PA.RT I. 

 ARRANGEMENT 



OF 



THE FAMILIES AND HIGHER DIVISIONS 



OF 



BATRACHIA AND REPTILIA. 



[ADOPTED PROVISIONALLY BY THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.] 



Class BATRACHIA. 



Order ANUEA. 

 (Anura, Dumeril ; Salientia, Merrem, Gray.) 



Eanifoemia. 



(Eaniformia, Cope, Nat. Hist. Eev., y, 114, 1865.*) 



Eanidae =Eanidae, Cope, 1^. H. Eev., v, 114- 



119, 1865.' 

 Colostethidae = Colostethidae, Cope, P. A. 'N. S. 



Phila., 1866, 130.' 



1 Raniformia, partim, Dam. et Bib., Erp. G6n. 



2 Ranidae, Cope, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., n. s., vi, 189, 1867 ; Banidae, Polypedati- 

 dae, and Cystignathidae, pars, Gthr., Cat. Bat. Salien., IS58, 4-26. 



3 Colostethidae, Cope, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., n. s., vi, 197, 1867 ; " Calostethidae," 

 Mivart, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loudon, 1869. 



