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i ENGYSTOMATIDH. 
blackish brown, with large light-olive spots. Male with a subgular 
vocal sae. 
S. W. Hindostan. 
a. Many spec.: 5,9 ,& her. Malabar. Col. Beddome [ P.]. 
: (Types). 
b,c. 2 & her. Nilgherries. W. Theobald, Esq. [P.]. 
12. XENOBATRACHUS. 
Xenobatrachus, Peters § Doria, Ann. Mus. Genov. xiii. p. 482. 
Pupil ? Tongue heart-shaped, free behind. Palatine bones 
each with two large curved teeth. ‘Tympanum distinct. Fingers 
and toes free, with swollen tips. Outer metatarsals united. Sternal 
apparatus as in Callula. Diapophyses of sacral vertebra dilated. 
New Guinea. 
1. Xenobatrachus ophiodon. 
Xenobatrachus ophiodon, Peters § Doria, l. c. pl. 7. f. 5. 
Head small; snout rounded; tympanum half the size of the eye. 
First finger a little shorter than second; tips of fingers and toes 
swollen into very small disks; no metatarsal tubercles. The hind 
limb being carried forwards along the body, the heel reaches nearly 
the tip of the snout. Skin everywhere smooth. Brown above, irre- 
gularly spotted and marbled with blackish ; whitish beneath, the 
throat and chest reticulated with brown. 
N. Guinea. 
13. PHRYNOMANTIS. 
Brachymerus, Smith, Til. S. Afr., Rept.; Giinth. Cat. p.124; Cope, 
Nat. Hist. Rev. 1865, p. 102. 
Phrynomantis, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1867, p. 35; Cope, Journ. Ae. 
Philad. (2) vi. 1867, p. 192. 
Pupil erect. Tongue large, oblong, nicked behind. Vomerine teeth 
none. <A cutaneous fold across the palate, between the choane. 
Tympanum hidden. Fingers and toes free, the tips dilated into 
regular disks; outer metatarsals united. Precoracoids none; no 
omosternum; sternum cartilaginous. Diapophyses of sacral yer- 
tebra strongly dilated. Terminal phalanges T-shaped. 
Africa; Austro-Malaysia. 
1. Phrynomantis bifasciata. 
Brachymerus bifasciatus, Giinth. Cat. p. 124. 
Brachymerus bifasciatus, Smith, 1. e. pl. 63; Peters, Arch. f. Naturg. 
1855, p. 58. 
Phrynomantis bifasciata, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1867, p. 36. 
Habit rather stout. Head small; snout rounded, longer than the 
orbital diameter ; interorbital space broader than the upper eyelid. 
Fingers moderate, first shorter than second; toes short; disks of 
