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GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION 



a species of Bufo, closely related to American forms, occurs in the 

 Sandwich Islands f. New Caledonia, which has lately heen well 

 investigated, has not yielded a single Batrachian. 



The Frog-fauna of the Australian Subregion is composed of the 

 families Cystignathidce, Bufonidce, and Hylidce — the first being repre- 

 sented by seven genera, all of which are peculiar to the Subregion, 

 the second by three genera, also peculiar to the Subregion, and the 

 third by Hyla and by Hylella. 



From the third, or New-Zealand Subregion, a single species is 

 known, Liopelma hochstetteri, very curiously a member of the 

 family Discoglossidce, which is otherwise restricted to the Europo- 

 Asiatic Region. 



ECAUDATA. 



FlRMISTEENIA. 



Banidce. 



Rana 



Cornufer 



Engystomatidce. 

 Sphenophryne * 

 Xenobatrachus* 

 Phrynomantis . . 

 Xenorhina * . . . . 



Arcifera. 

 Cystignathidce. 



Mixophyes*. . . . 



Limnodynastes * 



Cryptotis* 



Crinia* 



Hyperolia* 



Chiroleptes* . . 



Heleioporus* . . 

 Bufonidce. 



Pseudophryne * 



(Bufo 



Notaden* 



Myobatrachus* 

 Hylidce. 



Hyla 



Hylella 



Pelobatidce. 



Lechriodus * J . . 



Asterophrys* . . 



Ranaster* 

 Discoglossidce. 



Liopelma* . . . . 





t This fact bears a strong analogy to the occurrence in the Sandwich Islands 

 of a Siluroid (Arius) closely allied to a Central-American species. 



| The name Batrachopsis, proposed by me for this genus, being preoccupied 

 (Fitzinger, Syst. Kept.), is changed into Lechriodus. 



