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GEOGRAPHICAL ZOOLOGY. 



[part IV. 



Family 10.— rELODKYAD^F:. (3 Ceneia, 7 Species.) 



General Distuibutiox. 



The I'dodiyadie are Tree Frogs with neck-ghxnds, and are 

 confined to the Australian and Neotropical regions. The genera 

 are : — 



Fliyllomcdusa (3 sp.), South America to Paraguay; Chirodryas, 

 Australia; mid Pelodryas (3 sp.), Moluccas, New Cluinea and 

 Australia. 



Family IT.— IIYLIJXE. (11 Genera, 94 Species.) 



General Distribution. 



Keotropical 

 kcib-regions. 



Nearctic I Pal.earctic I Ethiopian I Oriental I Australian 

 Sub-regions. Sub-kegions. Sub-ricgions. Sub-uegkins. | Sur.-Ri-GKjNs. 



1.2.3.4- 1.2.3.4 



1 .2.3 



1.2 



The llylidiB are glandless Tree Frogs with a hroadened sacrum. 

 They are most ahundant in tlie Neotropical region, whicli con- 

 tains more than two-thirds of the species ; al)0ut twenty species 

 are Australian ; six or seven are Nearctic, reaching northward to 

 Great Bear Lake ; while one only is European, and one Oriental. 

 The genera are : — 



Ilyla (62 sp.), having the range of the whole family ; Il/jlclla 

 (1 sp.), Ololyijon (1 sp.), Pohlia (2 sp.), Triprion (1 sp.), Opistlio- 

 ddphys (1 sp.), and Nototrema (4 sp.), are South American ; while 

 Trachyccp)lialus (8 sp.), is peculiar to the Antilles, except one 

 South American species ; Fscudacris (1 sp.), ranges from Georgia, 

 United States, to Great Bear Lake ; Litoria (7 sp.), is Australian 

 and Papuan, except one species in Paraguay ; Ccratohyla (4 sp.), 

 is only known from Eeu:idor. 



