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Toadlike; pupil horizontal; tympanum distinct, partly hidden 
or absent; fingers and toes partially or wholly webbed, tips 
dilated into distinct disks; outer metatarsals united; no omo- 
sternum ; sternum cartilaginous ; diapophyses of sacral vertebrae 
dilated; terminal phalanges T-shaped. 
The distribution of this genus is rather unusual, as far as it 
is known. Species are known from West Africa and from East 
Africa ; six species have been recorded from Borneo, one of which 
occurs also in the Natuna Islands and Singapore; one species 
is found in Malabar; and I have recently found a species in 
Mindanao. 
Nectophryne sundana, described by Peters from Borneo, has 
been considered as a doubtful species by both Boulenger and 
Roux; in his review of the genus the latter does not include the 
species but remarks; 
I conclude with a synoptic table for the determination of the known 
species of Nectophryne, not taking into consideration doubtful species, 
as e. g. Nectophryne sundana (Ptrs.) (Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. p, 281.) 
I have not been able to examine the only existing specimen of this species, 
which is preserved in the Berlin Museum and comes form Borneo. 
It is significant that Roux does not notice the record of this 
species from Mindanao, recorded by F. Muller and listed by 
Boettger.®® It would appear that this specimen has disappeared 
or, what is still more likely, has been referred to some other 
species or genus. At any event, I shall not include the species 
on the strength of the Muller report. Whether or not the spec- 
imen that Muller had before him was of the species here des- 
cribed is a matter of conjecture. 
Nectophryne lighti sp. nov. Plate 7, figs. 3 and 3a.. 
Type. — No. 189, E. H. Taylor collection ; collected at Bunawan, 
Agusan, Mindanao, P. L, July, 1913, by E. H. Taylor. 
Description of type. — Choanse moderately large, hidden under 
the overhanging jaw; body not especially slender; head slightly 
longer than broad; snout distinctly truncate with a groove be- 
tween the rather raised prominences in which the nostrils are 
pierced ; nostrils near extreme end of snout ; in profile the snout 
slopes back and down to mouth in a rather concave line; eye 
large, its length a little greater than the length of snout; tym- 
panum large, its greatest diameter about two-thirds that of eye, 
separated from eye by a distance equal to about one-third its 
"III Nachtr. Cat. Herp. Samml. Basel Mus. (1883) 7. 
" Ber. Senck. Nat. Ges. (1886) 125. 
