3. PELODYTES.—4. BATRACHOPSIS. 439 
distinct canthus rostralis; tympanum much smaller than the eye. 
Fingers and toes rather slender; first finger shorter than second ; 
toes webbed at the base and fringed, the fringe being greatly deve- 
loped in the breeding male ; subarticular tubercles rather indistinct : 
three palmar tubercles; a very small inner metatarsal tubercle. 
The hind limb being carried forwards along the body, the tibio- 
tarsal articulation reaches the eye, or between the eye and the tip 
of the snout. Upper surfaces with smooth flat warts; a glandular 
fold above the tympanum ; an angular fold on each side of the breast 
near the arm, connected with its fellow by a very distinct cross 
fold; lower belly and under surface of thighs granular. Greyish or 
olive above, with small green spots; a rather indistinct }{-shaped 
light figure on the front part of the back; lower surfaces white, 
immaculate. Male with a subgular vocal sac; during the breeding- 
season, the chin, the granules of the belly, and the lower surface of 
the toes with blackish rugosities; five pairs of rugose blackish 
plates—one on the side of the breast, one on the lower side of the 
breast, one on the inner side of the forearm, and one on each of 
the two inner fingers. ; 
France ; Spain and Portugal. 
a od. Paris. M. G. A, Boulenger [P.]. 
eB Nantes. 
e-d. Her. France. Paris Museum. 
e. Many spec., dQ. Valencia, Spain. Lord Lilford [P.}. 
4. BATRACHOPSIS. 
_ Pupil erect. Tongue subcircular, slightly nicked and free behind. 
Vomerine teeth in a long transverse series behind the choane, 
Tympanum distinct. Fingers free; toes slightly webbed at the 
base, the tips not dilated. Outer metatarsals slightly separated. 
Omosternum cartilaginous; sternum a small cartilaginous plate. 
Vertebre procelian; sacral vertebra with rather strongly dilated 
diapophyses, and two condyles for articulation with coccyx. 
New Guinea. 
1. Batrachopsis melanopyga. 
Asterophrys melanopyga, Doria, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. vi. 1874, 
p. 355, pl. 12. f. K; Peters § Doria, cod. loc. xiii. 1878, p. 417. 
Vomerine teeth in a strong, transverse, straight or slightly arched, 
scarcely interrupted series just behind the choane, not extending 
outwards beyond the latter. Head large; snout rounded, with 
angular canthus rostralis and very oblique loreal region ; interorbital 
space as broad as the upper eyelid ; tympanum more or less distinct, 
vertically oval, its vertical diameter three fourths the width of the 
eye. Fingers slender, first and second equal: toes slender, webbed 
at the base, the tips slightly swollen ; subarticular tubercles strong ; 
a small, blunt, inner metatarsal tubercle. The hind limb being 
