ON THE FAMILIES OF THE RANIFORM ANURA. 197 



BRACHYCEPHALUS Fitzinger. 



Neue Class. Kept. 1826, Wagler, Tschudi, Dum. Bibr., Gthr. Epldppi/er Coct. 

 1835. 

 B. e p li i p p i u m Spix (Bu/o) Fitzinger, Girard. Epliippifer sinxii Cocteau. Brazil • 



DENDROBATIDJE Gthr. 



O. o. prefrontalia widely separated ; ethmoid bx'oad, ossified to extre- 

 mity of muzzle ; no parotoid glands or metatarsal shovel ; termi- 

 nal phalanges with two divaricate limbs supporting dilatations ; 

 tongue narrow, free and entire behind, ..... Dendrobates. 



DENDROBATES Wagler. 

 Natiirl, Syst. Amphib. 1830, 202, Dum. Bibr. Hylaplesia Gthr. Catal. (not of 



Boie.) 



D. tinctorius Schneider {Galamita). Rana Shaw. Ht/Ia Latreille, Daudin, Cu- 

 vier. Hylaplesia ^oiqI Phyllobates auratus Girard, U. S. Astron. Exp. Chili 

 hinc Eijlaplesia aurata Cope, fide Steindachner. Brazil, Columbia, Cayenne. 



D. nigerrimus Spix [Hyla) Dendrobates Wagl. Hylaplesia picta Tschudi, Giln- 

 ther et Dendr. ohscurus Guichenot, in Casteln. Anim. nov. Amer. Sud. Tab., 

 fide Steindachner Verhandlungen K. K. Zool. Bot. Gess, 1864, 257. Brazil. 



D. truncatus Cope, Phyllobates et Hylaplesia Cope. Proceed. Acad. 1863, 49. 

 Central America. 



D. speciosus Schmidt, Dcukschr. Acad. Wiss. Wien. 249. Tab. Giinther Catal. 

 Andes of New Grenada, six thousand feet (Schmidt.) 



D. p u m i 1 i o Schmidt, 1. c. Same habitat. 



D. lateralis Gay, Chili, ii. p. 120, tab. 5, f. 2. Hylaplesia Giinther, I. c. Chile. 



GOLOSTETHID^ mihi. 



Cranium fully developed ; ethmoid plate broadly ossified to end muzzle, 

 separating the narrow prefrontals. Terminal phalanges with trans- 

 verse limb supporting digital dilatations ; no vomerine teeth or me- 

 tatarsal tubercles ; tongue cylindric, free behind, . . . CoLOSTETurs. 



COLOSTETHUS Cope. 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1866, 130. 



C. 1 a t i n a s u s Cope, 1. c. Phyllobates latinasiis 1. c. 1863, 48. New Grenada. 



It is not at all certain that Phyllobates melanorldnus Bertliold does not belong to 



this genus. 



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