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n. Adult female: not good state. Andes of Ecuador. From Mr. 

 Eraser's Collection. 



Length of the body 1 £" ; length of anterior extremity U" • len"-th 

 of posterior extremity 3" ; length of fourth toe f ". The eggs are 

 voiy large, half the size of a pea, and there are only sixteen in one- 

 half of the ovarium. 



7. Hylodes luteolus. 



Litoria luteola, Gosse, A Natwaliisi's Sojourn in Jamaica, p. Hm. pi. 7. 

 Disks of all the feet vcrj^ small ; fourth toe extremely long ; head 

 somewhat pointed; vomerine teeth arranged in two cuiwed' lines 

 whose convexity is forward, scarcely interrupted at their meetin'^ 

 angle ; posterior half of tongiie round and free. Coloui- pale Iniff 

 studded Mith minute dark specks, irregularly scattered, accumulated 

 m the fonn of bands across the legs and thighs. A band of deep 

 bro^\^l passes from the muzzle through the eye, and is lost about 

 the middle of the side. 



a. Adult: not good state. Jamaica. Presented by Mr. Gosse. 



/'. Adult : very bad state. Jamaica. 



c. Adult. Jamaica. Presented by Captain Parrj-. 



(L Adult : not good state. Jamaica. 



8. Hylodes leptopus. 



Batrachvla leptopus, BfU, Zool. of the Beac/le, Rept. p. 4.3. pi. 18. f. 5. 

 Tongue free behind ; vomerine teeth in two oblique groups between 

 the interior nostrils; tympanum distinct, small, roimd; toes de- 

 pressed, rather dilated, tnincated and nicked at the tip; lino-ers 

 slightly webbed at the base ; toes very slightly webbed (?) • hinder 

 edge of the thigh M-ith scattered glands. — Bell, 

 fi. Very bad state. Ya.ldi\aa. Presented by Charies Dar'n-in, Esq. 

 Neither the description of Professor Bell, nor what I myself 

 could see in the badly preserved specimen, can justify the sepa- 

 ration of this species as a different genus. 



4. PLATYMANTIS*. 



Vomerine teeth. Skin smooth, or ^vith narrow folds ; no large 

 gland. Disks rather small ; fingers and toes free. Tj-mpanum di- 

 stinct ; eustachian tubes moderate ; tongue large, free and deeply 

 notched behind. Male without vocal sac. Feejee and Philijipine 

 Islands. 



Hylodes, sp., A. Dvmerih 



1. Platymantis vltianus. 

 IIylode.s_ vitianus, {Bibr.) A. Dum. Aim. Sr. Kat. 3 s^rie, Zool. xix. 

 P,- J^"' Jc^W- 4'' Ouich. Rept. in Vol/, au Pole Sad par Diimont- 

 (fUrvil/e, p. 2G. pi. 1. f. 4, 4 A. 



Vomerine teeth in two oblique series behind the inner nostiils. 

 * irXarvs flat, and ftavrif Tree-frog. 



