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390 BULLETIN III, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSKUM. 



COrnYLIDyE. 

 But two {jenera are known, as follows : 



Ti])s of i'lij^iTH iiiid toes dilated ; sterniini small f'ophi/Ia Boettg, 



Tips of fmyers and toes acute; stermiiu larj^e VUvynovava Petrrs. 



There is but one species of each of these genera and they inhabit 

 Madagascar. 



dyscopeidj:. 



Boulcuger, Cat, Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus,, od. ii, 1882, p. 179. 



The genera of this family are as follows: The defluitious are taken 

 from Boulenger, /. c, p. 47.3. 



I. Pupil vertical. 



V^omeriiio toeth in loug series ; ateruum very largo ; fiugors and toes, tips not di- 

 lated DjiNCOjihuK (iraiid. 



Vomerine teeth in linig series ; stcrriuni small ; fingers and toes, tips not dilated 

 Cttlliiillii Stoliczka. 



Vomerine teetb in long series; sternum small; lingers and toes, tips dilated 



l'lctlio(iuHlolii/la Blgr. 



II. Pupil horizontal. 



Vomerine teeth in two small groui)H; sternum small ; tips of fuigers and toes di- 

 lated /'/nO/;)(7i.-t* Hlgr. 



The species are distributed as follows : I^vscophus, two specii's, IMada- 

 gascar; Calluella, one .species. Farther India; Plethodontohyla, three 

 species, Madagascar; Platypelis, two species, Madagascar. 



COLOSTETllID.E. 



Cope, Journ. Ac. I'hila., 18()7, lll()-U»7. 



But cue genus of this family is known, which is defined .is follows : 



Crauinni fully develo|»ed ; ethmoid plate hroadly ossitied to end mii/,/.le, separating 

 the narrow prefrontals; terminal plnlanges with transverse limit supporting 

 digital dilatations; no vomerine teeth or metatarsal tuhercles; tongue cylindrie, 

 free behind CohmlvHi its Cope. 



The only known species of this genus, Colostethus latinasiisCoin', be- 

 longs to the Columbian region of the Neotro[)ical realm. 



KANID.E. 



Itani(hv, part., Cy8tignathid(r, part., Poliipcdnlida; llylodiiUr, part., Giinth., Cat. Batr. 



.Sal. 

 Hanidw Cope, Nat. Hist. IJev., 18<i,'> ; Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., 1882, p. ;t. 

 rolypedulidw, vart.,and llaiiida, part., .Mivart, Proceed. Zool. ,Soe., I8(li). 



U|)per.i -tW toothed ; diapoi)hyKes of sacral vertebra not or but very 

 slightly dilated. 



* Mantipiin Peters, 188;$, is the same. 



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