BY C. W. DE VIS, M.A. 



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tlie fourth, which is short ; two metatarsal tubercles, the outer 

 small ; skin smooth above, granulated beneath, more coarsely on 

 the abdomen. Lead-blue to olive-brown; beneath rufous or buff 

 — in young examples, paler on the throat and purplish on the 

 under and hinder surfaces of the thighs ; — on and behind the 

 angle of the mouth a short line, or series of spots, white ; a 

 spot on the arm (nearly constant), and a line along the hinder 

 edge of the fore-arm white; a group of small white spots on 

 the groin, sometimes extending round the coccyx ; occasionally 

 a few scattered white dots on the back, and a large one on 

 each side of the throat. 



Lines. Lines. Measurements. Lines. Lines. 



Measurements . 



Total length ... 32 



Length of head... 8 



Length of snout 4 



Interorbit ... 9 



20 



Hind limb 

 Hind foot 

 Fore limb 

 Fore foot 



42 

 19 

 17 



8 



28 

 13 

 11 



5f 



Locality, Gympie. Collected by Mr. H. F. Wallmann. 

 Hyla nobilis. 



Vomerine teeth in two very small groups behind the level of 

 the" choanae ; tongue very large, bilobed on the free hind 

 edge ; head longer than broad ; snout moderately depressed, 

 obtusely pointed, produced ; nostrils nearer to the tip of the 

 snout than to the eye ; tympanum two-thirds of the eye ; 

 fingers free, narrow, disks very small ; toes fully webbed, the 

 web reaching the disks of the third and fifth ; fourth toe elon- 

 gate, disks small ; inner metatarsal tubercle moderate oval, 

 outer none ; skin above rugose, beneath smooth. Reddish-grey 

 above, beneath boldly marbled black and white, in the young 

 especially on the throat and chest, the marbling growing more 

 diffuse with age, and almost lost in large examples ; frenal 

 region blackish ; side of the body from the tympanum black 

 edged above with a white line, running from the tip of the snout 

 on the edge of the upper eyelid and backAvards — in youth, 

 similarly edged below ; — lips spotted with white ; fore and hind 

 surfaces of limbs mottled with black, upper surface of limbs 

 with a few broad cross-bands. 



Measurements. 

 Totallength ... 

 Length of head 

 Breadth 



Length of snout 

 Interorbit 



Lines. 

 26 

 10 

 9 

 5 

 6 



Measurements. 

 Hind limb . 

 Hind foot 

 Fore limb 

 Fore hand 



Lines. 

 44 

 20^ 

 15 i 



Locality, Cape York. Collected by Mr. K. Broadbent. 



