BY DENE B. FRY. 



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I am unable, however, to place it definitely. The absence of a 

 sternal plate separates it from all members of the Brevicipitidii", 

 witli the exception of the African Hemisus, in which genus, the 

 clavicles and omosternum are well developed. If we put aside 

 consideration of the remarkable sternal apparatus, and turn our 

 attention to other characters used to differentiate genera, its 

 affinities appear to be equally divided between Hylophorhua 

 Macleay,* {Manto])hryne Blgr. et auct.), and Metopostira Mehely. 

 Its relationships are best shown by the following table. 

 Table showing the chief generic characters of the Indo-Malayan, 

 East Indian, and Papuasian genera of Brevicipitidse, in which 

 the clavicles and procoracoid cartilages are absent. 



Aphanlophryne Fry .. 

 Hylophorhiis Macleaj'. 

 (,'nat/iojihri/ne Mehely 

 Xeiiorltiiia Peters 

 MetopoMira Mehely .. 

 Cophila Meliely 

 CopiiilaCt) Wandolleckt 

 Phrynixa/ux Biittger .. 

 Pomatop'^ Barbour 

 C'oph i.val II f< Bottger .. 

 Phrynella Boulenger . . 

 GaMrophryneFiiTAngev^ 

 Microhyla Tschudi 

 Kaloii/a Gray 

 CaJiiilop.^ Boulenger . . 

 Phrynomanti-^ Peters.. 

 Xeno}>atrachns P. & D 



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* See Fry, Mem. Q'land Mus., ii., 1913, p. 48. 



tWandoUeck, Abh. v. Ber. d. k. Zool. u. Anthr.-Eth. Mus. zu Dres- 

 den, xiii., 1910, p. 11. 



J Stejneger, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiii., 1910, p. 16.5. It is here 

 shown that rTa.<!<rop/irj^ne Fitzinger, 1843, must replace Engystoma Fit7An- 

 ger, 1828, as the latter genus is based on Rana oralis Sehn., which was 

 also the type of Merrem's genus Brevictps, of 1820, 



