ON THE FAMILIES OF THE RANIFORM ANURA. 195 



ADENOMERA Fitzinger. 



Ausbeute, Rept. Novara. Steindacliner, Amphib. Novara. 

 A. m a r m o r a t a Fitz., Steind. Tab. 



PHRYNISCID^ nobis. 



I. Prefrontals fully developed, forming suture with each other 

 and fronto-parietals. 



Ear perfectly developed ; toes webbed ; dorsum covered with a 



stratum of glands, Calophrtnus. 



II. Prefrontals small, widely removed from each other and 

 from the fronto-parietals. 



A. Ear perfectly developed. 



Two sharp-edged tubercles on metatarsus ; toes little webbed ; outer 



toe rudiraental ; muzzle simple, ....... Copea. 



No tubercles on metatarsus; toes slightly webbed, outer rudimental; 



muzzle simple. Two lobes of the liver, ..... Atelopus. 



Tubercles of tarsus rudimental ; toes slightly webbed, all well de- 

 veloped ; a horizontal dermal process on extremity of muzzle, . Ehinoderma. 



A A. Ear imperfectly developed. 



"Toes slightly webbed, outer small ; metatarsus simple ; muzzle sim- 

 ple ; liver with two lobes, Phrtnidium. 



Toes slightly webbed, no cutting metatarsal tubercles or dorsal der- 

 mal shield. Three lobes of the liver, Phrtj^iscus. 



Toes slightly webbed ; no cutting tubercles ; a broad dorsal osseous 



dermal shield, confluent with vertebral apophyses, . . . Brachtcephalus. 



CALOPHRYNUS Tschudi. 

 Batrachia, p. 86. 

 C. p 1 e u r s t i g m a Tsch. Borneo. 



Var. Sinensis, Peters, Monatsber. 1867. China. 



COPEA Steindachner. 



Verhandl. K. K. Zool. Bot. Gessel. Wien, 1864, 286. 



Not having examined the sternal or cranial characters of this genus, I place it 

 here, in accordance with the description and figure of Steindachner. 

 'C. ful va Steind. 1. c. Brazil. 



ATELOPUS Dum. Bibr. 



Erpetologie G^nerale, viii. 600. 



