CHAP. XIX.] 



EEPTILES. 



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Oriental genera are -.—Dicroglossus (1 sp.), Western Himalayas ; 

 Oxyglossus (2 sp.), Siam to Java, Philippines and China ; Hoplo- 

 hatrachus (1 sp.), Ceylon; Phrynoglossus (1 sp.), Siam. The 

 Ethiopian genera are : — Phrynobatrachus (1 sp.), Stenorhynchus 

 (1 sp.), both from Natal. 



Family 20.— DISCOGLOSSID^. (14 Genera, 18 Species.) 



The Discoglossidffi, or Frogs with a dilated sacrum, are re- 

 markable for the number of generic forms scattered over a large 

 part of the globe, being only absent from the Nearctic and the 

 northern half of the Neotropical regions, and also from Hindostan 

 and East Africa. The genera are : — 



Chiroleptes (4 sp.), Australia ; Calyjplocephalus (1 sp.), allied to 

 the preceding, from Chili; Cryptotis (1 sp.), Australia; As- 

 terophys (2 sp.), New Guinea and Aru Islands ; Xenophrys (1 sp.), 

 Eastern Himalayas ; Megalophrys (2 sp.), Ceylon and the Malay 

 Islands ; Nannophrys (1 sp.), Ceylon ; Pelodytes (1 sp.), France 

 only ; LeptobracMum (1 sp.), Java ; Discoglossus (1 sp.), Vienna 

 to Algiers ; Laprissa (1 sp.), Latonia (1 sp.), Palaearctic region ; 

 Arthrolcptis (2 sp.), West Africa and the Cape ; Grypiscus (1 

 sp.), Souih Brazil. 



Family 21.— PIPID^. (1 Genus, 1 Species.) 



Neotropical 



Si'B-REOIONS. 



Nearctic 



Sub-regions. 



General Distribution. 



Pal.* arctic 

 Sub-regions. 



Ethiopian | Oriental 

 Sub-regions, i Sub-regions. 



Australian 

 Sub-regions. 



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