CHAP. SIX.] 



EEPTILES. 



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Oriental genera are : — Dicrogloss^is (1 sp.), Western Himalayas ; 

 Oxyglossus (2 sp.), Siam to Java, Philippines and China ; Hoplo- 

 batrachus (1 sp.), Ceylon; Fhrynoglossus (1 sp.), Siam, The 

 Ethiopian genera are : — Phrynohatrachtis (1 sp.), Stenorhynchus 

 (1 sp.), both from Natal. 



Family 20.— DISCOGLOSSID^. (14 Genera, 18 Species.) 



The Discoglossidte, or Frogs with a dilated sacrum, are re- 

 markable for the number of generic forms scattered over a large 

 part of the globe, being only absent from the Nearctic and the 

 northern half of the Neotropical regions, and also from Hindostan 

 and East Africa. The genera are : — 



Chiroleptes (4 sp.), Australia ; Calyplocephalus (1 sp.), allied to 

 the preceding, from Chili ; CryptoUs (1 sp.), Australia ; As- 

 terophys (2 sp.), New Guinea and Aru Islands ; Xcnophrys (1 sp.), 

 Eastern Himalayas ; Megaloplirys (2 sp.), Ceylon and the Malay 

 Islands ; Nannophrys (1 sp.), Ceylon ; Pelodytes (1 sp.), France 

 only ; LiptohracMum (1 sp.), Java ; Discoglossus (1 sp.), Vienna 

 to Algiers ; Laprissa (1 sp.), Latonia (1 sp.), Palsearctic region ; 

 Arthroleptis (2 sp.), West Africa and the Cape; Grypiscus (1 

 sp.), South Brazil. 



Family 21.— PIPID^. (1 Genus, 1 Species.) 



Geneeal Dlstribution. 



Neotropical 



Sub-regions. 



Nearctic 



Sub-regions. 



Pal.sarctic 



Sub-ueoion.s. 



Ethiopian , Oriental 



SuB-RKGioNa. I Sub-regions. 



Australian 

 Sub-regions. 



