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2. Phyllobates melanorrhinus. 



Berthold, JVeue Reptil. von Neu Granada, Dissert., Gottingeti, 184G, 

 p. 14. t. 1. f. 9. 



Tongue entire behind ; metatarsus witliout any prominence ; above 

 fulvous, beneath blackish ; nose black. New Granada. 



3. HYLODES. 



Vomerine teeth. Skin smooth, or covered "with small flat warts ; 

 no large gland. Disks small ; fingers and toes free. Tympanum 

 distinct ; eustachian tubes small ; tongue large, oval, entire or 

 sHghtly notched behind. Males with an internal subgular vocal sac. 

 America. 



Cystignathus, sp., Holhr. N. Amer. Herpet. iv. p. 107. 



Hylodes, Fitz. Syst. Rept. p. 31 ; Tschudi, Batr. p. 77 ; Dum. ^ Bihr. 



viii. p. 619. 

 Acris, sp., Dum. 8f Bibr, viii. p. 509. 

 Rana, sp., Biifo, sp., auct. prior. 



1. Hy lodes lineatus. 



Rana lineata, Schneid. Hist. Amph. p. 138; Gravenh. Dclic. p. 44. 

 t. 8. f. 2. 



fusca, Schneid. I. c. p. 130. 



castanea, Shaic, Znol. iii. p. 128. 



Bufo lineatus, Daud. Rain. p. 105, and Ropt. viii. p. 188. 



albonotatus, Daud. Rept. viii. p. 185. 



Rana schneideri, 3Ierr. Tent. p. 177. 

 Hylodes lineatus, Du>n. ^- Bibr. p. 625. 



Toes cylindrical at the tip, with prominent tubercles beneath; 

 muzzle truncated in front ; tongue rounded at each end, oval, broader 

 and entire behind ; vomerine teeth in two hardly interrupted, shghtly 

 arched series between and behind the inner nostiHs. Above bluish 

 black, with a white line on each side ; extremities marbled with 

 darker, and thighs with some large rose-coloured spots. 



a-d. Adult and half-grown. St. Domingo. From M. Salle's Col- 

 lection. 



e. Half- grown. St. Domingo. 



/. Adult. Andes of Ecuador. From Mr. Fraser's Collection. 



e/-n. Adult and half-grown. Andes of Ecuador. From Mr. Fraser's 

 Collection. 



The specimens from the West Indies differ from those of the conti- 

 nent, and they will probably prove to be different species. The 

 belly in the former is uniformly light-coloured, in the latter reddish 

 brown ^vith minute white specks. The vomerine teeth of the former 

 are arranged in two long, very concave scries, extending behind the 

 interior nostrils, nearly to the side of the mouth. The vomerine 

 teeth of the specimens from Ecuador are placed in two short, hardly 

 convex series, not reacliing to the posterior side of the nostiil. 



