CATALOGUE 



BATRACHIA SALIENTIA. 



Suborder I. BATRACHIA SALIENTIA. 



Body short, depressed, withoiit any tail. 



A. AGLOSSA. 



Batkachia Salientia sen Anottra without tongue. 



First Series. AGLOSSA HAPLOSIPHONA. 



Aglossa with the eustachian tubes united into one phaiyngea 

 orifice. 



Fam. 1. DACTYLETHRID^. 



Haplosiphona with maxillary teeth, webbed toes, and with the 

 processes of the sacral vertebra dilated. 



1. DACTYLETHRA. 



Head flat, rounded in front ; no teeth in palate ; tympanum 

 hidden ; paratoids none ; eustachian tubes united into one orifice 

 in the middle of palate, large. Fingers four, pointed, quite free ; 

 toes five, broadly webbed, the first three provided Avith a sharply 

 pointed nail. Diapophyses of sacral vertebra much dilated. Back 

 in both sexes smooth. "Western and Southern Africa. 



Dactylethra, Cuv. Regne Anim. ; Tschudi, Classif. der Batntch. p. 55, 

 89 ; Dum. 8f Bihr. viii. p. 702. 



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