444 DISCOGLOSSID.2. 
1. Asterophrys turpicola. 
Asterophrys turpicola, Giinth. Cat. p. 37. 
Asterophrys turpicola, (Miill.) Tschudi, l. e. 
Ceratophrys turpicola, Schleg. Abbild. p. 30, pl. 10. f. 4. 
Head very large, angular; upper edge of the eyelid with several 
dermal appendages. Extremities moderate. Dark brown above ; 
lower surfaces lighter, marbled with darker. 
New Guinea. 
The following genus must evidently be referred to this family : 
‘but the characters given are insufficient to ascertain its place :— 
Ranaster, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, ii. 1878, p. 135. 
‘Habit rather stout. Head large and rounded. Legs rather 
short. Fingers and toes tapering and slightly webbed, with tuber- 
cular pads on the carpal and tarsal bones. Skinsmooth. Maxillary 
teeth conspicuous, acute, bicuspid, and sub-distant. Vomerine teeth 
conspicuous and sub-distant, situated on a long, straight, transverse 
ridge, sharply divided in the middle. Inner nostrils rather large 
and in front of the vomerine ridge. Tongue largely notched behind. 
Tympanum distinct. Sacral vertebra dilated. No parotoids.” 
R. convexiusculus, Macleay, 1. c. p. 136.—Katow, N. Guinea. 
10. DISCOGLOSSIDA. 
Discoglossidee, part., Alytidee, part., Bombinatoride, part., Ginth. 
Cat. Batr. Sal.; Mivart, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869. 
Discoglossidee, Cope, Nat. Hist. Rev. 1865, and Journ. Ac. Philad. 
(2) vi. 1866. 
Discoglossidee and Alytidee, Lataste, Rev. Intern, Se. 1878, ii, p. 488, 
and Actes Soc. Linn, Bord. xxx. p. 539. 
Upper jaw toothed ; diapophyses of sacral vertebra dilated ; short 
ribs articulated to the anterior diapophyses. 
In the presence of ribs and the opisthoccelian vertebra, the 
members of this very natural family closely approach the higher 
Tailed Batrachians. In their larval state they are also well distin- 
euished by having the spiraculum situated mesially on the thoracic 
region, whilst in all the other Phancroglossa it is situated on the 
left side. 
The sternal apparatus is the same in all four genera, and re- 
_ markable for the shape of the sternum, which forms two slender 
postero-exteriorly diverging styles. 
The coccyx is furnished at its base with posteriorly diverging 
diapophyses. In Bombinator it is attached to one condyle; in the 
other genera there are two condyles. 
A more or less extensive fontanelle is present. Bombnator and 
Alytes, and perhaps also Liopelma, have true ossa nasalia. 
