P^VRT I. 



ARRANGEMENT 



or 



THE FAMILIES AND HIGHER DIVISIONS 



OK 



BATRACHIA AND REPTILIA. 



[ADOPTED rUOVLSlOXALLY BY THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.] 



Class BATRACHIA. 



\ Order ANURA. 



(Aiiura, Dumeril ; Salientia, Merrem, Gray.) 



Ealnifor^iia. 

 (Raniformia, Cope, Xat. Hist. Rev., v, 114, 1865.^) 



Ranidae =Ranidae, Cope, N. H. Rev., v, 114- 



119, 1865.' 

 Colostethidae = Colostethidae, Cope, P. A. N. S. 



Phila., 1866, 130.=^ 



' Raniformia, partim, Dum. et Bib., £rp. Gt5n. 



• Ranidae, Cope, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., n. s., vi, 169, 1867 ; Ranidae, Polypedati- 

 (lae, and Cystignathidae, pars, Gthr., Cat. Bat. Salien., 1858, 4-26. 



= Colostethidae, Cope, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., n. s., vi, 197, 1867 ; " Calostethidae," 

 Mivart, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1869. 



