292 BULLETIN 120, UXITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



LEPTODACTYLIDAE, a southern family (probably at least 

 250 species), known chiefly from South America and Central Amer- 

 ica, extending north into Texas (two species), and from the West 

 Indies, also well represented in Australia and Tasmania, also one 



genus Liopehna (two species), in New Zealand and one species in 

 Papua (fig. 228). Ueleophryne, from southern Africa, first de- 

 scribed as a Ranid, has recently been assigned to the Leptodactylidae. 

 It may, however, be a Ranid, retaining the " arciferous condition of 



