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2. PELODYTES. 



Slcin covered with tubercles ; fingers free ; toes webbed (sometimes 

 very sliorth") ; no finger opposite the other ones ; the first cunoifonn 

 bone forming a rounded prominence. Tympanum (hstinct ; eusta- 

 cluan tubes moderate ; tongue oval, free, and nearly entire behind. 

 Vomeiine teeth. Male with an internal subgular vocal sac. France. 



Polodytes, (Fitz.) Bonap. Faun. Hal. ; Diim. 8r BIhr. viii. p. 400. 

 Al^-tcs, .?p., Tschudi, Btttr. p. 84. 

 Rnna, sp., anct. prior. 



1. Pelodytes punctatus. 



Ivana punctata, Daud. Main. p. 51. pi. IG. f. 11, and Bcpt. viii. p. 10(). 



plicata, Daud. Bain. p. 53, and Bept. p. 102 ; Cm: Bcf/nc Anim. 



daudini, Merr. Tent. p. 177. 



Alytos pmictatus, Tschudi, Batr. p. 84. 



Pelodytes punctatus, (Fitz.) Bonap. Faun. Bal : Dum. tS- Bihr. p. 40:?. 



Above spotted with black. 



a, h. France. From the Paris Museum. 

 c. Nantes. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 



3. DISCOGLOSSUS. 



Habit raiulbrm. Fingers free, a rudimentaiy thumb like a 

 tubercle; toes shortly webbed in the female, half-webbod in the 

 male. Skin smooth or ^\^th scattered flat warts. Tongue nearly 

 circular, entire and free behind. Vomerine teeth in a straight line 

 between the hinder edge of the internal nostrils. Eustachian tubes 

 small ; tympanum small, hidden. Male wathout vocal sac. Shores 

 of the Mediterranean. 



Discoglcssu.?, Otth. Neuc Dcnkschriftcn der Allgemeinen Schwciz. na- 

 turforsch. Geselkch. i. p. 0; Tschudi, Batr. p. 80; Dum. i^-^<6/'.p. 422. 

 Pseudis, .sp., Gc»^. 



1 . Discoglossus pictus. 



Discoglossus pictus, Otth. 1. c. f. 1-8 ; Tschudi, Batr. p. 80 ; Bonap. 



Faun. Bal. ; Dum. 8,- Bihr. p. 425. 

 Pseudis sardoa, Geni, Si/n. Rept. Sard. p. 24, and 3Iem. Accad. Sc. 



Tor. ser. ii. torn. i. p. 257. t. 5. f. 1. 2. 

 Discoglossus sardu.s, Tschudi, I. c. ; Bonap. Faun. Bal. 



Olive, darker marbled ; skin more or less covered with flat warts. 



Var. A. picta. Skin nearly smooth -. spots not confluent : some- 

 times with one or three whitish longitudinal streaks. 



a-e. Adult. Vienna. From Dr. Heckel's Collection. 

 f, q. Adult. Malta. From Mi.ss E. Attersoll's Collection. 



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