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Chiasmocleis n. g. 
Pupil round. Tongue elliptic, entire, free in its posterior half. Vo¬ 
merine teeth none. A short dermal ridge in front of the oesophagus bet¬ 
ween the minute auditory tubes. Tympanum hidden. Fingers and toes 
free, the tipes not dilated. Outer metatarsals united. Maxillaries separa¬ 
ted by the praemaxillaries. Precoracoids present, cartilaginous, arising 
from the inner edge of the coracoid and curving hooklike to the middle 
of the latter (Pl. XIII, fig. 4, pc) ; the front edge of the precoracoids shows 
an ossified, stylelike clavicle (Pl. XIII, fig. 4, cl), which reaches the cora¬ 
coid ; * no omosternum ; sternum an anchorlike cartilaginous plate. 
Diapophyses of sacral vertreba strongly dilated ; ileum much prolonged 
in front of the anterior edge of the diapophysis. Terminal phalanges 
simple. 
2. Chiasmocleis albopunctata Bttgr. 
(Pl. XIII, fig. 4, 5.) 
Engystoma albopunctatum Boettger, Zeitschr. f. Naturw., LVIII, 1885, p. 240 
Boulenger, Ann. & Magaz. Nat. Hist., (6) XIII, 1894, p. 347. 
General appearance Engystoma-like. Head small. Snout subacumi¬ 
nate, moderately projecting, once and a half the diameter of the eye. 
HSj^ril close to the tip of the snout, from the anterior corner of the orbit 
in a distance equal to the diameter of the latter. Frenai region slightly 
oconcave. Interorbitale space three times or a little more as broad tha 
nhe upper eyelid. Fore limb much longer than its distance from the tip 
of the snout. Fingers moderately elongate ; first much shorter than 
second, the latter equal with the fourth. Hind limb stout; the tibio-tar- 
sal articulation reaches the shoulder. Toes without any web, the tips 
blunt; subarticular tubercles slightly prominent; inner metatarsal tu¬ 
bercle oval, distinct, the outer absent. Fifth toe much shorter than third. 
Skin smooth, along the middle line of the head a slight furrow. Dark 
chestnut-brown above with many white spots on the back and limbs ; on 
the snout a A-like white marking, on the upper eyelid some white spots 
top of the head without spots (Pl. XIII, fig. 5); beneath leatherbrown 
with minute dirty white spots all over. 
Two specimens from Villa Sana, collected in April 1903. Length of 
both specimens 26 mm. from snout to vent. 
* In this point differs from the New Guinean Sphenophryne, where the ossi¬ 
fied clavicula does not reach the coracoid (v. Méhely, Természeti’. Fűz., XXIV, 
1901, pl. X, fig. 2). 
