288 MR. ST. GEORGE MIVART ON ANUROUS BATRACHIANS. | May 13, 
Subfam. 1. PHRryYNISCINA. 
« Prefrontals small, widely removed from each other and from the 
fronto-parietals ; eustachian tubes rudimentary; no digital disks ; 
precoracoidei present and smaller than coracoids’’*. 
See Cope, Journal of Acad. of Phil. 1867, p. 195. 
Genera :—Phryniscus, Neotropia; Pseudophryne, Australian ; 
Brachycephalus, Neotropia. 
Subfam. 2. HEMIsSINA. 
No eustachian tubes; tongue posteriorly retractile into a sheath; 
fronto-parietal and prefrontal bones fully developed, in contact, the 
latter separated to end of muzzle by ossified ethmoid septum ; manu- - 
brium present ; coracoids more slender than precoracoids ; no digital 
disks. 
See Cope, /. c. p. 198. 
Genus Hemisus, Ethiopia. 
Subfam. 3. Micurytina. 
Precoracoidei wanting ; no eustachian tubes; ethmoid arch ossi- 
fied; prefrontals fully developed, in contact with each other and 
fronto-parietals ; latter complete ; moderate digital disks. 
Genus Micrhyla, Indian region. 
Division II. Ear perfect. 
Subsection a. Sacral vertebra not dilated. 
Fam. II]. Hynapiesip& (Giinther). 
A tympanum and cavum tympani; two eustachian tubes ; pro- 
cesses of sacral vertebra not dilated; no parotoid glands; tongue 
free behind; digits free and all dilated at their ends; no arciform 
cartilages ; precoracoids present ; sacrum distinct from coecygeal 
style, three lobes to the liver ; prefrontals widely separated ; ethmoid 
broad, ossified to extremity of muzzle; terminal phalanges with two 
divaricate limbs. 
Tropical America. 
Hylapleside, Giinther, Cat. of Bat. Sal. p. 124. 
Dendrobatide, Cope, Journal Phil. 1867, p. 197. 
Genus Hylaplesia, Neotropia. 
Subsection 5. Sacral vertebra dilated, 
Fam. IV. Buronrp& (Giinther). 
A tympanum and cavum tympani; two eustachian tubes; pro- 
* These characters may not apply to Pseudophryne, which does not appear 
to be included by Cope in his Phryniscide, though in the paper in the Nat 
Hist. Review it is placed beside Phryniscus, 1. c. p. 102. 
