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4. Phryniscus varius. 



Atelopus varius, Stannius, Handh. der Zoot. 2. Aujl. Amph, p. IG. 

 Phrynidiiun varium, Murtetis, I. c. p. 40. 



Slcin smooth ; muzzle rather elongate. Black, with smaller or 

 larger yellow spots ; lips and tips of the fingers yellow ; legs with 

 yellow spots or cross bands ; belly yellow. Veragoa. 



5. Phryniscus olfersii. 



Phryniscus olfersii, Martens, Nomenelator Rept, Mus. Zool. Berol. 

 1856, p. 40. 



Skin entirely smooth ; humerus shorter than the occiput is broad. 

 Fingers and toes quite free. Above brownish red, beneath paler ; 

 sides with a brown, white-edged band from the muzzle. Brazil. 



Fam. 2. BRACHYCEPHALID^. 



BnAciiTCEPnALiNA mth free toes, with the processes of sacral ver- 

 tebra dilated, and without paratoids. 



Synopsis of the Genera. 



1. Pseudophryne. Five distinct toes ; metatarsus with one or two 



small blunt tubercles. Australia. 



2. Brachycephalus. Back mth a bony shield. Tropical America. 



3. Hemisus. Metatarsus with a flat, oval, sharp -edged spur. 



Africa. 



1. PSEUDOPHRYNE. 



Head moderate, with distinct muzzle, rounded ; cleft of mouth 

 moderate ; extremities rather short ; teeth, none in jaws nor in 

 palate ; tongue elongate, free and entire behind. Eustachian tubes 

 rudimentary; no tympanum nor cavum tympani* ; skin smooth, 

 with some flat warts ; metatarsus with one or two small blunt 

 tubercles ; fingers four, toes five, all quite free. Males ■\vith an in- 

 ternal subgular vocal sac. Australia. 



Phryniscus, sp., Dum. Sf Bihr. 

 Pseudophrj^ne, Fitzinger, Si/st, Rept, p. 32. 

 Bombinator, sp., Gray, 



1. Pseudophryne australis. 



Bombinator australis, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1835, p. 57 j Eyre, Journ, 



JExped. Centr. Austr. i. App. p. 407. pi. 1. f. 1. 

 Phryniscus albifrons, Dum. ^ Bibr. ix. p. 413. pi. 100. f. 3. 



* I have only examined the structiu-e of tlie ear in Pseudophryne australis. 



