BATRACHIA SALIENTIA, 6 



1. Fipa americana. 



Pipa nmericana, Seha, i. 77. 1-4 ; Laur, Si/n. p. 25 ; Ouv. Rhgne Ani'm. ; 



Dum. i^f Bihr. viii. p. 773. pi. 92. f. 2 ; Merinn, Ins. Snr. t. 59. 

 Eana pipa, Limi. Mus. Ad. Fried, p. 121, and Si/st. Nat. p. 354 ; Daub. 



Encycl. 3Ieth. JErjKt. p. GG2 ; Laccp. Quadr. Ovip. i. p. 600 ; Bonnat. 



JEncycl, p, 14 ; Shaw, Zoul. iii. p. 1G7. pi. 50, 51 ; Blmnenh. Ahhildg. 



t. 3(3; Breyer, Ohserv. Anat. Diss. Prces. Rudoljihi, Berl. 1811; 



Mayer, Nov. Act. 1825, p. 527. t. 49. 



dorsigera, Schneid. Hist. Amph. p. 121. t. 1, 2. 



Bufo dorsig-er, Latr. Rept. ii. p. 120; Daud. Hist. Rain. p. 85, and 



Rept. viii. p. 172. 

 Pipa tedo, Merr. Tent. p. 179. 



cunicuru, S2nx, Spec. Nov. t, 22. f. 1, 2. 



Leptopus asterodactylus, 3Iayer, Anal. p. 34. 



Pipa dorsigera, Gravenh. Delic. p. 70. 



Asterodactylus pipa, Wagl. Syst. p. 199 ; Tschudi, I. c. p, 89. 



Olive-brown or blackish, beneath whitish, sometimes spotted. 



a. Skeleton. Tropical America. 



h. Female with young on the back. Tropical America. 



c. Female with young on the back. Tropical America. 



d. Male. Tropical Ameiica. Belly black, white-spotted. 



e. Male, British Guiana. Presented by Sir R, Schomburgk, Belly 



pale, with a dark central streak. 



Second Series. AGLOSSA DIPLOSIPHONA. 



Aglossa with separated ostia pharyngea of the eustachian tubCvS. 



Fam. 1. MYOBATRACHID^. 



Only one genus. 



1. MYOBATRACHUS. 



Teeth none, except two large horizontal fangs in the intermax- 

 illary bone ; tympanum hidden ; paratoids none ; eustachian tubes 

 not united, behind the eyes. Fingers foxir, cylindrical, tapering ; 

 toes five, not webbed. Sacral vertebra ? 



Myobatrachus, (Schlegel) Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 9, and Ann. 

 Nat. Hist. 1851, p. 70. 



1. Myobatrachus paradoxus. 



(Schley el) Gray, I. c. 

 Above brownish grey, beneath greyish. Swan Kiver. 



B 2 



