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GEOGRAPHICAL ZOOLOGY. 



[part iv. 



Family 16.— PELODIIYAD^. (3 Genera, 7 Species.) 



General Distkibution. 



The Pelodryadse are Tree Frogs with neck-glands, and are 

 confined to the Australian and Neotropical regions. The genera 



are 



Phyllomedusa (3 sp.), South America to Paraguay ; Chirodryas, 

 Australia ; and Pelodryas (3 sp.), Moluccas, New Guinea and 

 Australia. 



Family 17.— HYLID^. (11 Genera, 94 Species.) 



The Hylidae are glandless Tree Frogs with a broadened sacrum. 

 They are most abundant in the Neotropical region, which con- 

 tains more than two-thirds of the species ; about twenty species 

 are Australian ; six or seven are Nearctic, reaching northward to 

 Great Bear Lake ; while one only is European, and one Oriental. 

 The genera are : — 



ITyla (62 sp.), having the range of the whole family ; Hylella 

 (1 sp.), Ololygon (1 sp.), Pohlia (2 sp.), Triprion (1 sp.), Opistho- 

 delphys (1 sp.), and Nototrema (4 sp.), are South American ; while 

 Trachyce2jhahts (8 sp.), is peculiar to the Antilles, except one 

 South American species ; Psmdacris (1 sp.), ranges from Georgia, 

 United States, to Great Bear Lake ; Litoria (7 sp.), is Australian 

 and Papuan, except one species in Paraguay ; Ceratohyla (4 sp.), 

 is only known from Ecuador. 



