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thigs marbled with dark brown on a dirty white ground ; beneath immacu- 
late, greyish rose-coloured. 
2. Cornufer corrugatus, A. Dum. 
A single specimen from the Island Bertrand between Berlinhafen and 
Friedrich- Wilhelmshafen. Leneth 28-5 mm. 
Agreeing with the deseriptions, but with this difference that the tibio- 
tarsal articulation reaches beyond the tip of the snout. 
Coloration. Head and back indistinetly spotted with blackish green 
on a ereenish grey ground, a dark marking between the upper eyelids is 
especially noticeable : limbs reddish brown, with blackish green cross-bars ; 
both jaws dirty greenish grey, speckled with dirty white ; lower parts uni- 
form pale brown, scattered with minute dark points. 
"This genus established by TscHupr,!) which has already undergone so 
many changes, may, we submit, be defined with precision. Mr. G. A. Bov- 
LENGER remarks in his generic diagnosis ?) : cOmosternum and sternum with 
a bony style,, but he does not point out that the style of the omosternum 
(episternum, epicingulare BRÜHL ") before the procoracoideum is split into 
two, as noticed by Dr. GÜNTHER 9) in the deseription of (Gornmufer ( Platy- 
mantis) vitianus, A. Dum. ethe manubrium sterni styliform, and bzfid be- 
hind for the artieulation with the clavicless;. My investigations confirm 
the latter statement in the C. corrugatus (pl. X. fig. 1. ost.) and therefore 
this statement must be added to the generie definition and if there are 
specimens with simple bony style, they must be separeted as a new genus. 
It by all means would be desirable to submit the sternal apparatus to a 
careful examination based on all specimens from different localities, be- 
cause it is not impossible, that forms at present united as one species may 
be separeted on this ground. 
Another generiec character of Cornufer noticed by BOULENGER viz. 
the cterminal phalanges T-shaped, is also present in (. corrugatus (pl. 
xs 29 
Fam. ENGYSTOMATID 4. 
3. Sphenophryne birói, n. sp. (Pl. X. fig. 3.) 
A young (8-5 mm. long) and one adult (17 mm. long) specimen from 
near Friedrich- Wilhelmshafen. 
1) Classif. d. Batrachier, Mém. Soc. Natur. de Neuchatel, II. 1838. Sep. p. 28. 
") Catal. Batr. Salient. London 1858, p. 95. 
3) Zootomie aller Thierklassen, Wien 1880, Lief. 17, tab. LXVIII, fig, 4 and expl. 
1) Catal. Batr. Salient., London 1858, p. 95. 
