CATALOGUE 



BATEAOHIA ECAUDATA. 



BATRACHIA. 



Order I. ECAUDATA. 



In the perfect state, four limbs and no tail. 



Suborder I. PHANEROGI.OSSA. 



Eustachian tubes separated ; a tongue. 



Series A. FIRMISTER^STIA. 



Coracoids firmly united by a simple epicoracoid cartilage ; pre- 

 coracoids, if present, resting with their distal extremity upon the 

 coracoids, or connected with the latter by the epicoracoid cartilage. 



Fam. 1. Ranidse. Upper jaw toothed ; diapophyses of sacral 

 vertebra cylindrical, or very slightly dilated p. 3. 



Fam. 2. Dendrobatidse. Maxillary teeth none ; diapophyses of 

 sacral vertebra not dilated p. 149. 



Fam. 8. Engystomatidae. Maxillary teeth none; diapophyses of 

 sacral vertebra dilated p. i4g, 



Fam. 4. Dyscophidae. Upper jaw toothed ; diapophyses of sacral 

 vertebra dilated p, 279^ 



Series B. AECIFEEA. 



Coracoids and precoracoids connected by an arched cartilage 

 (the epicoracoid), that of the one side overlapping that of the other. 



Fam. 5. Cystignathidae. Upper jaw toothed ; diapophyses of sacral 

 vertebra cylindrical, or slightly dilated p. 183. 



