482 COUNT M. G. PERACCA ON AN ITALIAN NEWT. [June 7, 



8. Hyla fallax, (Plate XXXIX. fig. 4.) 



Tongue circular, slightly nicked and free behind. Vomerine 

 teeth in two small round groups on a level with the posterior 

 bordervS of the clioana?. Head moderate, broader than long ; snout 

 rounded, as long as tlie diameter of the orbit ; canthus rostralis 

 indistinct ; loreal region very oblique ; interorbital space broader 

 than the upper eyelid ; tympanum distinct, half the diameter of 

 the eye. Outer fingei-s almost half-webbed ; no projecting rudi- 

 ment of pollex ; toes nearly entirely webbed ; disks nearly as large 

 as the tympanum : subarticular tubercles feeble. The tibio-tarsal 

 articulation reaches between the eye and the tip of the snout. 

 Skin smooth above and on the throat, granular on the belly. 

 Dark purplish-brown above, with white markings, viz. a broad 

 triangular blotch on the forehead, extending on the anterior half 

 of the upper eyelid, a band on each side of the back, from the 

 upper eyelid to the sacral region, and a subtriangular blotch on the 

 coccygeal region ; these markings enclosing a vase-shaped area of 

 the ground-colour; a white blotch above the heel, and some white 

 dots on the tibia. 



From snout to vent 27 millim. 



A single specimen from Katow, New Guinea ; received from 

 the Marquis Gr. Doria. 



This tree-frog bears a striking superficial resemblance to the 

 South-American H. leucophyllata, Beiris. 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 

 Plate XXXVIII. 



Pig. 1. Phrynohatrachus perpalmatus, p. 479. 



2. Arthrolcptis inoorii, p. 479. 



3. Pkrynixalus oxyrhinus, p. 480. 



4. Mantophryne robusta, p. 480. 



Plate XXXIX. 



Fig. 1. Hylodes alfredi, p. 480. 



1 a. „ „ Open mouth. 



2. Borborocaetes mexicaiius, p. 481. 



2 a. „ „ Open mouth. 



3. Hyla microcepkala, p. 481. 



4. „ fallax, p. 482. 



4. Note on an Italian Newt, Molge italica. 

 By M. G. Peracca, Ph.D., F.Z.S. 



[E«ceiTed May 31, 1898.] 



(Plate XL.) 



1 have recently described ' a new Italian Newt discovered by 

 me in the southern part of Italy. The kind permission of the 

 Zoological Society to have this Newt figured in the Proceedings 



1 Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Oomp. n. 317, 14 Maggio, 1898, vol. xiii. 



