1. rip a. 459 



1. Pipa ainericana. 



Pipa americana, Gunth. Cat. p. 3. 

 Seba, i. 77. 1-4 ; Marian, Lns. Sarin, t. 59. 

 Eaim pipa, Linn. MUs. Ad. Frid. p. 121, and S. N. p. 354 ; Shaw, 



Zool. iii. p. 107, pis. 50 & 51 ; Blumenb. Abbild. pi. 36; Breyer, 



Observ. Anat. Diss. Frees. Rudolphi, Berl. 1811 ; Mayer, Nova 



Acta, 1825, p. 527, pi. 49. 

 Pipa americana, Law: Syn. Rept. p. 25 ; Cut: R. A. ; Dum. 8f Bibr. 



p. 773, pi. 92. f. 2. 

 Rana dorsigera, Schneid. Hist. Amph. p. 121, pis. 1 & 2. 

 ISufo dorsiger, Daud. Rain. p. 85, and Rept. viii. p. 172. 

 Pipa tedo, Merr. Tent. p. 179. 



Pipa curucuru, Spi.v, Spec. Nov. Test. Ran. pi. 22. f. 1 & 2. 

 Leptopus asterodactylus, Mayer, Anal. p. 34. 

 Pipa dorsigera, Gravenh. Delic. p. 70. 

 Asterodactylus pipa, Wayl. Si/st. Amph. p. 199 ■ Tschudi, Batr. p. 89. 



Head extremely depressed, triangular ; eye minute ; one or two 

 short tentacles on the ripper lip, in front of the eye ; a large dermal, 

 flap at the angle of the mouth, sometimes another at the tip of the 

 snout. Fingers veiy slender, suhequal in size ; toes very broadly 

 Webbed, third and fourth nearly equal; no subarticular tubercles; 

 n blunt inner metatarsal tubercle. The hind limb being carried 

 forwards along the body, the tarso-metatarsal articulation reaches 

 the eye or not so far. Skin covered with small tubercles. Olive- 

 brown or blackish above ; beneath lighter, sometimes white-spotted, 

 or with a black stripe along the middle of the belly. 



Guianas ; Brazil. 



Sternal apparatus. 



a. cJ. Grenada IsL 



b. J . British Guiana. Sir ft. Scliomburgk [P.]. 

 c < ( h ''■ 6 $• Surinam. 



f. $. Tropical America. Sir A. Smith [P.], 



ijji. 2. Tropical America, 



i. Skeleton. ? Mr. Damon. 



