CATALOGUE 



OF 



BATRACHIA ECAUDATA. 



BATRACHIA. 



Order I. ECAUDATA. 



In the perfect state, foui- limbs and no tail. 



Suborder I. PHANEROGLOSSA. 



Eustachian tubes separated ; a tongue. 



Series A. FIRMISTEENIA. 



Coracoids firmly united by a simple epicoracoid cartilage ; pre- 

 coracoids, if present, resting with their distal extremity upon the 

 coracoids, or connected with the latter by the epicoracoid cartilage, 



Fam. 1. Ranidse. Upper jaw toothed; diapoj)hyses of sacral 

 vertebra cylindrical, or very slightly dilated p. 3. 



Fam. 2. Dendrohatidse. Maxillary teeth none ; diapophyses of 

 sacral vertebra not dilated p. 140. 



Fam. 3. EngystomatidaB. Maxillary teeth none ; diapophyses of 

 sacral vertebra dilated p. 146. 



Fam. 4, Dyscophidse. Upper jaw toothed ; diapophyses of sacral 

 vertebra dilated p. 179. 



Series B. AECIFERA. 



Coracoids and precoracoids connected by an arched cartilage 

 (the epicoracoid), that of the one side overlapping that of the other. 



Fam. 5. Cystignathidse. Uj)per jaw toothed ; diapophyses of sacral 

 vertebra cylindrical, or slightly dilated p. 183. 



B 



