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I refer this new species to the genus Sphenophryne, which is named 
in honour of its discoverer, according to the advice of Mr. G. A. BOULENGER 
although from its sternal apparatus. it would perhaps have been better to 
form a new genus for its reception. It is namely remarkable, that beside 
the outer edge of the weak, cartilaginous knee-shaped procoracoid, there 
is a small, thin, longish coverbone, which according to GEGENBAURR !) can 
only be regarded as clavicula. PETERS £ Donra ?), the creators of this genus 
do not make any remark on this point, neither does Mr. BouLENGER in the 
Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia nor in his description of a new species 
(Sph. anthonyi) fromn New-Guinea, which appeared a few months ago ?). 
On that account I must assume, that this character has not yet been ob- 
served by anybody, which is not to be wondered at since the clavicles are 
only to be seen on a careful microscopical preparation. 
In other characters besides the sternal apparatus as given by PETERS 
k DoRra and by BouLENGER this frog agrees with the deseriptions with this 
one difference, that the tongue is not heartshaped, but longish oval and 
perfectly entire, same as has been observed by Mr. BourENGER in Spheno- 
phryne anthonyi ; therefore the heartshape of the tongue cannot be regar- 
ded as a generic character. 
Description : 
Habit Raniform. Head large, convex above, wide behind ; body short; 
limbs rather stout. Sönout short, about egualling the horinzontal diameter 
of the orbit, convex above, in front of the nostrils shortly pointed, between 
them sunk, its sides steeply sloping; canthus rostralis rounded ; nostrils 
round, ond a line with the canthus rostralis, the distance between them 
and the orbit double that from the tip of snout; the interspace between 
the nostrils about egual to that between the latter and the orbit. Eyes large, 
projecting, pupil horizontally elliptical; the distance between the upper 
eyelids double the width of one upper eyelid. Tympanum roundish, imme- 
diately at the hinder angle of the orbit, its diameter scarcely greater than 
one third of the horizontal diameter of the orbit. Fingers guite free; bet- 
ween the toes a very small rudiment of web. Tips of fingers and toes dilated 
into moderate diks, those of the fingers a little larger; the disks on their 
front edge flat rounded, egual at most to the tympanum. First finger con- 
siderably shorter than the second, second and fourth egual, third the longest. 
Toes gradually increasing in length from the first to the fourth, fifth egual to 
the third. No subarticular or metatarsal tubercles. The tibiotarsal articula- 
1) Grundriss d. vergl. Anat., Leipzig, 1874, p. 491—493. 
") Ann. Mus. di Genova, XIII, 1878, p. 430. 
5) Ann. and Magaz. of Nat. Hist., ser. 6 vol. XIX, January 1897,-p. 10. pl. 
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