. 



Habitat: Halmahera, 670 — 760 m. 



4. Hylophorbus boettgeri (v. Meh.). 



Phrynixalus montanus (part.) Boettger, Abh. Senckenb. naturf. Ges., XXV, 



1901, p. 368, pi. XVI, figs. 9—9/'. 

 Gnathophryne Boettgeri v. Mehely, Termesz. Fiizetek, XXIV, 1901, p. 229, 



Habit stout. Tongue large, broadly oval, with a longitudinal 

 furrow, hardly free behind. Snout rounded, a little shorter 

 than the eye, high; canthus rostralis rounded; nostril much 

 nearer the tip of the snout than the eye; interorbital space 

 as broad as the upper eyelid; eye large; tympanum rather 

 distinct, about half the diameter of the eye. Fingers and toes 

 with large triangular disks, those of toes smaller than those 

 of fingers; first finger much shorter than second, which is 

 shorter than fourth; third toe longer than fifth; subarticular 

 and inner metatarsal tubercles feebly developed ; the heel nearly 

 reaches the nostril. 



Skin smooth, with smaller and larger tubercles on the 

 posterior part of the head, the upper eyelids, the shoulders 

 and the sides of the body. 



Brown above, with a yellowish white vertebral line and 

 some dark markings, among which a W-shaped spot on the 

 head, two white spots on the chin and one such spot in the 

 middle of the lower jaw; limbs with transverse series of black 

 spots; lower parts light brown; chin, throat, breast and lower 

 surface of limbs with large, chestbrown spots. Length 39 mm. 



Probably Boettger is right in not separating this species 

 from //. montanus. 



Habitat: Halmahera, 670 m. 



5. Hylophorbus rufescens Macl. 



Hylophorbus rufescens Macleay, Pioc. Linn. Soc. N.-S. -Wales, II, 1878, p. 136. 

 Man/op/iryne lateralis Boulenger, Ann. Mag. Nat, Hist., (6) XIX, 1897, p. X2, 

 pi. II, fig. 3. 



