20. cryproris.—21. CRINIA. 263 
Pupil horizontal. Tongue suboval, entire and free behind. 
Vomerine teeth. Tympanum hidden. Fingers and toes free, the 
tips not dilated. Outer metatarsals united. Omosternum rudimen- 
tary ; sternum a cartilaginous plate. Diapophyses of sacral vertebra 
slightly dilated. Ter minal phalanges simple. 
Australia. 
1. Cryptotis brevis. 
Cryptotis brevis, Giinth. Ann. § Mag. N. H. (5) xi. p. 27, pl. 4. 
£5; Steindachn. Novar a, Amph. p. 30; Keferst. Me fh. Naturg. 
1868, p. 268. 
Vomerine teeth in two small groups behind the choane. Head 
large in the male, moderate in the female; two long tooth- 
like processes in front of the lower jaw in the former; these pro- 
cesses indistinct in the latter. Snout rounded, longer than the 
orbital diameter; canthus rostralis indistinct; nostril nearer the 
eye than the tip of the snout; interorbital space broader than the 
upper eyelid. Fingers moderate, first shorter than second; in the 
female the two inner fringed on their sides; toes moderate, slightly 
fringed ; subarticular tubercles well developed; a small inner meta- 
tarsal tubercle. The hind hmb ‘being. carried forwards along the 
body, the tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the shoulder or the angle 
of the mouth. Skin smooth, or slightly tubercular on the back. 
Olive-brown above, spotted with darker; a large dark spot between 
the eyes; a dark streak from the tip of the snout to the eye ; limbs 
cross-barred ; lower surfaces black- and white-marbled. Male with 
a subgular vocal sac. 
Australia, 
a,b. S. Clarence River. G. Krefft, Esq. [C.]. (Types.) 
Gs Se Macquarie River. G. Krefft, Esq. [C.]. 
d. Many sp.: 3, Macquarie River, G. Krefft, Eisg<a[lo}. 
2, her., & yg. 
21. CRINIA. 
Crinia, Tschudi, Batr. p.78; Cope, Nat. Hist. Rev. 1865, p. 114, and 
Journ. Ac. Philad. (2) vi. 1866, p. 95. 
Cystignathus, sp., Dum. § Bibr. viii. p. 892; Giinth. Cat. p. 26. 
Ranidella, Girar d, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1858, p. 421. 
Pterophrynus, Liithken, Vidensk. Meddel. 1862, p- 302. 
Camariolius, Peter's, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1863, p. 236, 
Pupil horizontal. Tongue elliptic, entire, and free behind. Vo- 
merine teeth very slightly developed or absent. Tympanum slightly 
distinct or hidden, or absent. Fingers and toes free, not dilated at 
the tips. Outer metatarsals united. Omosternum cartilaginous ; 
sternum narrow, weak, cartilaginous. Diapophyses of sacral ver- 
tebra slightly dilated. Terminal phalanges simple. 
Australia, 
