BREVIORA Mnaseem of Cooiparsitive Zoology Cambridge, Mass. ^r.w 7, 1965 Number 21S NEW FK()(;S OF THE ({ENUS CORNUFER (RANIDAE) FROM THE SOLOMON ISLANDS By AV ALTER C. Brown ^ INTRODUCTION Large collections made by Mr. Fred Parker on Bougainville and neighboring small islands are providing very consider-able additions to onr knowledge of the fauna of this area. The present paper reports three new species and one new subspecies of the genus Cornufer discovered by Mr. Parker. Future papers in this series will describe other novelties in both frogs and rep-tiles and will record important ecological and behavioral obser-vations. PLATY3IANTIS SYNONYM 1 ZED WITH CORNUFER In my revision of the amphibians of the Solomon Islands (Brown, 1952), I followed Boulenger (1918, p. 372), Noble (1931, p. 522), and Deckert (1938, p. 148) in maintaining Platy-mantis and Cornufer as distinct genera. My separation of the two genera was based primarily on the structure of the digital pads, as emphasized by Boulenger (1918, p. 372). On the basis of this character, the Solomon Islands representatives of this grou]i of ranid frogs, which were known at that time, fitted rather readily into one or the other of the two categories. Inger (1954, p. 348), on the basis of his experience with the Philippine ranid frogs, again placed Platymautis in the synonymy of Cor-nufcv. In so doing, he pointed out the difficulty of maintaining a separation of these two genera when a majority of the species is considered and the apparent evolution of the digital pads is taken into account. ITowevei-, he did note that the species of 1 Division (if Systi'iiia tic Biolnj^.v. StJiiil'onl I'lii \ nsit y ami Mi'iilo ('(illrf;c. Mciilo Parlv, Califitrnia.
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