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Bx\TRACHIA. 



CORNUFER DORSALIS, A. DuOl. 



Faro Island. 



Batrachylodes, g. n. Ranidarum. 



Pupil horizontal. Tongue oval, free and feebly nicked behind. 

 No vomerine teeth. Tympanum distinct. Fingers and toes free, 

 the tips dilated into large disks. Distal phalanges T-shaped. 

 Omosternum and sternum with a bony style. 



Batrachylodes vertebralis, sp. n. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 3.) 



Snout short, obtuse ; loreal region nearly vertical ; nostril nearer 

 the tip of the snout than the eye ; interorbital space broader than 

 the upper eyelid ; tympanum three fifths the diameter of the eye. 

 First finger shorter than second ; disk of third finger as large as the 

 tympanum ; disk of toes smaller than of fingers ; subarticular 

 tubercles feeble ; a rather indistinct, oval, inner metatarsal tubercle. 

 When the hind limb is pressed again&t the body, the tibio-tarsal 

 articulation marks the posterior border of the eye. Skin smooth 

 above and below. Grey-brown above; a fine whitish vertebral line, 

 continued along the upper face of the thigh and the outer side of the 

 tibia and tarsus; a whitish line on the canthus rostialis, extending 

 from eye to eye; it is continued behind the eye, as a gradually 

 widening band, to the groin ; side of head and of anterior half of 

 body dark brown ; indistinct brown bauds across the limbs ; lower 

 parts dirty white. 



From snout to vent 30 millim. 



A single adult female, from Faro Island. 



Hyla lutea, sp. n. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 4.) 



Tongue oval, slightly free and very slightly nicked behind. 

 Vomerine teeth in two strong transverse groups close together 

 between the choanae. Head much depressed, as long as broad or 

 slightly broader than long; snout rounded; canthus rostralis very 

 indistinct ; loreal region concave ; nostril nearer the tij» of the snout 

 than tlie eye, its distance from the latter equal to its d ameter ; 

 interorbital space broader than the upper eyelid ; tympanum veiy 

 distinct, about two thirds the diameter of the eye. Fingers halt- 

 webbed, the web nearly reaching the disks of the second and third 

 fingers; disks larger than the tympanum; no projecting rudiment 

 of pollex. Toes three-fouiths webbed, the disks as large as the 

 tympanum ; subarticular tubercles small and flat ; a small, flat, 

 inner metatarsal tubercle ; no cutaneous tarsal fold. When the hind 

 limb is pressed against the body, the tibio-tarsal aiticulation reaches 

 the tip of the snout or a little beyond. Skin smooth ; belly and 

 lower surface of thighs with large flat granules. Uniform lemon- 

 yellow above, white inferiorly ; a white line along the outer side of 

 the forearm and fourth finger and of the tarsus and fifth toe. 



