AND BATRACHIANS OP THE SOLOMON ISLANDS. 53 



a. ?. 



millim. milliin. 



From snout to vent 59 73 



Head 21 27 



Width of head 20 25 



Fore limb 39 48 



Hand 16 20 



Hind limb 94 116 



Foot 28 37 



This species was founded on two specimens — a male from the Solomon Islands, 

 presented by the late Gerard Krefft, and a female from San Christoval. A third 

 specimen, a female, was collected in Santa Anna by Mr. Guppy. 



COENUFEE, Tschudi. 



5. Cobnuper guppti. (Plate XL fig. 1.) 

 Cornufer guppyi, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1884, p. 211. 



The vomerine teeth are inserted on the posterior border of a small triangular base, 

 the anterior angle of which is on a line with the posterior edge of the rather large 

 choanse ; they form a short transverse, straight, or slightly oblique series. The 

 Eustachian tubes are not larger than the choanse. The tongue shows no conical 

 papilla. 



The general appearance is that of Bhacophorus maculatus, Gray. The head is large 

 and depressed, a little broader than the body ; its length is contained a little less than 

 thrice in the total length, and is a little less than its width. The snout, which is a 

 little longer than the diameter of the orbit, is rounded, not projecting, with distinct, 

 slightly curved canthus rostralis ; the loreal region is very oblique and concave ; the 

 nostril is much nearer the tip of the snout than the orbit. The eye is large and very 

 prominent ; the interorbital space is plane, and equals in width the upper eyelid. The 

 tympanum is very distinct, round, its vertical diameter slightly exceeding its horizontal, 

 and measuring three fifths the diameter of the eye ; the space between the orbit and 

 the tympanum is only one third the diameter of the latter in the male, one half in the 

 female. 



The fore limb, if stretched down along the body, reaches the vent. The fingers are 

 rather short, much depressed, and their tips are dilated into large, flat, round disks, 

 which, on the outer fingers, are nearly as large as the tympanum ; the inner finger is 

 the shortest, the second and fourth are equal, and the third exceeds the latter with the 

 length of the distal disk ; the subarticular tubercles are round, moderately large, much 

 flattened. The metacarpal tubercles are very indistinct. When the hind limb is 

 stretched forward the tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the anterior corner of the eye. 



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