GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION 



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Indian couutries possess not one sub-family of their own — or 

 we must break it up into four provinces, not sub-regions : — 



1. Ethiopian, or continental African, with Aglossa and Apoda, no Pelo- 



liatidae, no Dyscophinae, ftnv Bufonidae, and many Raninae. 



2. Indian and Malayan, with Ajioda, no Aglossa, but witli Pelobatidae, 



Dyscophinae, many Bufonidae and Raninae, amongst which Rhacophorus. 



3. Malagasy, without eitlier Apoda or Aglossa ; with Firmisternal Anura 



only, chiefly Dyscoj^hinae, and Rhaco'phorus and other Raninae. 



4. Papuasian, without Ajioda, Aglossa, Dyscophinae, and Bufonidae, Imt with 



Pelobatidae and Ranidae. 



DISTKIBUTIOX OF FAMILIES AXD SUB-FAMILIES OF THE AMPHIBIA. 



1 signifies the occurrence of only one species of an elsewhere numerous group. 

 X Mantella, of. p. 71 and p. 272. 



