3(3 REPTILES. 



Var. B. sardoa. Sldn wftrty ; spots ii'regular, I'ather confluent, 

 without whitish streak. 



It. Adult male. Sardinia. From the Leyden Museum. 



Var. C. Skin smooth ; spots confluent into broad longitudinal 

 bands ; a whitish dorsal streak. 



i. Adult female. Algiers. 



4. LEPTOBRACHIUM. 



Habit as in Lvalus, but extremities more slender. Skin granular. 

 Fingers completely free ; toes sliort, webbed at tlie base ; a small 

 blunt tubercle on the metatarsus. Tongue rhombic, free, and slightly 

 notched l)ehind. Vomerine teeth none ; eustacliian tubes moderate ; 

 tympanum hidden. Diapophysis of sacral vertebra very much dilated. 

 Java. 



Loptobrachium, TseJmdi, Batr. p. 81. 



1. Leptobrachium hasseltii. 



Rana hasseltii, Mull, in Mns. Lnf/d. Bat. 

 Leptobrachium hasseltii, Tschuli, I. c. 



Above brown, sides, and sometimes back, dotted with l^lack ; hinder 

 legs with indistinct narrow black cross bands. 



a. Adult. East Indies. From Mr. Frank's Collection. 



5. MEGALOPHRYS. 



Head and liody very much depressed ; outer edge of upper eyelid 

 prolonged into a horn ; cleft of mouth large ; extremities moderate ; 

 vomei'ine teeth scarce ; tongue circular, free and nearly entire behind. 

 Tympanum hidden ; eustachian tubes moderate. Fingers free ; toes 

 very shortly webbed ; no prominence on the first cuneiform bone. 

 Diapopliysis of sacral vertebra much dilated. Male mthout vocal sac. 

 East Indies. 



Megalophrys, Kuhl, Bull. Soc. Nat. ; War/l. Si/st. Atnplt. p. 204 ; 



TschucU, Batr. p. 82 ; Dum. ^Sf Bihr. viii. p. 456. 

 Ceratophrys, sp., Schlegcl, Ahbild. p. 29. 



1. Megalophrys montana. 



Megalophrys montana, Kuhl, 31ns. Luf/d. ; JFar/l. Si/st. p. 204 ; 



Tschudi, I. c. ; Dum. ^- Bihr. p. 458 ; Cantor, C'atal. of Mai. Hept. 



p. 140. 

 Ceratophrys montaua, Schleg. Ahhdd. t. 9. f. 3. 



01ive-bro^vn, with a triangular blackish spot on the head ; heUy 

 marbled with dark brown, or uniform dark brown. Sldn with 

 scattered cutaneous appendages. 



