1887.] HERPETOLOGY OF THE SOLOMON ISLANDS. 337 



BATRACHIA. 



CORNUFER DORSALIS, A. Dum. 



Faro Island. 



Batrachylodes, g. n. Rauidarum. 



Pupil horizontal. Tongue oval, free and feebly nicked behind. 

 No vomerine teeth. Tympanum distinct. Fingers and toes free, 

 the tips dilated into large disks. Distal phalanges T-shaped. 

 Omosternum and sternum with a bony style. 



Batrachylodes vertebralis, sp. n. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 3.) 



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

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

 the upper eyelid ; tympanum three fifths the diameter of the eye. 

 First finger shorter than second ; disk of third finger as large as the 

 tympanum; disk of toes smaller than of fingers; subarticular 

 tubercles feeble ; a rather indistinct, oval, inner metatarsal tubercle. 

 When the hind limb is pressed against the body, the tibio-tarsal 

 articulation marks the posterior border of the eye. Skin smooth 

 above and below. Grey-brown above; a fine whitish veitebral line, 

 continued along the upper face of the thigh and the outer side of the 

 tibia and tarsus; a whitish line on the canthus rostiahs, extending 

 from eye to eye; it is continued behind the eye, as a gradually 

 widening band, to the groin ; side of head and of anterior half of 

 body dark brown ; indistinct brown bands across the limbs ; lower 

 parts dirty white. 



From snout to vent 30 millim. 



A sina-le adult female, from Faro Island. 



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Hyla lutea, sp. n. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 4.) 



Tongue oval, slightly free and very slightly nicked behind. 

 Vomerine teeth in two strong transverse groups close together 

 between the choanse. Head much depressed, as long as broad or 

 slightly broader than long; snout rounded; canthus rottralis very 

 indistinct ; loreal region concave ; nostril nearer the tip of the snout 

 than the eye, its distance from the latter equal to its dameter; 

 interorbital space broader than the upper eyelid ; tympanum very 

 distinct, about two thirds the diameter of the eye. Fingers half- 

 webbed, the web nearly reaching the disks of the second and third 

 fingers; disks larger than the tympanum; no projecting rudiment 

 of poUex. Toes three-fouiths webbed, the disks as large as the 

 tympanum; subarticular tubercles small and flat; a small, flat, 

 inner metatarsal tubercle ; no cutaneous tarsal fold. When the hind 

 limb is pressed against the body, the tibio-tarsal aiticulation reaches 

 the tip of the snout or a litlle beyond. Skin smooth ; belly and 

 lower surface of thighs with large flat granules. Uniform lemon- 

 yellow above, white interiorly ; a white line along the outpr side of 

 the forearm and fourth finger and of the tarsus and fifth toe. 



