328 



BTJPONIDiE, 



the tip of the snout. Upper surfaces covered with closely set, 

 smooth round warts of different sizes, the largest being distinctly 

 porous ; sides and lower surfaces granulate. Dark brown above, 

 the largest warts light-coloured : light brown beneath, iramacalate. 

 Male with a subgular vocal sac. 

 Java. 



fl. d ■ Java. Dr. Bleeker. 



6. NOTADEN. 



Notaden, GiinfJi. Ann. ^- Mac/. N. H. (4) xi. 1873, p. 349. 



Pupil horizontal. Tongue circular, entire, free behind. Yome- 

 rino teeth. A dermal ridge between the choanpe, and another in 

 front of this. Tympanum hidden. Fingers free ; toes webbed, the 

 tips not dilated. Outer metatarsals united. Omosternum and 

 sternum cartilaginous, rudimentary. Diapophyses of sacral ver- 

 tebra moderately dilated. Terminal phalanges simple. 



Australia. 



1. Notaden bennetti. (Plate XXII. fig. 3.) 

 Notaden beunetti, Giinth. I. c. p. 3-jO. 



Habit extremely stout. Two small bony prominences close 

 together behind the level of the choante. Head very short and 

 high ; cleft of mouth not extending beyond the vertical of the 

 centre of the eye ; latter moderately large, scarcely prominent ; in- 

 ter orbital space as broad as the upper eyelid. Limbs short, clumsy ; 

 fingers and toes short, depressed, latter webbed at the base ; first 

 and second fingers equal ; stibarticular tubercles of fingers slightly 

 distinct, of toes quite indistinct; a large shovel-shaped inner meta- 

 tarsal tubercle ; no other tubercle. Skin of the back strongly 

 glandular, very thick ; upper surfaces with flat warts. Light olive 

 above, with a large cross-shaped blackish marking on the back ; 

 sides and limbs blackish, white-spotted ; beneath whitish, throat 

 with scattered black spots. 



E. Australia. 



a. 0. Castlereagh River. SA'dnej Museum. 



'(Type.) 



b. 2 . Oastlereagh River. Dr. Bennett [P.]. 



c. Yg. Wilson's River, Queensland. 



7. MYOBATRACHUS. 



Myobatrachus, ScJiIcg. Proc. Zool. Soc. 18-30, p. 9 ; Giinth. Cat. pp. 3 



& 128. 

 Chelydobatrachus, {Gray) Giivth. Cat. p. 273. 



