90 EEPTILES. 



a. Adult. Ashantee. 



h. Adult. Gaboon. From M. Parzudaki's Collection, 

 c. Adult. Africa. From Mr. Frank's Collection as Eucnemts Bu- 

 cephalus. 



Fam. 2. HYLODIDiE. 



Hylina with free toes, cylindrical processes of sacral vertebra, and 

 without paratoids. 



Si/nojjsis of the Genera. 



1. Crossodactylus. No vomerine teeth ; tongue entirely adherent. 



Brazil. 



2. Phyllobates. No vomerine teeth ; tongue free behind. West 



Indies ; Central America. 



3. Hylodes. Vomerine teeth ; tongue entire or sUghtly nicked be- 



hind. America. 



4. Platymantis. Vomerine teeth ; tongue deeply notched. Feejee 



and Philippine Islands. 



1. CROSSODACTYLUS. 



No vomerine teeth ; fingers thin, rather depressed, quite free ; disk 

 convex beneath, flat and smooth above ; toes free, fringed on both 

 sides ; outer edge of tarsus fringed with a free membrane. Tympa- 

 num distinct ; skin smooth, with a few scattered small flat warts on 

 the sides. Tongue oval, entirely adherent. Brazil. 

 Crossodactylus, Diwi. Sr Bibr. viii. p. 635. 



1. Crossodactylus gaudichaudii. 

 Ihim. Sf Bihr. p. 635. 

 Olive ; the upper part of the legs black-banded. Brazil. 



2. PHYLLOBATES. 



No vomerine teeth ; fingers and toes rather depressed, quite free, 

 not fringed, the dilated iend above with a central longitudinal groove ; 

 tympanum distinct ; eustachian tiibes small ; skin quite smooth ; 

 tongue large, free and entire, or slightly notched behind. West 

 Indies ; Central America. 



Phvllobates, Bihron, in Ramon de la Sagra's Hist, de Vile de Qiba, 

 kept. pi. 29 b ; Dmn. Si- Bihr. viii. p. 637 ; Girard, in U. S. Naval 

 Astronom. Ejcpedit. p. 208. 



1. Phyllobates bicolor. 



Bihron, I. c. ; Dum. <§' Bihr. p. 638. 



Tongue slightly notched behind ; first cimeiform bone indistinctly 

 prominent ; above fulvous, beneath dark brown. Cuba. 



