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Fam. 2. BRACHYMERID^. 



Hylaplesina with free toes, dilated processes of sacral vertebra, 

 and without paratoids. 



One genus. South Africa. 



1. BRACHYMERTJS. 



Habit rather stout ; head small, rather short, cleft of mouth 

 moderate ; extremities short ; teeth none in jaws nor in palate, nor 

 a sharp bony ridge ; tongue oblong, broadest behind, slightly emar- 

 ginate. Tympaniim hidden ; eustachian tubes very small ; skin 

 smooth ; metatarsiLs without any tubercles. Fingers foiu-, toes five, 

 all free and dilated at the end. Sacral vertebra not miich extended. 

 South Afiica. 



Brachymerus, Smith, Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa. 



1. Brachymerus bifasciatus. 



Smith, I. c. pi. 63 ; Peters in Wiegm. Archiv, 1855, p. 58. 



Above deep liver-brown, with two red (in spirits yellowish) lon- 

 gitudinal bands ; beneath brownish, variegated ^\ath yello'wish ; ex- 

 tremities yellow-spotted. 



a. Adult : not good state. South Aii-ica. Presented by Sir A. Smith. 

 h-g. Adult and young. South Africa. Presented by Sir A. Smith. 



Fam. 3. HYLAPLESIDJE. 



Htlaplesina with free toes, cylindrical processes of sacral ver- 

 tebra, and -wathout paratoids. 

 One genus. Tropical America. 



1. HYLAPLESIA. 



Habit raniform ; head moderate, angular ; cleft of moxith mode- 

 rate ; extremities moderate ; teeth none in jaws nor in palate ; tongue 

 elongate, free and entire behind. Tympanum rather indistinct; 

 paratoids none ; skin smooth, or with small, flat, smooth tubercles ; 

 metatarsus with two feeble blimt tubercles. Fingers fom-, toes five, 

 all free and dilated at the end. Sacral vertebra not dilated. Males 

 with an internal subgular vocal sac. Tropical America. 



Dendrobates, Waql. Syst. Amph. p. 202 ; Dum. ^- Sibr. viii. p. 649. 

 Hylaplesia, sp., Boie, Ms, 1827, p. 294; Tschudi, Butr. p. 70. 

 Hyla, sp., Rana, sp., Calamita, sp., nuct. prior. 



