318 
Philippine Journal of Science 
1920 
Color in life. — Above brown, mottled and spotted with darker 
brown; somewhat lighter longitudinal areas on either side of 
back, and another between eyes followed by a darker area; 
snout darker ; lips barred with lighter and darker bars ; a dark 
brown temporal area; sides lighter than back, spotted with 
brown; foi^leg strongly barred with brown; third and fourth 
fingers barred with brown; hind legs cinnamon brown with 
darker bars; toes barred with darker and lighter brown; belly 
creamy white; chin dusky. 
Measurements of Cornufer laticeps sp. nov. Type and two cotypes. 
Type. 
Cotype. 
Cotype. 
i 
Length, snout to vent 
49 
40 
40 
Length of head 
17.5 
17.5 
Width of head 
20.2 
17.5 
17.5 
Width of upper eyelid 
6.6 
5.5 
6.2 
Diameter of eye 
7.6 
6 
6.2 
Length of snout . _ 
7.9 
6.8 
7.6 
Diameter of tympanum _ _ _ __ 
3 
3 
3.2 
Foreleg _ _ . _ _ _ 
29 
24 
24 
Longest finger 
12.2 
10.3 
10 
Hind leg 
81 
71 
70.6 
Femur __ 
25 
21 
21.6 
Tibia 
27 
23 
22 
Longest toe _ 
25.5 
20.6 
21 
Variation. — The listed measurements record the chief pro- 
portional differences which occur in three specimens. Three 
other specimens in the collection are of the same size as the two 
smaller specimens whose measurements are given. In color and 
markings they vary but little. 
This species is related to Cornufer jagori (Peters), from 
Samar, and possibly also to C. vitianus Dumeril, of the Fiji 
Islands. From Cornufer jagori it appears to differ in having 
shorter hind legs, the tibiotarsal articulation reaching about to 
nostril instead of beyond snout, the first finger being distinctly 
longer than second, the lingual papilla being present, in being 
much larger in size, and in having greater ruggedness of skin 
and width of head. 
Specimens were collected in the immediate vicinity of water, 
at low elevations, usually under leaves or logs along the edges 
of small mountain streams. Many other specimens taken were 
lost in shipment. Not rare at Bunawan. 
