1869.] MR. ST. GEORGE MIVART ON ANUROUS BATRACHIANS. 287 
{. No parotoids. 
1. Sacral vertebra dilated; digital 
SGISLSssfsifaie- SARE ving tanta Hylide. 
2. Sacral vertebra undilated ; digital 
CRSA Es Poth Heh slawiehe “he tte Polypedatide. 
3. Sacral vertebra undilated; no 
BISON AISI 5 F. ovain. ag heii Nt pos Ranide. 
4. Sacral vertebra dilated ; no digital 
6 ELC SP ney te Discoglosside. 
C. No tongue ; maxillary teeth present or absent. 
Fr Maxillary teetin ausent.... Pen sss Pipide. 
TT. Wiixillary teeth present +. .: ee Dactylethride. 
Section A. No maxillary teeth; a tongue. 
Division I. Kar imperfect. 
Fam. I. Rurnopurynip2@. 
No tympanum ; no cavum tympani; no eustachian tubes; trans- 
verse processes of sacral vertebra dilated ; parotoid glands present 
but hidden, large, with smooth surface ; tongue free in front, fixed 
behind ; fingers webbed at the base, toes half webbed; “no articulated 
ribs or opisthoccelian vertebree ;”’ “ ethmoid septal walls ossified to 
the end of the muzzle, and separating the prefrontals; its superior 
plate covered by the completely ossified fronto-parietale. Fronto- 
nasalia well developed, entirely in contact with fronto-parietalia, 
separated by a median point of the latter and by the ethmoid sep- 
tum.” ‘*Coracoid and epicoracoid divergent, connected by a nar- 
row single cartilage; the former not dilated, in contact with, or 
slightly separated from, that of the opposite side.’’ Nine vertebrae 
and a coceyx attached by two condyles. 
Tropical America. . 
Rhinophrynus, Dum. & Bibron, viii. p. 748, pl. 91. figs. 2, 2a; 
Ginther, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 348; Cope, Nat, Hist. Review, vol. v. 
1865, p. 100. 
Genus Rhinophrynus, Mexico. 
Fam. II. Puryniscip2. 
No tympanum ; no cavum tympani; eustachian tubes absent or 
rudimentary ; transverse processes of sacral vertebra dilated ; no pa- 
rotoid glands; tongue more or less elongate, fixed in front, free 
behind, where it is entire; digits free or webbed, but undilated or 
only moderately dilated. No arciform cartilages. 
Neotropical and Australian, Indian and Ethiopian regions. 
This is almost equivalent to the Brachycephalina of Dr. Giinther, 
including, as it does, the Phryniscide, Brachycephalide, and adding 
to them the Micrhylide (Cat. of Bat. Salientia, pp. 42, 45, & 121, 
and Synopsis, p. 8), 
