3. PELODYTES. 4. BATEACHOPSI8. 439 



distinct eanthus rostralis ; tympanum much smaller than the eye. 

 Fingers and toes rather slender ; first finger shorter than second ; 

 toes webbed at the base and fringed, the fringe being greatly deve- 

 loped in the breeding male ; subarticular tubercles rather indistinct ; 

 three palmar tubercles ; a very small inner metatarsal tubercle. 

 The hind limb being carried forwards along the body, the tibio- 

 tarsal articulation reaches the eye, or between the eyeand the tip 

 of the snout. Upper surfaces with smooth flat warts ; a glandular 

 fold above the tympanum ; an angular fold on each side of the breast 

 near the arm, connected with its fellow by a very distinct cross 

 fold : lower belly and under surface of thighs granular. Greyish or 

 olive above, with small green spots ; a rather indistinct X- sna P e <l 

 light figure on the front part of the back ; lower surfaces white, 

 immaculate. Male with a subgular vocal sac : during the breeding- 

 season, the chin, the granules of the belly, and the lower surface of 

 the toes with blackish rugosities ; five pairs of rugose blackish 

 plates — one on the side of the breast,, one on the lower side of the 

 breast, one on the inner side of the forearm, and one on each of 

 the two inner fingers. j^ . __^__ y, . 



France ; Spain and Portugal/ {y A-J^^^^i^o-**^*} <=<S *<^o4ts 



a. 6- Paris. M. G. A. Boulenger[P.]. 



b. 2- Nantes. 



c-d. Hgr. France. Paris Museum. 



e. Many spec, tf $ • Valencia, Spain. Lord Lilford [P.]. 



4./batrachopsis : ) // ^^Ayi^^-c^cef, 



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

 Vomerine teeth in a long transverse series behind the choanae. 

 Tympanum distinct. Fingers free ; toes slightly webbed at the 

 base, the tips not dilated. Outer metatarsals slightly separated. 

 Omosternum cartilaginous ; sternum a small cartilaginous plate. 

 Vertebrae proceelian ; sacral vertebra with rather strongly dilated 

 diapophyses, and two condyles for articulation with coccyx. 



New Guinea. J? „ /? , 



1 .(Batrachopsis)melanopyga. 



Asterophrys melanopvga, Doria, Ann. Mas. Civ. Genov. vi. 1874, 

 p. 366, pi. 12. f. K • Peters fy Doria, eod. ioc. xiii. 1878, p. 417. 



Vomerine teeth in a strong, transverse, straight or slightly arched, 

 ■arcely interrupted series just behind the choanae, not extending 

 gatwards beyond the latter. Head large; snout rounded, with 

 angular eanthus rostralis and very oblique loreal region ; interorbital 

 gpace as broad as the upper eyelid : tympanum more or less distinct, 

 vertically oval, its vertical diameter three fourths the width of the 

 eye. Fingers slender, first and seeond cipual : toes slender, webbed 

 at tlu base, the tips slightly swollen : subarticular tubercles strong ; 

 a small, blunt, inner metatarsal tubercle. The hind limb being 



