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CYSTIGXATHIDJE, 



being carried forTvards along the body, the tibio-tarsal articulation 

 reaches the shoulder. Skin smooth, shagreeiied on the head and 

 back ; a large parotoid, not conspicuous externally. Brownish with 

 white rounded spots, or reddish- white marbled with brown ; young, 

 above olive with more or less conspicuous brown spots, and a dark 

 streak from the tij) of the snout to the eye. Male without vocal 

 sac, with a conical tubercle on the inner side of the first finger. 

 Australia. 



2. Heleioporus pictus. 



Neobatrachus pictus, Peters, Mon. Bed. Ac. 18G3, p. 2.35. 



Toes two-thirds webbed. Skin of head and back with irregular 

 flat warts ; parotoids none. Olive above, marbled with darker ; a 

 dark streak from the tip of the snout to the eye ; a light vertebral 

 line ; metatarsal shovel black. Otherwise as in H. cdbojnoictatus. 



Australia. 



a. 2- 



b. Ilcrr. 



Sandhurst, Victoria. 

 Ryalstoue, N. S. Wales, 



Ool. Beddome [P.]. 

 G. Kreffi, Esq. [P.]. 



The type specimen of the following genus is unfortunately entirely 

 decayed. That it was a Cystignathid there is no doubt, but beyond 

 that it is not possible to say what were its affinities : — 



Alsodes, Bell, Zool. Beagle, Rept. p. 41 ; Giinth. Cat. p. 42. 



" Head convex, crown smooth. Tongue acutely produced in front, 

 rounded and free behind. Palatine teeth in two small close patches 

 between the interior nostrils. Fingers four, short, webbed at the 

 base (inner toe broad, fringed). Toes webbed to the third phalange." 

 (Bell.) "Tympanum, cavum tympanicum, tuba eustacliii, wanting : 

 diapophysis of sacral vertebra a^^pears to be a little dilated towards 

 the end." (Giinther.) 



A. monticola, Bell, I. c. pi. 18. f. 3. — Island of Inchy, Chonos Ar- 

 chipelago. 



The following genus evidently also belongs to this family, but the 

 sternal apparatus not being known it is impossil)le to refer it to its 

 proper place, though it apjiears to be most closely related to Edalo- 

 rhina : — 



Natteeeria, Steindachn, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1864, p. 279. 

 " Body elongate, raniform ; head triangular, the forehead and 



