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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 

 List of specimens of Leptodactylus albilabris — Continued. 



Genus ELEUTHERODACTYLUS « Dumeril and Bibron. 



1841. Eleutherodactylus Dumeril and Bibron, Erpet. Gen., VIII, p. 620 (type E. 



martinicensis) . 

 1843. Hylodes Fitzinger, Syst. Rept., p. 31 (type //. martinicensis) (not of 1826). 

 1843. Euhyus Fitzinger, Syst. Rept., p. 31 (type H. rkordii). 

 1843. Lithodytes Fitzinger, Syst. Rept., p. 31 (type H. lineatus). 



This genus is usually, but wrongly, known as Hylodes. A genus of 

 this name was instituted by Fitzinger in 1826, h based upon two species 

 only, one of which must be the type. They were Ilyla granenhorstii 

 Fitzinger and Hyla ranoides Spix. The former is a nomen nudum and 

 was never described, the generic term Hylodes being thus restricted 

 to II. ranoides. Regarding the word Hylodes as improperly formed, 

 Wagler, in 1830, substituted'' Enydrobius, which consequently is a 

 synon}mi pure and simple. Tschudi, in 1838/ expressly recognizes II. 

 ranoides as the type of Hylodesf but at the same time he erected Elosia 

 for Liechtenstein's Ilyla nasus (or nasulus, as Tschudi writes), not 

 knowing that this species was identical with II. ranoides, the tj r pe of 

 Hylodes. This error has been perpetuated by later writers, chiefly 

 led by Dumeril and Bibron, and also possibly influenced by the fact 

 that Fitzinger himself, in 1843, followed the example of these authors 

 and substituted II. martinicensis, which was not described until 1838, 

 as type for the genus established by himself in 1826. 



As to the proper name for the genus the choice lies between the one 



a iXsvfjspo^, free; SaKruAoj, digit. 



& Neue Class. Rept. , p. 38. 



cNat. Syst. Amph., p. 202. 



<* Classification der Batrachier, p. 36. 



e " Dieses Genus [Hylodes], welches zuerst von Fitzinger, A. R. p. 38, aufgestellt 

 und hernach unnothiger Weise von Wagler, 8. A. p. 201, in Enydrobius umgeandert 

 wurde, wird durch die Spix'sche Hyla ranoides repriisentirt. " Tschudi, Classifica- 

 tion der Batrachier, p. 36. 



