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2. PELODYTES. 



Skin covered with tubercles ; fingers free ; toes webbed (sometimes 

 very shortly) ; no finger opposite the other ones ; the first cuneiform 

 bone forming a rounded prominence. Tympanum distinct ; eusta- 

 chian tubes moderate ; tongue oval, free, and nearly entire behind. 

 Vomerine teeth. Male with an internal subgular vocal sac. France. 



Pelodytes, (Fitz.) Bona}). Faun, Ital. ; Ihim. 8f Bibr. viii. p. 460. 

 Alytes, sp., Tschudi, Bait: p. 84. 

 Rana, sp., auct. prior. 



1. Pelodytes punctatus. 



Rana punctata, Baud. Rain, p. 51. pi. 16. f. 11, nndi Rqyt. viii. p. 100. 



plicata, Daud. Bain, p. 5.3, and BejH. p. 102 ; Cuv, Rk/ne Anim. 



daudini, Merr. Tent. p. 177. 



Alytes pimctatus, Tschudi, Batr. p. 84. 



Pelodytes pimctatus, (Fitz,) Bonap. Faun. Ital. ; Dum. Sf Bibr. p. 463. 



Above spotted with black. 



a, h. France. From the Paris Museum. 

 c. Nantes. Fi'om Mr. Cuming's Collection. 



3. DISCOGLOSSUS. 



Habit raniform. Fingers free, a rudimentary thumb hke a 

 tubercle ; toes shortly webbed in the female, half-webbed in the 

 male. Skin smooth or with scattered flat warts. Tongue nearly 

 circular, entire and free behind. Vomerine teeth in a straight line 

 between the hinder edge of the internal nostrils. Eustachian tubes 

 small ; tjinpanum small, hidden. Male without vocal sac. Shores 

 of the Mediterranean. 



Discoglossus, Otth. Neue Denkschriften der AUgemeineti Schweiz. na- 

 turforsch, Gesellsch, i. p. 6; TscJtudi, Batr, p. 80; Dum. ^Bibr.-p. 422. 

 Pseudis, sp., Gen/^. 



1. Discoglossus pictus. 



Discoglossus pictus, Ofth, I. c, f. 1-8 ; Tschudi, Batr, p. 80 ; Bonap. 



Faun, Ital, ; Dmn. 4'- Bibr. p. 425. 

 Pseudis sardoa, Geni, St/n. Rept. Sard, p. 24, and 3fcm. Accad. Sc. 



Tor. ser. ii. torn. i. p. 257. t. 5. f. 1. 2. 

 Discoglossus sardus, Tschudi, I. c. ; Bonap. Faun. Ital. 



Olive, darker marbled ; skin more or less covered with flat warts. 



Var. A. picta. Skin nearly smooth ; spots not confluent ; some- 

 times with one or three whitish longitudinal streaks. 



a-e. Adult. Vienna. From Dr. Heckel's Collection. 

 f, g. Adiilt. Malta. From Miss E. Attersoll's Collection. 



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