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comi^ressed, metatarsal tubercles. The hind limb being carried 

 forwards along the body, the tibio-tarsal articulation does not reach 

 the ej-e. Skin nearly smooth above. Above with numerous insu- 

 liforra dark-edged spots, arranged in cross bars upon the limbs. 

 Male with two external subgular vocal sacs. 

 Brazil. 



9. Paludicola kroyeri. 



Gomphobates kroyeri, Reinh. Sf LxUk. Vidensk. Medclel. 1861, p. 176; 



Steindachn. Novura, Amph. p. 11. 

 Leiiiperus epbippifer, Steindachn. Verh. zool.-hot. Ges. Wien, 1864, 



p. 277, pis. 14. f. 1, & 16. f. 5. 



Tongue elliptic. Vomerine teeth none. Head rather small; 

 snout rounded, as long as the orbital diameter ; nostril nearer the 

 tip of the snout than the eye : interorbital space not quite so broad 

 as the upper eyelid ; tympanum indistinct. Eingers moderate, first 

 not extending quite as far as second ; toes moderate, with slight 

 rudiment of web ; subarticular tubercles well developed ; a smaU 

 conical tubercle on the middle of the inner side of the tarsus : two 

 oval, compressed metatarsal tubercles. The hind limb being carried 

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

 the eye. Back with longitudinal, undulated, glandular folds ; skin 

 smooth beneath. Olive or bi'ownish above ; a broad dark stripe 

 from the eye to the groin ; upper lip with vertical bars ; back more 

 or less distinctly striped ; a more or less distinct blackish inguinal 

 spot ; hind limbs cross-barred. Male with a blackish throat and 

 two external vocal sacs ; the inner side of the first digit furnished 

 ■with brown rugosities during the breeding-season. 



S. America. 



a-b. S. Brazil. Prof. Reinhardt [P.]. 



•ft— $•. S i Amorica . 



10. Paludicola henselii. 



Gomphobates kroyeri, Hensel, Arch. f. Natiirg. 1867, p. 139. 

 Paludicola hensebii, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1872, p. 223. 



Closely allied to P. Tcroyeri, from which it differs in the following 

 characters: — The distance between the tarsal and the inner meta- 

 tarsal tubercles is less than that between the two metatarsal tuber- 

 cles. Dorsal folds nearly straight. Sides of the snout with a white 

 line between two blackish ones, as in Leiitodcwtijlus mt/stacimis. 



Rio Grande, Brazil. 



11. Paludicola marmorata. 



Loiuperus marmoratus, G'dnfh. Cat. pp. 22 & 13o. 

 Leiuperus marmoratus, IJi(ni. ^- Bibr. p. 421 ; D'Orb. Voy. Am6r. 



merid. pi. 15. f. 1-4; Tschudi, Faun. Per., Repi. p. 168. 

 viridis, Tschudi, I. c. p. 69 ; Peters, 3Ion. Berl. Ac. 1873, p. 623. 



