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Fam. 2. BRACHYMERID^. 



Htlaplesina with free toes, dilated processes of sacral vertebra, 

 and without paratoids. 



One genus. South Africa. 



1. BRACHYMERUS. 



Habit rather stout; head small, rather short, cleft of mouth 

 moderate ; extremities short ; teeth none in jaws nor in palate, nor 

 a sharp bony ridge ; tongue oblong, broadest beliind, shghtly emar- 

 ginate. Tympanum hidden ; eustachian tubes very small ; skin 

 smooth ; metatarsus without any tubercles. Fingers four, toes five, 

 all free and dilated at the end. Sacral vertebra not much extended. 

 South Africa. 



Brachymerus, Smith, Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa. 



1. Brachymerus bifasciatns. 



Stnith, I. c, pi. 63 ; Peters in Wiegm. Archiv, 1855, p. 58. 



Above deep liver-brown, wdth two red (in spirits yellowish) lon- 

 gitudinal bands ; beneath brownish, variegated with yellowish ; ex- 

 tremities yellow-spotted. 



a. Adult : not good state. South Africa. Presented by Sir A. Smith. 

 h-g. Adult and young. South Africa. Presented by Sir A. Smith. 



Fam. 3. HYLAPLESIDiE. 



Hylaplesina with free toes, cylindrical processes of sacral ver- 

 tebra, and without paratoids. 



One genus. Tropical America. 



1. HYLAPLESIA. 



Habit raniform ; head moderate, angular ; cleft of mouth mode- 

 rate ; extremities moderate ; teeth none in jaws nor in palate ; tongue 

 elongate, free and entire behind. Tympanum rather indistinct; 

 paratoids none ; skin smooth, or with small, flat, smooth tubercles ; 

 metatarsus with two feeble blunt tubercles. Fingers foui", toes five, 

 all free and dilated at the end. Sacral vertebra not dilated. Males 

 with an internal subgular vocal sac. Tropical America. 



Dendrobates, Wagl. Syst. Amph. p. 202 ; Dum. 8f Bibr. viii. p. 649. 

 Hylaplesia, sp., Boie, Isis, 1827, p. 294 ; Tschudi, Batr. p. 70. 

 Hyla, sp., Eana, sp., Calamita, sp., auct. prior. 



