1. prpa. 459 
1. Pipa americana. 
Pipa americana, Giinth. Cat. p. 3. 
Seba, i. 77. 1-4; Merian, Ins. Surin. t. 59. . 
Rana pipa, Linn. Mus. Ad. Frid. p. 121, and S. N. p. 354; Shaw, 
Zool, iii. p. 167, pls. 50 & 51; Blumend. Abbild. pl. 36; Breyer, 
Observ. Anat. Diss. Pres. Rudolphi, Berl. 1811; Mayer, Nova 
Acta, 1825, p. 527, pl. 49. 
Pipa americana, Laur, Syn. Rept. p.25; Cuv. R. A.; Dum. § Bibr. 
p- 778, pl. 92. f. 2. 
Rana dorsigera, Schneid. Hist. Amph. p. 121, pls. 1 & 2. 
Bufo dorsiger, Daud. Rain. p. 85, and Rept. vii. p. 172. 
Pipa tedo, Merr. Tent. p. 179. 
Pipa curucuru, Sprx, Spec. Nov. Test. Ran. pl. 22. f. 1 & 2. 
Leptopus asterodactylus, Mayer, Anal. p. 34. 
Pipa dorsigera, Gravenh, Delic. p. 70. 
Asterodactylus pipa, Wagl. Syst. Amph. p.199; Tschudi, Batr. p. 89. 
Head extremely depressed, triangular; eye minute; one or two 
short tentacles on the upper lip, in front of the eye; a large dermal. 
flap at the angle of the mouth, sometimes another at the tip of the 
snout. Fingers very slender, subequal in size; toes very broadly 
webbed, third and fourth nearly equal; no subarticular tubercles ; 
a blunt inner metatarsal tubercle. The hind limb being carried 
forwards along the body, the tarso-metatarsal articulation reaches 
the eye or not so far. Skin covered with small tubercles. Olive- 
brown or blackish above; beneath lighter, sometimes white-spotted, 
or with a black stripe along the middle of the belly. 
Guianas; Brazil. 
Na 
Sternal apparatus, 
Oe ese Grenada Isl. 
has British Guiana. Sir R. Schomburgk [P.]. 
eid, 6.6 Surinam, 
101 Tropical America. Sir A. Smith [P.}, 
g,h. 2 Tropical America, 
i. Skeleton. Mr. Damon, 
