6 L. G. ANDERSSON, DR. E. MJÖBERGS EXPEDITIONS TO AUSTRALIA 1910—1913. 9. BATRACHIANS. 
Measurements of the largest specimen: 
Length between tip of snout and vent 25 mm. 
Breadth of head 8 mm. 
Diameter of eye 3,2 mm. 
Length of nose 2,8 mm. 
Diameter of tympanum 1,5 mm. 
Length of fore limb 14,6 mm. 
> of femur 10 mm. 
» of tibia 9,7 mm. 
> of tarsus with 4th toe 14.2 mm. 
Diameter of disk on the 32 finger 1,8 mm. 
> > > 4th toe 1.2 mm. 
My specimens do not appear to differ in any high degree from the two other 
species of this genus, hitherto described, Phr. montanus BOoETTGER from Halmahera, 
and Phr. birov MEHELY from New Guinea.! With regard to the colour they corre- 
spond rather well with Ph. montanus, which, however, appears to lack the characte- 
ristic white lumbar spot and the black lateral band; the colour of Ph. biroi is de- 
scribed and figured as quite dissimilar to that of my specimens. The limbs are 
longer in both species mentioned, the tibio-tarsal articulation reaching the front margin 
of the eye or beyond; in my specimens it hardly reaches the eye. In two specimens 
of Ph. montanus, the one only I mm., the other only '/2 mm. larger than my spe- 
cimen measured, the fore limbs are, according to a statement of BoETTGER, 17 mm. 
(14,6 in my specimen), the hind limbs are 39,4 and 42 mm. (in stead of 33,9) and 
the tibia 13,5 and 13 (instead of 9,7). In a specimen of Ph. biroi, measured by 
MEHELY, the hind limbs are 155 2, of the length of head and body; in my specimen 
they are only 136 24 of the same length. The tongue appears to be of the same 
shape in my specimens as in Ph. birot (>lang oval») but differs from that of Ph. 
montanus, in which it is »breit oval, nur in ihrem vorderen Drittel festgewachsen»>. 
The structure of the posterior part of palate of my specimens appears to be rather 
similar to that of the species mentioned, but the slightly arched transverse ridges on 
the anterior part of the palate behind the choane&, described in Ph. montanus as well 
as in Ph. birot, are not to be discerned. If the skin is removed, they are, however, 
well distinguishable and of the same shape as figured on the skeleton of the head 
of Ph. biroi. In MEHELY's diagnosis of the genus Phrynixalus he states, »Umriss 
des Trommelfells deutlich hervortretend», a characteristic which does not agree with 
my specimens, in which generally the tympanum is hidden or very sligthly visible. 
At last the habitat of the specimens now in question is the Australian continent, 
while, as mentioned, Ph. montanus is found in Halmahera and Ph. birot in New Guinea, 
! Zool. Anz. 1895 p. 133; Termes. Fugetek, Budapest 1901 p. 247. 
