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uniform or spotted with yellow, or yellowish marbled and 

 reticulate with dark brown. Male without vocal sacs, with a 

 lisht line alono* the chin and throat. 



From snout to vent 45 miilira. 



Several specimens. 



LlOPHRTNE, g. n. Engystomatidarum. 



Pupil horizontal. Tongue large, oblong, extensively free 

 and nicked behind. Two oblique series of vomerine teeth 

 behind the level of the choan^e. Two dermal transverse 

 ridges in front of the oesophagus, the second strongly denticu- 

 late. Tympanum distinct. Fingers and toes free, the tips 

 slightly swollen. Outer metatarsals bound together. Prse- 

 coracoid present, ossified, very slender; no omosternum, 

 sternum cartilaginous, small. Diapophyses of sacral vertebra? 

 moderately dilated. 



Liophryne rhododactyla. (PL II. fig. 2.) 



Head much broader than long ; snout shorter than the 

 orbit, rounded, with obtuse canthus and concave loreal region; 

 nostril a little nearer the tip of the snout than the eye; 

 interorbital space a little broader than the upper eyelid ; tym- 

 panum two thirds or three fourths the diameter of the eye. 

 Fingers and toes rather elongate, depressed ; first finger 

 shorter than second ; subarticular tubercles feebly prominent ; 

 a very indistinct inner metatarsal tubercle. The tibio-tarsal 

 articulation reaches the eye. Skin smooth. Dark purplish 

 brown, finely powdered with crimson above, spotted with 

 yellowish beneath ; a very indistinct fine light vertebral line ; 

 a crimson spot above the vent ; fingers and toes crimson 

 above. 



From snout to vent 60 millim. 



Three specimens. 



Liophryne hrevipes. 



Closely allied to the preceding, but differing in the much 

 shorter limbs with shorter digits, the tibio-tarsal articulation 

 reaching only the shoulder. A pair of curved dermal folds 

 from the posterior border of the head to between the shoulders. 

 Grey-brown above, pinkish on the sides of the back ; sides 

 of head dark brown ; belly greyish, marbled with brown, with 

 a fine light median line ; throat vinaceous red. 



From snout to vent 22 millim. 



A single specimen. 



