2 EEPTILES. 



Xeiiopus, Waffl. Isis, 1827, p. 726, and Syst. Amjih. p. 199. 



Leptopus, sp., 3Inyer, Anal. p. 34. 

 Pipa, sp., Merr. Tent, p. 180. 

 Bufo, sp., auct. prior, 



1. Dactylethra laevis. 



Bufo Ifevis, Baud. Hist. Rain. p. 85. pi. 30. f, 1, and Rept. vdli. p. 171. 

 Pipa Ifevis, 3Ie)-r. Tent. p. 180. 



bufonia, id. 1. e. 



Leptopus oxydactylus, Mayer, Anal. p. 34. 



Dactvlethra capensis, Cm\ Regne Anim. ; Dum. i^- Bibr. p. 765. 



pi." 92. f. 1. 

 Xenopus boiei, Waril Isis, 1827, p. 726, and Syst. p. 199. 

 Dactylethra boiei, Tschudi, I. c. 



Ashy brown, veined with blackish. Tarsus and metatarsus with- 

 out any tubercle or spur. 



a. Large specimen: female. Port Natal. Presented by the Rev. 



H. Calloway. 

 h. Adult. Africa. From Mr. Frank's Collection. 

 c, d. Half-grown. West Africa. From Mr. Fraser's Collection. 

 e. Large specimen : stuffed. Capo of Good Hope. 



2. Dactylethra miilleri. 



Peters, Monatshei-. der Berlin. Aead. 1844, p. 37, and Wieqm. Arch. 

 1855, p. 58 ; Hallorv. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1857, p. 65. 



Black above, dark brown below ; a cutaneous appendage below 

 the eye ; a spur at the base of the first toe. Mozambique ; Gaboon. 



Fam. 2. PIPID-ffi. 



Haplosiphona without maxillary teeth, with webbed toes, and 

 with the processes of the sacral vertebra dilated. 



1. PIPA. 



Head short, broad, very flat, triangular ; teeth none in jaws nor 

 in palate ; tympanum hidden ; paratoids none ; eustachian tubes 

 united, in the middle of palate, very small. Fingers four, each 

 ending in four appendages; toes five, simple at the tip, broadly 

 webbed. Sacral vertebra much dilated. Female with pouches on 

 the back. S. America. 



Pipa, Laur. Syn. 17S8;^ Men: Tent. p. 179; Cur. Regne Anim.; 



Ihan. i^- Bihr. viii. p. 767. 

 Asterodactvhis, Wagl. Syst. Ami^h. p. 199; Tschudi, Class. Batrach. 



p. 89. 

 Leptopus, sp., Mayer, Anal. p. 34. 

 Bufo, sp., Rana, sp., auct. prior. 



