BATRACHIA SALIENTIA. 97 



1. Litoria freycineti. 



Litoria frevcineti, {Bibr. 3ISS.) Tsclmdi, Batr. p. 77 ; Dum. 8f Bibr. 



p. 504. pi. 88. f. 2. 

 Pelodytes affiuis, G)-ai/, Zool. Misc. p. 56. 



Snout moderate ; back nearly smootli ; nostril in the middle be- 

 tween the eye and the top of snout. 



a. Port Essington. From Mr. Gilbert's Collection, 



2. Litoria nasuta. 

 Pelodytes nasutus, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 56. 

 Snout pointed ; back with short longitudinal plaits ; nostril nearer 

 the top of snout than the eye. 



a. Adult female. Port Essington. From Mr. Gilbert's Collection. 

 h. Adult male. Port Essington. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 

 c. Half-grown. Australia. Presented by Sir J. Richardson, 



2. PSEUDACEIS. 



Vomeiine teeth. Skin of back smooth. Disks very small ; fingers 

 quite free, none opposite to the others ; toes webbed at the base, no 

 web between the two inner ones. Tympanum distinct ; eustachian 

 tubes moderate ; tongue oval, slightly nicked behind. Male with 

 internal vocal sac. North America. 



Chlorophilus, Baird, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1854, p. 60. 



Pseudacris, Fitz. Si/sf. Rept. p. 31. 



Cystignathus, sp., Holhr. N. Atncr. Ilerpeiol. iv. p. 107. 



Acris, sp., Dum. Sf Bihr. viii. p. 509. 



Rana, sp., auct. prior. 



1. Pseudacris nigrita. 



Rana nigi-ita, Leconte, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, i. p. 282 ; Harlan, 



Med. Phys. Pes. p. 105, and Journ. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. v. p. 341. 

 Acris nigrita, Dum. S^- Bibr. p. 509. 



Cystignathus nigritus, Holhr. N Amer. Herpet. iv. p. 107. pi. 26. 

 Baird, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1054, p. 60. 



Skin of back smooth ; vomerine teeth in two rather oblique series 

 on the level of the hinder edge of the inner nostrils. Snout rather 

 prominent beyond the lower jaw. Blackish ash, with three or five 

 darker, sometimes internipted longitudinal bands; a black streak 

 passing through the eye above the tympanum; upper lip with a 

 whitish streak. 



a. Adult. Georgia. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 



6, Adult. Great Bear Lake. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



(Cliili), presented by Charles Darwin, Esq. Tlie specimen apparently was in a 

 state of decay before it was put in spirits ; it belongs to a species of Cystignathus, 

 in too bad a condition to be determined, and the glands on the liinder side of the 

 thighs are merely tlie cysts of a parasitic animal. 



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