PELODYTES. 



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Fig. 67. 



(1876); Heron-Royer, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1878, pp. 128 

 & 299, pi. iii, and 1879, p. 229, pis. x and xi; Boulenger, 

 Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1880, p. 225, and Cat. Batr. Ecaud., 

 p. 438 (1882); Peracca, Boll. Mus. Torin., i, 1886, No. 1; 

 Ht'ron-Royer, Bull. Soc. Et. Sc. Angers, xv, 1886, p. 91 ; 

 Heron-Royer & Van Bambeke, Arch. Biol., ix, 1889, p. 277, 

 pi. xx, figs. 5— 12; Bedriaga, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc, 1889, 

 p. 533. and Aniph. Rept. Portug., p. 20 (1890) ; Boulenger, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc, 1891, p. 617, pi. xlvii, figs. 1 & 2; Bedriaga, 

 Ampb. Rept. Portug., Suppl., p. 11 (1893); Martin & 

 Rollinat, Vert. Dep. Indre, p. 349 (1894). 

 Pelodytes daudini, Bosca, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1880, p. 255. 



Vomerine teetli in two short transverse or slightly 

 oblique series on a line with the anterior borders of 

 the choauae ; these series either close 

 top-ether or nearer the choanaa than 

 each other. Tongue large, circular, 

 entire or feebly nicked behind. 



Head, much depressed, as long as 

 broad or slightly broader than long ; 

 snout rounded, projecting beyond the 

 mouth, as long as the diameter of the 

 orbit; canthus rostralis rounded; loreal 

 region grooved; nostril midway between 

 the eye and the tip of the snout or a little 

 nearer the latter ; eye large, prominent ; interorbital 

 space as broad as or a little narrower than the upper 

 eyelid, and equal to the distance between the nostrils; 

 tympanum usually moderately distinct, sometimes 

 hidden, one-half to three-fifths the diameter of the eye. 



Fingers rather elongate, somewhat swollen at the 

 end, third much the lougest, first a little shorter than 

 second, which is a little shorter than fourth ; basal 

 subarticular tubercles distinct; three palmar tubercles, 

 median smallest and circular. 



Hind limb rather slender ; the tibio-tarsal articu- 

 lation reaches the eye or between the eye and the 

 nostril ; tibia a little longer than femur, the heels 

 overlapping when the legs are folded at right angles 

 to the rhachis. Foot as long as or a little longer 

 than the tibia; toes slender, webbed at the base, the 

 web extending as a fringe along each side to the 



Open mouth. 



