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a. Adult female : not good state. Andes of Ecuador. From Mr. 

 Fraser's Collection. 



Length of the body 1|-" ; length of anterior extremity 1-^" ; length 

 of posterior extremity 3" ; length of fourth toe -I". The eggs are 

 very large, half the size of a pea, and there are only sixteen in one- 

 half of the ovarium. 



7. Hylodes luteolus. 



Litoria luteola, Gosse, A Naturalisf s Sojourn in Jamaica, p. 366. pi. 7. 



Disks of all the feet very small ; fourth toe extremely long ; head 

 somewhat pointed ; vomerine teeth arranged in two curved Knes, 

 whose convexity is forward, scarcely interrupted at their meeting 

 angle ; posterior half of tongue round and free. Colour pale buff, 

 studded with minute dark specks, irregularly scattered, accumulated 

 in the form of bands across the legs and thighs. A band of deep 

 brown passes from the muzzle through the eye, and is lost about 

 the middle of the side. 



a. Adidt: not good state. Jamaica. Presented by Mr. Gosse. 

 h. Adult : very bad state. Jamaica. 



c. Adidt. Jamaica. Presented by Captain Parry. 



d. Adult : not good state. Jamaica. 



8. Hylodes leptopus. 



Batrachyla leptopus, Bell, Zool. of the Beagle, Rept. p. 43. pi. 18. f. 5. 



Tongue free behind ; vomerine teeth in two oblique groups between 

 the interior nostrils ; tympanum distinct, small, round ; toes de- 

 pressed, rather dilated, truncated and nicked at the tip ; fingers 

 slightly webbed at the base ; toes very slightly webbed (?) ; hinder 

 edge of the thigh wdth scattered glands. — Bell. 



a. Very bad state. Valdivia. Presented by Charles Dar-v^dn, Esq. 

 Neither the description of Professor Bell, nor what I myself 

 could see in the badly presei'ved specimen, can justify the sepa- 

 ration of this species as a different genus. 



4. PLATYMANTIS*. 



Vomerine teeth. Skin smooth, or with narrow folds ; no large 

 gland. Disks rather small ; fingers and toes free. Tympanum di- 

 stinct ; eustachian tubes moderate ; tongue large, free and deeply 

 notched behind. Male without vocal sac. Feejee and Philippine 

 Islands. 



Hylodes, sp., A. Dumeril. 



1. Platy mantis vitianus. 



Hylodes vitianus, (Bibr.) A. Dum. Ann. Sc. Nat. 3 serie, Zool. xix. 

 p. 177; Jacqu. 8f Guich. Rept. in Voy. au Pole Snd jmr Dinnont- 

 cT Urville, p. 26. pi. 1. f. 4, 4 A. 



Vomerine teeth in two oblique series behind the inner nostiils, 



* irXarvs flat, and j.iavris Tree-frog. 



