DENDROPHRYNISCID &. oS 
vertex flat; tongue large, oblong, thick, slightly emarginate behind, 
free in its posterior half. Maxillary teeth: palatine teeth none ; 
parotoids strong, produced much beyond the tympanum; latter 
hardly distinct ; openings of the eustachian tubes round, perfectly 
distinct. Fingers and toes free; two metatarsal tubercles, mode- 
rately developed. Diapophyses of sacral vertebra dilated, flat.” 
N. lateristriga, Steind. le. pl. 14. £. 2.—Brazil. - 
6. DENDROPHRYNISCIDA. 
Dendrophryniscide, Espada, Jorn. Sc, Lisb. iii, 1870, p. 65. 
Batrachophrynidee, Cope, Check-list N.-Amer. Bat. § Rept., Bull. 
U.S. Nat; Mus. 1. 1877. 
Maxillary teeth none. Diapophyses of sacral vertebra not dilated. 
This family is closely related to the preceding one, from which it 
differs only in the absence of maxillary teeth. 
1. BATRACHOPHRYNUS. 
Batrachophrynus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1873, p. 411. 
Pupilerect. Tongue large, circular, entirely adherent. Vomerine 
teeth none. No tympanum nor eustachian tubes. Fingers free ; 
toes webbed, the tips not dilated. Outer metatarsals united. A 
cartilaginous omosternum ; sternum a cartilaginous plate. ‘Terminal 
phalanges simple. 
Peru. 
1. Batrachophrynus brachydactylus. 
Batrachophrynus brachydactylus, Peter's, l.c. p. 415, pl. 5. f. 4. 
Head small, much depressed ; snout short, rounded, without can- 
thus rostralis; eyes obliquely directed upwards: upper eyelids 
narrow. Fingers rather short, first and second equal; toes mode- 
rately long, two-thirds webbed ; subarticular tubercles of fingers and 
toes very small; twosmall, scarcely prominent metatarsal tubercles. 
The hind limb being carried forwards along the body, the tarso-me- 
tatarsal articulation marks the tip of the snout in males, the eye in 
females. Skin perfectly smooth. Olive above, spotted with darker. 
Male without vocal sac. 
Peru. 
a-d. 3. High Peru. Prof. Taczanowski [P.]. 
2. Batrachophrynus macrostomus. 
Batrachophrynus macrostomus, Peters, .c. p. 412, pl. 2. £. 1. 
Differs from the preceding species in the larger head, longer ante- 
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