10 L. G. ANDERSSON, DR. E. MJÖBERGS EXPEDITIONS TO AUSTRALIA 1910—1913. 9. BATRACHIANS. 
From elbow to the tip of the longest 
finger 9.5 mm. 11.6 mm. 
Length of femur LO INLETT 
» of tibia 2 » 14.3 > 
» of tarsus with 4th toe 17.602 20565 
This new species is very well distinguished from other species of the genus 
Crimia by its long and prominent nose, the distinct glandular folds, the very short 
first finger, the colour etc. 
Phanerotis fletcheri Bror. 
(Figs. 3 a—Cc.) 
One young specimen, 20 mm. between snout and vent. Mount Tambourine, 
Southern Queensland, October 1912. 
In Jahrb. Nass. Ver. Wiesbaden, 1913, p. 75, I have recorded from New Guinea 
another specimen, only with great hesitation referred by me to this species, as ap- 
peared to differ in several points from BoULENGER's description (Proc. Linn. Soc. N. 
South Wales (2) 5, 1890, p. 594). Museumkustos Ep. LAMPE, Wiesbaden, has kindly 
permitted me to borrow and reexamine this species. It is evidently of the same kind 
as the specimen now in question, which shows the same differences from BoOULENGER'S 
description, and I am still rather uncertain, whether they are to be referred 
to Ph. fletcheri, or whether they represent a new species. I have preferred, however, 
to maintain my first opinion, as they in many points, and often in the smallest 
details, appear to correspond with the typical specimen. Further examinations of a 
richer material may settle this question, and for that purpose the specimen from 
New Guinea has been figured. 
The most important of the differences between my specimens and that of 
BOULENGER appeared to be the different development of the omosternum, but I 
have perhaps been mistaken about the importance of this characteristic. According 
to the description, the type-specimen of Phanerotis fletcheri has the omosternum »very 
small, cartilaginous», principally corresponding with that in Cryptotis, in which genus 
it shall be »rudimentary». In both specimens, examined by me, the omosternum is a 
long narrow style, shown in fig. 3 b, certainly cartilaginous, but well developed and 
in no case >»very small or rudimentary». An examination of the sternal apparatus 
in Cryptotis brevis proved, however, that the omosternum in this genus may be 
variable, and that it seems impossible to attach a generic or even specific impor- 
tance to this characteristic. Already in a specimen of medium size I found a firm 
median string as a continuation forwards of the sternum, and in a rather large spe- 
cimen (39 mm. between snout and vent) this string appeared as a distinct cartilaginous 
