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ON NEW SPECIES OF HYLA. 



ON NEW SPECIES OE HYLA. 



BY 



C. W. DE VIS, M.A. 

 (Read on the 8th August, 1884). 



Htla fene strata. I 



Vomerine teeth in two straight series between the choanae ; 

 tongue snbcircular, notched on the free hinder edge ; head 

 broader than long ; snout depressed, sloping anteriorly ; nostrils 

 central between the eye and the tip of the snout ; the eye two- 

 thirds of the length of the snout, moi'e than its own distance 

 from the nostril, and equal to the interorbit ; tympanum two- 

 thirds of the eye ; fingers free, narrow, disks very small ; toes 

 less than two-thirds webbed, the fourth elongate ; inner meta- 

 tarsal tubercle large, shovel-shaped, outer none ; skin smooth, 

 granulate on perineum only, above olive-blue, beneath dirty- 

 yellow ; lips pale, minutely marbled with black ; flanks white, 

 spotted with black ; the front and hind surfaces of the thighs 

 with numerous broad black bars, connected by fine lines across 

 the upper surface ; fore and hind surfaces of the shanks and 

 arms with white-edged black triangular spots, similarly 

 connected 



Measurements. Lines. Measurements. Lines. 



Total length ... 

 Length of head 

 Breadth 

 Length of snout 

 Interorbit 



27 Hind limb 45 



11 Hind foot 19 



13 Fore limb 17 



5 Fore hand .. ... 7 



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Locality, Tweed River. Collected by Mr. T. Steel. 

 Hyla irrorata. 



Vomerine teeth in two small, rather distant groups behind 

 the choana?; tongue a broad ov^al, notched on its free hind edge; 

 head much broader than long ; snout truncated ; nostrils much 

 nearer to the tip of the snout than to the eje ; tympanum two- 

 thirds to three-fourths of the eye ; fingers broad, webbed at the 

 base, disks two-fifths of the tympanum; toes two-thirds webbed, 

 the web reaching the disks of the third and fifth and fringing 



