290 MR. ST. GEORGE MIVART ON ANUROUS BATRACHIANS. [ May 13, 
Genera :—Breviceps, Ethiopian region; Chelydobatrachus, Aus- 
tralian; Hypopachus, Neotropical; Rhinoderma, Neotropical ; dte- 
lopus, Neotropical; Copea, Neotropical. 
Subfam. 3. PALUDICOLINA. 
Coracoids and precoracoids present ; also arciform cartilages. 
Genus Paludicola, Neotropical region. ; 
Section B. With mavillary teeth at some time of life, and with a 
tongue. 
Division I. Ear imperfect. 
Fam. VII. Bomsinatorip (Giinther). 
Tympanum and cavum tyampani present or absent; eustachian 
tubes always absent, or reduced to a minute foramen with an absent 
tympanum (Cacotus); transverse processes of sacral vertebra alinost 
always dilated ; no parotoid glands; tongue fixed in front ; toes free 
or webbed ; no digital disks; arciform cartilages present. 
Palearctic and Neotropical regions, and New Zealand. 
Subfam. 1. BOMBINATORINA. 
No tympanum ; no cavum tympani ; eustachian tubes rudimentary, 
minute, or wanting; tongue entirely adherent; fingers free; toes 
webbed ; vomerine teeth; vertebree opisthoccelian ; ribs present; a 
fronto-parietal fontanelle; prefrontals in contact anteriorly; one 
coccygeal cotylus. 
Genus Bombinator, Palearctic region: 
Subfam. 2. PELOBATINA. 
No tympanum ; no cavum tympani; eustachian tubes, if present, 
very narrow; tongue free behind (Didocus?), nearly entire; ver- 
tebrz proccelian ; no ribs ; vomerine teeth ; ‘‘ coccygeal style without 
condyloid articulation, its axial portion restricting that of the sacrum 
and connate with it.” 
Genera :—Pelobates, Europe; Didocus, Europe. 
Snbfam. 3. ALSODINA. 
No tympanum, cavum tympani, or eustachian tubes (T'e/mato- 
bius?); toes webbed; sacral vertebra not, or scarcely dilated ; ver- 
tebrz proccelian; no ribs; coccyx attached by two condyles ; vome- 
rine teeth present or absent. 
Genera.:—Alsodes, Neotropia; Telmatobius, Neotropia. 
Subfam. 4. Cacorina. 
Tympanum absent, but minute eustachian tubes; sacral vertebra 
not dilated; toes quite free ; vomerine teeth. 
Genus Cacotus, Giinther, P. Z. 8. 1868, p. 482, Neotropia. 
