HATRACniA SALIENT! A. O 



1 . Pipa americana. 



Pipa nmeiieana, Sfha, i. 77. 1-4 ; Laia: Si/n. p. 25 ; Cui: R^gne Atiim. ; 



Dum. cV Bihr. viii. p. 773. pi. 92. f. 2 ; Merian, Ins. Sur. t. 59. 

 Rana pipa, Linn. Mus. Ad. Fried, p. 121, and Si/st. Nat. p. 354 ; Dmdj. 



Encycl. Mi'th. Erpct. p. ()(!2 ; Lacep. Quadr. Grip. i. p. GOO ; Bonnaf. 



Encycl. p. 14; Shaw, Zool. iii. p. 107. pi. 50, 51 ; Blumenb. Abhildy. 



t. .'56; Brcip-r, Ohscrr. Anat. Di.ss. Frees. Rudolphi, Berl. 181 i: 



Mayer, Nm\ Act. 1825, p. 527. t. 49. 



dorsifjora, Schneid. Hint. Amph. p. 121. t. 1, 2. 



Biifo dor.-iiji(>r, Latr. Kept. ii. p. 120; Baud. Hist. Rain. p. 85, aud 



Rept. viii. p. 172. 

 Pipa tedo, Merr. Tent. p. 179. 



curucuvu, Spix, Spec. Nov. t. 22. f. 1, 2. 



LcptopiLS a.sterodaetylus, Mayer, Anal. p. 34. 



Pipa dorsigera, Grarenh. Delic. p. 70. 



Asterodactylus pipa, Wagl. Syst. p. 199 ; Tschudi, I. c. p. 89. 



Olive-brown or blacki.sh, beneath \vhiti.sh, sometimes spotted. 



, Skeleton. Tropical America. 



Female with yoiinp; on the back. Tropical America. 



Female with young on the back. Tropical America. 

 . Male. Tropical America. Belly black, white-spotted. 



Male. British Guiana. Presented by Sir R. Schomburgk. Belly 

 pale, witli a dark central streak. 



Second Series. ACxLOSSA DIPLOSIPHONA. 

 Aglossa with separated ostia pharyngea of the eustachian tubes. 



Fam. 1. MYOBATRACHID^. 



Only one genus. 



1. MYOBATRACHUS. 



Teeth none, except two large horizontal fangs in the intermax- 

 illary bone ; tympanimi hidden ; paratoids none ; eustachian tubes 

 not united, behind the eyes. Fingers four, cyUndiical, tapering ; 

 toes five, not webbed. Sacral vertebra ? 



Myobatrachus, (Schlegel) Grai/, Frnc. Zoo/. Soc. 1S50, p. 9, and Ann. 

 Nat. Hist. 1851, p. 70. 



1. Myobatrachus paradoxus. 



(Schlegel) Gray, I.e. 

 Above brownish grey, beneath greyish. Swan River. 



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