BATBACHIA SALIENTIA. 117 



5. OPISTHODELPHYS. 



Vomerine teeth.. Skin oi back smooth ; head above bony, with a 

 rough ridge on the occiput. Disks large ; fingers slightly, toes 

 broadly webbed ; tympanum distinct ; eustachian tiibcs moderate ; 

 tongue large, nearly circular, very slightly notched behind. Female 

 with a pouch on the hinder part of the back. Central America. 



Notoclelphvs *, Weinlmid, Monatsherichte der Acad, der Wiss. Berlin, 

 1864, p. '372. 



1. Opisthodelphys ovifera. 



Notodelphys ovifera, Weinland, I. c, and in Midler''s Archiv, 1854, 

 p. 449. t. 17-19. 



Crown concave ; occiput with a bony, rough ridge, forming two 

 arches with the convexity forward. Vomerine teeth in two series 

 in a straight line, between the interior nostrils. 



a. Half-grown male. Cordova. From M. Salle's Collection. — Our 

 specimen differs from that of Weinland in ha\dng the sides not 

 uniform brown, but with some large, not confluent, dark brown 

 spots. 



6. TRACHYCEPHALUS. 



Vomerine teeth. Skin more or less granular ; head above bony, 

 with or without bony ridges. Disks large ; membrane between the 

 fingers not much developed ; toes broadly webbed. Tympanum di- 

 stinct ; eiistachian tubes moderate ; tongue large, nearly circular, 

 very slightly notched behind. Males with two internal, lateral, 

 vocal sacs ; females without pouch on the back. West Indies ; South 

 America. 



Trachyceplialus, Dtim. ^ Bibr. viii. p. 534. 



Trachycephalus, Dendrohyas, sp., Hypsiboas, sp., Tschudi, Batr. pp. 

 72, 74. 



1. Trachycephalus marmoratus. 



Trachyceplialus marmoratus, Bihr. in Hid. deVIlede Cuba par Ramon 



de la Sagra, Rept. t. 29 ; Dum. S^- Bibr. p. 538. 

 Hyla septentrionalis, Mus. Paris, et Lugd. 

 Dendrohyas septentrionalis, Tsclmdi, Batr. p. 74. 

 Hyla brunnea, Gosse, A Naturalisf s Sojourn in Jamaica, p. 361. 



Vomerine teeth in a straight line between the inner nostrils, hardly 

 interrupted in the middle ; canthus rostralis with a bony, smooth 

 ridge ; bony surface of the crown finely granular ; fingers slightly 

 webbed. 



a-d. Adult. Cuba. Presented by the Zoological Society. 

 e, f. Adult. Cuba. Presented by W. S. Macleay, Esq. 

 g. Half-grown. Cuba. From M. Parzudaki's Collection. 



* Preoccupied by a genus of Entomostraca (Aim. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1847. 

 vol. XX. p. 2). 



