5. SPHEMOPHRr^E. — 0. CAtOPHRYNTTS. 157 



1. Melanobatrachus indicus. 



Melanobatracliiis indicus, Bcddonie, I. c. 



iSnout short, blunt, with rather indistinct can thus rostralis; 

 intcrorbital space broader than the upper eyelid. Fingers short, 

 depressed, first much shorter than second ; toes rather short, de- 

 pressed, one-third -Nx-ebbcd ; subarticular and metatarsal tubercles 

 very indistinct. The hind limb being carried forwards aloug the 

 hod}', the tarso- metatarsal articulation reaches in front of the eye. 

 Upper surfaces tubercular; sides and loAver surfaces smooth. 

 Black ; tubercles of back greyish ; belly dotted with greyish ; a 

 large whitish (scarlet) spot on the lower surface of the thigh. Male 

 with a subgular vocal sac. 



S.W. India. 



(t. S- Auamallays, 4000 ft. Col. Beddome [P.]. (One 



of the types.) 

 b. (S . X. Travaucore. Col. Beddome [P.]. 



c-(j. d, $ , & hgr. S.W. India, 3000- Col. Beddome [C.]. 

 4500 ft. 



5. SPHENOPHRYNE. 



Sphenophvyne, Peters c^- Doria, Ann. Mus. Genov. xiii. p. 430. 



Pupil horizontal. Tongue heart-shaped, free behind. Vomerine 

 teeth none. Tympanum distinct. Fingers and toes free, the tips 

 dilated into distinct disks. Outer metatarsals united. Coracoids 

 dilated, precoracoid weak ; no omosternum ; sternum a cartilaginous 

 plate. Sacral diapophyses dilated. 



Xew Guinea. 



1. Sphenophryne cornuta. 



Spbenophryuf comuta, Peters i)- Doria, I. c. pi. 7. f. 4. 



Physiognomy of Ili/la aurantiacu. Snout pointed, with distinct 

 canthus rostralis : loreal region nearly vertical ; tympanum one 

 third the diameter of the eye. First finger much shorter than 

 second ; tips of fingers large, of toes rather smaller ; no prominent 

 metatarsal tubercles. The hind limb being carried forwards along 

 the body, the tibio-tarsal articulation reaches between tiie eye and 

 the tip of the snout. Skin smooth above, beneath with small scat- 

 tered tubercles : a smaU spiniform tubercle on the upper eyelid. 

 Brown above, blackish spotted and marbled ; an irregular blackish 

 hne from the chin to the ventral region. 



X. Guinea. 



G. CALOPHRYNUS. 



C'alophryuus, Tschudi, Batr.-^.SQ; Giinth. C'«^p. 54; Cope, Jour n, 



Ac. Philad. (-I) \i. 1807, p. 195. 

 Berdmorea, Stolkzka, Proc. As. Soc, 1872, p. 14G. 



