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carried forwards along the body, the tibio-tarsal articulation reaches 

 the middle of the parotoid gland. The latter flat and thin. Colour 

 light brown, with a few dark speckles ; a spot on canthus rostralis. 

 New Mexico. 



2. PELOBATES. 



Pelobates, Wayl. Syst. Amph. p. 206 ; Tschudi, Batr. p. 83 ; Bum. <§■ 

 Bibr. viii. p. 475 ; Giinth. Cat. p. 40; Cope, Nat. Hist. Rev. I860, 

 p. 108, and Journ. Ac. Phi/ad. (2) vi. 1866, p. 81. 



Ciutripes, Midler, Tiedem. Zeitsehr. Phys. iv. p. 212, and Isis, 1832, 

 p. 336 ; Cope, Journ. Ac. Philad. (2) vi. p. 81. 



Didocus, Cope, I. c. 



Pupil erect. Tongue circular, slightly nicked and free behind. 

 Vomerine teeth in two small groups. No tympanum. Fingers free ; 

 toes extensively webbed, the tips not dilated. Outer metatarsals 

 separated by web. Inner metatarsal tubercle shovel-shaped. Omo- 

 sternum cartilaginous, rudimentary ; sternum with a bony style. 

 Vertebrae procoslian ; diapophyses of sacral vertebra very strongly 

 dilated ; sacral and coccygeal vertebrae confluent. 



Europe. 



1. Pelobates fuscus. 



Pelobates fuscus, Giinth. Cat. p. 40. 



Msel, Hist. Ran. p. 69, pis. 17-19. 



Bufo fuscus, Law. Syn. Rept. pp. 28 & 122 ; Schneid. Hist. Amph. 

 p. 196 ; Latr. Rept. ii. p. 109 ; Baud. Rain. p. 81, pi. 80. f. 1 , and 

 Rept. viii. p. 161 ; Cuv. R. A. ; Men: Tent. p. 187. 



Rana fusca, Meyer, Syn. Rept. p. 10 ; Sturm, Beutschl. Faun. iii. Heft 

 1 ; Gravenh. Belie, p. 32. 



alliacea, Shaw, Zool. iii. p. 146, pis. 41 & 42. 



Bombina marmorata, Koch, I. c. ; Hahn, Faun. Bote. pi. 21. f. b. 



Bonibinator fuscus, Fits. I. c 



Pelobates fuscus, Wayl. I. c. ; Bonap. Icon. Faun. Ital. ; Tschudi, I. c. ; 

 Bum. fy Bibr. p. 477; Fatio, Vert. Suisse, iii. p. 376; Schreiber, 

 Herp. Fur. p. 90 ; Be Betta, Faun. Ital., Rett. Anf. p. 71 ; Leydig, 

 An. Batr. p. 77 ; Lessona, Atti Ac. Line., Mem. CI. Sc.-js. $c. i. 

 p. 1077, pi. 3. 



Cultripes minor, Miil/er, Isis, xxv. p. 538. 



Pelobates insubricus, Comal. Atti Soc. Vent. Tent. ii. p. 44. 



Vomerine teeth in two straight or slightly oblique series between 

 the choanal Snout rounded, without cauthus rostralis : fronto- 

 parietal region bony, rough, convex. First and second fingers 

 equal ; toes entirely webbed ; tips of fingers and toes pointed ; no 

 Bubarticular tubercles. The hind limb being carried forwards along 

 the body, the tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the shoulder or the 

 angle of the mouth. Skin smooth. Brown above, marbled with 

 darker ; metatarsal spur yellowish brown. Male without vocal sac. 

 with a large elliptic gland on the upperside of the arm. 



Central E\irope. 



