2. PSETTDOPHRYN^E. 277 



edge of the tarsus. The hind limb being carried forwards along the 

 body, the tibio-tarsal articulation marks the anterior angle of tlie 

 eye. Upper surfaces Avith smooth flat warts ; a flat parotoid, 

 Terminal phalanges anchor-shaped. 

 E. Ecuador. 



2. PSEUDOPHRYNE. 



Pseudophryne, Fitzing. Syst. Rept, i. p. 32: GilntJi. Cat, p. 4o ; Cope, 



Nat. Hist. Rev. 1865, p. 103. 

 PhiTnisciiii, sp., Durn. S)- Bihr. viii. p. 722. 



Pupil horizontal. Tongue elliptical, entire and free behind. 

 Vomerine teeth none. Xo tympanum. Fingers and toes free, the 

 tips not dilated. Outer metatarsals united. Xo omosternum ; 

 sternum cartilagiuoiis. Diapophyses of sacral vertebra moderately 

 dilated. Terminal phalanges simple. 



Australia. 



Synopsis of the Species. 



I. One or two small rounded metatarsal tubercles ; tip of longest 

 toe reaching beyond the eye. 



Blackish brown above ; forehead yellowish. 1. australis, p. 277. 

 Brown or olive above, variegated with 



darker 2. hibrouii, p. 278. 



Yellowish brown above ; sides blackish . . ''. coriacea., p. 278. 



II. Two large, oval, compressed metatarsal 

 tubercles ; tip of longest toe not reaching 



beyond the eye 4. giientheri, p. 279. 



1 . Pseudophryne australis. 



Pseudopln-yue australis, Giiuth. Cat. p. 45. 

 Bombiuator australis, Gra}/, Proc. ZooL Sac. 1835, p. -"7 : Ei/re, 



Joiini. Exped. C. Austr. i. App. p. 407, pi. 1. f. 1. 

 Phrvniscus alMfrons, Dioti. lV Ilibr. ix. p. 41-3, pi. 100. f. 3. 

 Ps8udophr}Tie australis, Keforst. Arch.f. Xaturf/. 1868, p. 271. 



Snout rounded, a little longer than the orbital diameter, without 

 canthus rostralis ; interorbital space as broad as the upper eyelid. 

 Fingers short, first much shorter than second ; toes short, quite 

 free, without even a rudiment of fringe ; subarticular tubercles 

 not very prominent ; a small, not very prominent, rounded inner 

 metatarsal tubercle; outer tubercle none or very indistinct. The 

 hind limb being carried forwards along the body, the tip of the 

 longest toe always reaches beyond the eye ; the tibio-tarsal articu- 

 lation reaches the shoulder in the male, not so far in the female. 

 Skin smooth, or with very small, round, flat warts on the back. 

 Blackish brown above ; forehead and crown, a streak along the 

 coccj-x, a spot on the upper arm, and another on the thigh yellowish ; 

 beneath blackish, with large yellowish spots. ^lale vrith an internal 



