40 REniLES. 



Section II. Boinbinatorina. 

 0. oxiDACTYLA witli maxiUaiy teeth and imperfectly developed eai'. 



Fam. 1. BOMBINATORID^. 



BoMBiNATORiNA with wcbbed toes, \vith the processes of the sacral 

 vertebra dilated, and without paratoids. 



Sytwpsis of the Genera. 



1. Pelobates. First cuneiform bone forming a flat, sharp-edged 



spur. Europe. 



2. Bombinator. Tongue entirely adherent. Europe. 



3. Alsodes. Tongue free behind ; vomerine teeth in two groups. 



Chonos. 



4. Tehnatobius. No vomerine teeth. 



1. PELOBATES. 



Head above bony, rough; sldn with some flat smooth warts. 

 Fingers free ; toes webbed ; the first cuneiform bone fonning a flat, 

 sharp-edged spur. No tympanum, nor cavum tympani ; eustachian 

 tubes lateral, very narrow. Tougue circular, free, and slightly 

 nicked beliind. Vomerine teeth in an interrupted line between the 

 interior nostrils. Vocal sac none, but a large gland on the upper 

 arm of the male. Europe. 



Pelobates, Wa</1. Si/st. Amph. p. 206 ; Tschudi, Batr. p. 83 ; Bum. 4- 



Bibr. viii. p. 47-5. 

 Ciiltripes, 3IiiUer, in Ticdem. Zeifschr. fiir Physiol, iv. p. 212, and 



Isis, 1832, p. 33(1 

 Bufo, .sp., Rana, .sp., auct. prior. 



1. Pelobates fuscus. 



Riisd, Hist. Ran. iv. p. 69. t. 17-19 ; Giize, Europ. Faun. vii. p. 87. 

 Bufo fuscu.s, Laur. Si/n. R(pt. pp. 28, 122 ; Daubeni. Encycl. Mcth. iii. 



p. 595 ; Bonnat. Erpct. p. 15 ; Schncid. Hist. Amph. p. 196 ; Latr. 



Rq)t. ii. p. 109 ; Baud. Hist. Rain. p. 81. pi. 80. f. 1, and Rept. viii. 



p. 161 ; Cur. Reffne Anitn. ; Merr. Tent. p. 187. 

 Rana fusca, Mvytr, Sijn. Rept. p. 10; Sturm, Dmt^chl. Fauna, iii. 



Heft 1 ; Gravenh. Delic. p. 32. 



alliaca, Shatc, Zool. iii. p. 146. pis. 41, 42. 



Bombina marmorata, Koch, in Sturm, Dcutschl. Fauna, iii. Ilcft 5-6. 

 Pelobates fuscus, Wac/l. I. c. ; Bonap, Faun. Ral. ; Tschudi, I c. ; 



Cuvier, Rlustr. Rept. pi. 38. f. 1 ; Dum. ^- Bibr. p. 477. 



Crown and occiput convex. Spurs bro-rni or yellowish. 

 a, b. Adult. Hanover. Presented by Dr. J. E. Gray. 



c. Adult. France. From M. Parzudaki's Collection. 



d, e. Adult. Paris. Presented by M. Verreaux. 

 /, (J. Half-grown. Paris, 



h. Adult : skeleton. Bondv. 



