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ENSYSIOMATID^. 



blackish brown, with large light-olive spots. Male with a subgular 

 vocal sac. 

 S. W. Hindostan. 



a. Many spec. : c? , $ , & hgr. Malabar. Col. Beddome [P.]. 



(Types). 



b, a. $ & hgr. Nilgherries. W. Theobald, Escl. [P.]. 



12. XENOBATRACHUS. 



Xenobatrachus, Peters §■ Boria, Ann. Mas. Genov. xiii. p. 432. 



Pupil ? Tongue heart-shaped, free behind. Palatine bones 



each with two large curved teeth. Tympanum distinct. Fingers 

 and toes free, with swollen tips. Outer metatarsals united. Sternal 

 apparatus as in Callula. Diapophyses of sacral vertebra dilated. 



New Guinea. 



1. Xenobatrachus opModon. 



Xenobatrachus ophiodon, Peters 8/- Doria, I. c. pi. 7. f. 5. 



Head small ; snout rounded ; tympanum half the size of the eye. 

 First finger a little shorter than second ; tips of fingers and toes 

 swollen into very small disks ; no laetatarsal tubercles. The hind 

 limb being carried forwards along the body, the heel reaches nearly 

 the tip of the snout. Skin everywhere smooth. Brown above, irre- 

 gularly spotted and marbled with blackish ; whitish beneath,- the 

 throat and chest reticulated with brown. 



N. Guinea. 



13. PHRYNOMANTIS. 



'Brstahymeras, Smith, III. S. Afr., Kept. ; Giinth. Cai. p. 124; Cope, 



Nat. Hist. Pev. 1865, p. 102. 

 Phrynomantis, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1867, p. 35 : Cope, Journ. Ac. 



Philad. (2) -n. 1867, p. 192. 



Pupil erect. Tongue large, oblong, nicked behind. Vomerine teeth 

 none. A cutaneous fold across the palate, between the choanse. 

 Tympanum hidden. Fingers and toes free, the tips dilated into 

 regular disks ; outer metatarsals united. Precoracoids none ; no 

 omosternum; sternum cartilaginous. Diapophj'ses of sacral ver- 

 tebra strongly dilated. Terminal phalanges "["-shaped. 



Africa ; Austro-Malaysia. 



1. Phrjmomantis bifasciata. 



Brachymerus bifasciatus, Giinth. Cat. p. 124. 

 Brachymerus bifasciatus. Smith, I. o. pi. 63 ; Peters, Arch. f. Natwra. 

 1855, p. 58. ■ _ ' J y 



Phrynomantis bifasciata, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1867, p. 36. 



Habit rather stout. Head small ; snout rounded, longer than the 

 orbital diameter ; interorbital space broader than the upper eyelid. 

 Fingers moderate, first shorter than second ; toes short ; disks of 



