3. PELODTTES. 4. BATKACH0PSI8. 439 



distinct canthiis rostralis ; tympanum miicli smaller than the eye. 

 Pingers and toes rather slender ; first finger shorter than second ; 

 toes wehbed at the base and fringed, the fringe being greatly deve- 

 loped in the breeding male ; subarticular tubercles rather indistinct ; 

 three palmar tubercles ; a very small inner metatarsal tubercle. 

 The hind limb being carried forwards- along the body, the tibio- 

 tarsal articulation reaches the eye, or between the eye and the tip 

 of the snout. Upper surfaces with smooth flat warts ; a glandular 

 fold above the tympanum ; an angular fold on each side of the breast 

 near the arm, connected with its fellow by a very distinct cross 

 fold : lower belly and under surface of thighs granular. Greyish or 

 olive above, with small green spots ; a rather indistinct X-sh^ped 

 light figure on the front part of the back : lower surfaces white, 

 immaculate. Male with a subgular vocal sac ; during the breeding- 

 season, the chin, the granules of the belly, and the lower surface of 

 the toes with blackish rugosities ; five pairs of rugose blackish 

 plates — one on the side of the breast,- one on the lower side of the 

 breast, one on the inner side of the forearm, and one on each of 

 the two inner fingers, 



France ; Spain and Portugal. 



«. c? • Paris. M. G. A. Boulenger [P.]. 



b. 2 . Nantes. 



c-d. Hgr. France. Paris Museum. 



e. Many spec, S 2 • Valencia, Spain. Lord Lilford [P.]. 



4. BATRACHOPSIS. 



Pupil erect. Tongue subcircular, slightly nicked and free behind. 

 Vomerine teeth in a long transverse series behind the choanae. 

 Tympanum distinct. Fingers free ; toes slightly webbed at the 

 base, the tips not dilated. Outer metatarsals slightly separated. 

 Omosternum cartilaginous ; sternum a small cartilaginous plate. 

 Vertebrae procoelian; sacral vertebra with rather strongly dilated 

 diapophyses, and two condyles for articulation with coccyx. 



New Guinea. 



1. Batrachopsis melanopyga. 



Asterophrvs melano|)vga, Doria, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. vi. 1874, 

 p. 355, pi. 12. f. K •' Peters ^- Doria, eod. he. xiii. 1878, p. 417. 



Vomerine teeth in a strong, transverse, straight or slightly arched, 

 scarcely interrupted series just behind the choanse, not extending 

 outwards beyond the latter. Head large ; snout ro^^_nded, with 

 angular can thus rostralis and very oblique loreal region ; interorbital 

 space as broad as the upper eyelid ; tympanum more or less distinct, 

 vertically oval, its vertical diameter three fourths the width of the 

 eye. Fingers slender, first and second equal : toes slender, webbed 

 at the base, the tips slightly swollen ; subarticular tubercles strong ; 

 a small, blunt, inner metatarsal tubercle. The hind limb being 



