PSEUDOPHRYXE. 



edge of the tarsus. The hind limb being carried forwards along the 

 body, the tibio-tarsal articulation marks the anterior angle of the 

 eye. Upper surfaces with smooth flat warts ; a flat parotoid. 

 Terminal phalanges anchor-shaped. 

 E. Ecuador. 



2. PSEUDOPHRYNE. 



Pseudophryne, Fitzing. Syst. Rept. i. p. 32: Gunth, Cat. p. 45 : Cope, 



Nat. Hit/, Rev. 1865, p. 103. 

 Phryniscus, sp., Dum. §■ Bibr. viii. p. 7-2. 



Pupil horizontal. Tongue elliptical, entire and free behind. 

 Vomerine teeth none. Xo tympanum. Fingers and toes free, the 

 tips not dilated. Outer metatarsals united. Xo omosternum ; 

 sternum cartilaginous. Diapophyses of sacral vertebra moderately 

 dilated. Terminal phalanges simple. 



Australia. 



Synopsis of the Species. 



I. One or two small rounded metatarsal tubercles ; tip of longest 

 toe reaching beyond the eye. 



Blackish brown above ; forehead yollo wish. 1. australis, p. 277. 

 Brown or olive above, variegated with 



darker 2. bibronii, p. 27S. 



Yellowish brown above ; sides blackish . . 3. eoriacea, p. 278. 



II. Two large, oval, compressed metatarsal 

 tubercles ; tip of longest toe not reaching 



beyond the eye 4. gitmtheri,T>. 279. 



1 . Pseudophryne australis. 



Pseudophryne australis, Gunth. Cat. p. 45. 

 Bombinator australis, Gray, Proc. Zoo/. Soe. 1835, p. 57 j Eyre, 



Journ. Exped. C. Austr. i. A/ip. p. 40", pi. 1. f. 1. 

 Phryniscus albifrons. Uuiii. $ Bibr. ix. p. 413, pi. 100. f. 3. 

 Pseudophryne australis, Keferst. Arch./. Niaturg. 1868, p. 271. 



Snout rounded, a little longer than the orbital diameter, without 

 eanthus roBtralis : interorbital space as broad as the upper eyelid. 

 Fingers short, first much shorter than second ; toes short, quite 

 free, without even a rudiment of fringe ; subarticular tubercles 

 not very prominent ; a small, not very prominent, rounded inner 

 metatarsal tubercle; outer tubercle none or very indistinct. The 

 hind limb being carried forwards along the body, the tip of the 

 Longest toe always reaches beyond the eye : the tibio-tarsal articu- 

 lation reaches the shoulder in the male, not so far in the Female. 

 Skin smooth, or with very small, round, flat warts on the back. 

 Blackish brown above ; forehead and crown, a streak along the 

 coccyx, a spot on the upper arm, and another on the thigh yellowish ; 

 beneath blackish, with large yellowish spots. Male with an internal 



