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Distribution: Burma; Philippines; Borneo; Solomon 

 Islands; Fiji islands. 



Synopsis of the Species. 



A. Two metatarsal tubercles. 



I. Disks of toes small I. C. vitiensis p. 239. 



II. Disks of toes large 2. C. guppyi p. 240. 



B. One metatarsal tubercle. 



I. Heel reaching beyond tip of snout 3- C. u/iicolor p. 240. 



II. Heel reaching the nostril 4. C hahiensis p. 241. 



I. Cornufer vitiensis (Girard). 



Halophila vitiensis Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philadelphia (1852/53), 1854, 



p. 423. 

 Corni/fer dorsalis Boulenger (nee Dumeril), Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., 1882, 



p. 108, with figs. 

 Cornufer dorsalis Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1887, p. 337. 



Vomerine teeth in two oblique groups behind the level of 

 the choanae. Snout i '/j the length of the orbit; canthus 

 rostralis angular; interorbital space as broad as the upper eye- 

 lid; tympanum very distinct, half the width of the eye. Disks 

 of fingers large, of toes small; first finger shorter than second; 

 third toe longer than fifth ; toes webbed at the base ; subar- 

 ticular tubercles well developed, two metatarsal tubercles; the 

 heel reaches beyond the eye. 



Skin smooth, belly and lower surface of thighs granular; a 

 small tubercle on the upper eyelid. 



Greyish or reddish brown above, with more or less distinct 

 blackish markings on the back; sometimes a light Hne along 

 the middle of the head and along the hind limbs; hind limbs 

 with black cross-bars; lower surfaces more or less marbled 

 with brown. 



Boulenger identifies Halophila vitiensis Girard with Cor- 

 nufer dorsalis, described by A. Dumeril (Ann. Sc. Nat., (3) 

 XIX, 1853, p. 174) from Java. The type specimen of the latter, 

 however, preserved in the Paris museum, and examined by 

 me, does not agree with the species of the Fiji islands, after the 

 description of Boulenger, having small digital disks, first finger 

 longer than second, the heel reaching beyond the tip of the 

 snout and longitudinal folds on the back; the tongue bears 

 a papilla. It is a species of Rana [Platy mantis), the nearest 



