hatrachia salientia. 97 



1. Litoria freycineti. 



Litoria frevcineti, (£ibr. MSS.) Tschudi, Batr. p. 77; T))nn. S< Bihr. 



p. 504. pi. 88. f. 2. 

 Piilodytes affinis, Grmj, Zool. Misc. p. 56. 



Snout moderate ; hack nearly smooth ; nostiil in the middle be- 

 tween the eye and the top of snout. 



a. Port Essington. From Mr. Gilbert's Collection. 

 2. Litoria nasuta. 



Pelodytes nasutus, Gray, Zool. Mkc. p. 5(5. 

 Snout pointed ; back \vith short longitudinal plaits ; nostiil nearer 

 the top of snout than the eye. 



a. Adult female. Port Essington. From Mr. Gilbert's Collection. 

 h. Adult male. Port Essington. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 

 c. Half-gro^vn. Australia. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



2. PSEUDACRIS. 



Vomeiine teeth. Skin of back smooth. Disks very small ; fingers 

 quite free, none opposite to the others ; toes webbed at the base, no 

 web between the two inner ones. Tympanum distinct ; eustachian 

 tubes moderate ; tongue oval, slightly nicked behind. Male ^vith 

 internal vocal sac. Noi-th America. 



ChlorophiluP, Baird, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1854, p. 60. 



Pseudacris, Fitz. St/st. Rcpt. p. 31. 



Cystignathus, sp., Holhr. N. Amer. Ilcrpctol. iv. p. 107. 



Acris, sp., Dum. <*(• Bibr. viii. p. 509. 



Rana, sp., aucf. prior. 



1. Pseudacris nigrita. 



Rana nigi-ita, Lcconte, Ann. Li/c. Kat. Hist. New York, i. p. 282 ; Harlan, 



Med. Phi/s. Res. p. 105, and Joiirn. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. v. p. 341. 

 Acris nigrita, Dum. 4' Bibr. p. 509. 



Cvstignathus nigi-itiis, Holhr. N. Amer. Herpet. iv. p. 107. pi. 20. 

 Baird, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1054, p. 60. 



Skin of back smooth ; vomerine teeth in two rather oblique series 

 on the level of the hinder edge of the inner nostrils. Snout rather 

 prominent beyond the lower jaw. Blackish ash, with three or five 

 darker, sometimes internipted longitudinal bands ; a black streak 

 passing through the eye above the tympanum ; upper hp with a 

 whitish streak. 



a. Adult. Georgia. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 



b. Adult. Great Bear Lake. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



(Cliili), presented by Charles Darwin, Esq. The specimen apparently was in a 

 state of dee^y before it waj> put in spirits ; it belongs to a species of f 'ystignathus, 

 in too bad a condition to be determined, and the glands on the hinder side of the 

 thighs are merely the cysts of a parasitic animal. 



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