262 CrSTIGNAIHID^. 



6. Limnodyuastes omatus. 



Limnodynastes ornatuB, Cfiinth. Cat. p. 33. 

 Discoglossua ornatus, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 56. 

 Perialia ornata, Gi-ay, in Eyre's Journ. Exped. Centr. Austr. i., App. 



p. 407, pi. 2. f. 2. 

 Platypleetrum marmoratum, Gilnth. Ann. Sr Mag. N. H. (3) xi. 



p. 27, pi. 4. f. A ; P^ferst. Gotting. Nachr. 1867, p. 345, and Arch. 



f. Ifaturg. 1868, p. 261. 



occidentals, Cope, Journ. Ac. Philad. (2) vi. 1866, p. 90. 



oruatum, Kef erst. Gotting. Nachr. 1867, p. 346, and Arch. f. 



Naturg. 1868, p. 261. 

 Opisthodon frauenfeldii, Steindachn. Novara, Amph. p. 9, pi. 1. 



f. 1-4. 

 Limnodynastes ornatus, Giinth. Zool. Mec. iv. p. 145. 



Habit of Alytes ohstetricans. Tongue subcircular, entire or 

 slightly nicked behind. Vomerine teeth in a straight or slightly 

 arched, scarcely interrupted series behind, not extending outwards 

 beyond the choanse. Snout rounded, as long as the orbital dia- 

 meter; nostril equally distant from the eye and the tip of the 

 snout; interorbital space narrower than the upper eyelid; tym- 

 panum indistinct. First and second fingers equal ; two metacarpal 

 tubercles ; toes rather short, one-third webbed, the web extending 

 as a fringe to their tips ; subarticular tubercles well developed; inner 

 metatarsal tubercle large, shovel- shaped. The hind limb being 

 carried forwards along the body, the tarso-metatarsal articulation 

 reaches the eye, or between the eye and the tip of the snout. Skin 

 of upper surfaces with small smooth tubercles. Olive above, marbled 

 vrith darker ; generally a light, dark-edged cross band between the 

 eyes ; sometimes a light spot on the occiput ; sometimes a light 

 vertebral stripe ; beneath immaculate. Male with a subgular vocal 

 sac and, during the breeding-season, brown rugosities on the inner 

 side of the two first digits. 



Australia. 



Cryptotis, Giinth. Ann. S^ Mag. N. H. (3) xi. 1863, p. 27 ; Cope, Nat. 

 'Hist. Rev. 1865, p. 107, and Journ. Ac. Philad. (2) vi. 1866, p. 80. 



* The female has on the breast two cicatrices which are cTidently cau.sed by 

 the thumbs of the male ; this proves that the male seizes the female under the 

 axilloe, and not round tlie waist as in Pelobatidie and Bomhinaloridce, with which 

 Limnodynastes bears great external resemblance. 



