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No vomerine teeth. Tympanum distinct. Fingers and toes 

 free, the tips dilated into large disks. Outer metatarsals united '). 



Omosternum and sternum with a bony style. No intercalary 

 ossicle between the penultimate and terminal phalanges'); 

 the latter T-shaped. 



Distribution: Solomon islands. 



I. Batrachylcdes vertebralis Blgr. 



Batrachylodcs vertebralis Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1887, p. 337, 



pi. XXVllI, fig. 3. 

 Batrachylodes vertebralis Barbour, Proc. New England Zool. Club, VIl, 1921, p. 95. 



Snout obtuse, short; loreal region nearly vertical; nostril nearer 

 to the tip of the snout than to the eye ; interorbital space broader 

 than the upper eyelid; tympanum ^5 the width of the eye. Disk 

 of third finger as large as the tympanum, disks of toes smaller 

 than those of fingers; first finger shorter than second; sub- 

 articular tubercles feeble; a rather indistinct oval inner meta- 

 tarsal tubercle; the heel reaches the posterior border of the eye. 



Skin smooth. 



Brown or yellowish above; a fine whitish vertebral line, 

 continued along the upper surface of the thigh and the outer 

 side of tibia and tarsus, and a whitish line on the canthus 

 rostralis and continued behind the eye to the groin, may be 

 present; side of head and anterior half of body sometimes 

 dark brown; indistinct brown bands across the limbs; lower 

 parts white or yellow. From snout to vent 30 mm. 



Habitat: Solomon islands. 



9. Rhacophorus Kuhl & v. Piass. 



(KUHL en V. Hasselt, Alg. Konst- en Letter-bode, 1822, p. 104). 

 Polypedatcs Tschudi, Mem. Soc. So. Neuchatel, II, 1839, p. 75. 



Pupil horizontal. Tongue deeply notched and free behind. 

 Vomerine teeth present '^). Tympanum usually distinct. Fingers 

 free or webbed, toes webbed ; tips of fingers and toes with 

 disks. Outer metatarsals separated by web. 



Omosternum and sternum with a bony style. An intercalary 

 ossicle between the penultimate and terminal phalanges; the 

 latter generally bifurcate. 



l) After a communication by Dr. Boulenger. 

 ■2.) Except sometimes in Rh. edentulus. 



