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g,Ti. Half-grown. Borbice. 



i. Young. Dutch Guiana. Presented by Sir A. Smith. 



Tc. Adult. South America. Presented by G. Busk, Esq. 



I. Adult. South America. 



m. Half-grown : bad state. South America, From Mr. Bates's 



Collection. 

 n, 0. Adult and half-grown. Brazil. 

 p. Adult. South America. 

 q, r. Young. South America. 



s. Half-grown : stuffed. Brazil. Presented by Mrs. Parker. 

 t. Half-grown : stuffed. Brazil. Presented by Mrs. Parker. 

 u. Adult: skeleton. Brazil. 



Section II. Micrhylina. 



0. PACHYDACTYLA vnth. maxillary teeth, and with imperfectly 

 developed ear. 



Fam. 1. MICRHYLID^. 



MicEHYLiNA with Webbed toes, dilated processes of sacral vertebra, 

 and without paratoids. 



One genus. Java. 



1. MICRHYLA. 



No vomerine teeth*. In habit similar to Engystoma, with rather 

 long legs. Disks moderate ; fingers quite free ; toes webbed. Skin 

 smooth. No tympanum, no cavum tympani, no eustachian tubes f; 

 tongue rather elongate, oval, rather broader and entire behind. 

 Male with an internal subgular vocal sac. Java. 



Micrhyla, Dum. Sf Bihr. viii. p. 613. 

 Microhyla, Tschiidi, Batr. p. 71. 

 Hylaplesia, sp., Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 294. 



1. Micrhyla achatina. 



Hylaplesia achatina, Boie, I. c. 



Microhyla achatina, Tschudi, 1. c. ; Dum. 6r Bibr. p. 614. 



Crown with a brown cross-band; on each side of the back an 

 elongated brownish -black spot. 



a. Adult. Java. From the Lcyden Museum. 



* Like Bibron, I was not able to find the "dentes palatines breTissimos," men- 

 tioned by Tschudi. 



t " Tympan cach6 ; trompes d'Eustachi excessivement petits." — Dum. ^ Bibr. 

 " Trommolt'ell fehlt ; Trommelhohle ausserst klein ; tuba Eustachii nur ein 

 ausserst feines Kanalchen." — Tschudi, p. 28. 



