DENDKOPHElKISCIDil!!. 273 



vertex flat ; tongue large, oblong, thick, slightly emarginate behind, 

 free in its posterior half. Maxillary teeth; palatine teeth none; 

 parotoids strong, produced much beyond the tympanum; latter 

 hardly distinct ; openings of the eustachian tubes round, perfectly 

 distinct. Fingers and toes free ; two metatarsal tubercles, mode- 

 rately developed. Diapophyses of sacral vertebra dilated, flat." 



JV. lateristriga, Steind. 1. c. pi. 14. f. 2.— Brazil. 



6. DENDROPHRYNISCID^. 



Dendrophi-yniscidEe, Eapada, Jorn, Sc. lAsh. iii. 1870, p. 66. 

 Batrachophrynidse, Cope, ChecMist N.-Amer. Batr. S,- Eept., Bull. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. i. 1877. 



Maxillary teeth none. Diapophyses of sacral vertebra not dilated. 

 _ This family is closely related to the preceding one, from which it 

 differs only in the absence of maxOlary teeth. 



1. BATRACHOPHRYNUS. 



Bati-aohophrynus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1873, p. 411. 



Pupil erect. Tongue large, circular, entirely adherent. Vomerine 

 teeth none. No tympanum nor eustachian tubes. Fingers free ; 

 toes webbed, the tips not dilated. Outer metatarsals united. A 

 cartilaginous omosternum ; sternum a cartilaginous plate. Terminal 

 phalanges simple. 



Peru. 



1. Batrachophrynus brachydactylus. 



Batrachophrynus brachydaotylus, Peters, I. c. p. 413, pi. 3. f. 4. 



Head small, much depressed ; snout short, rounded, without can- 

 thus rostralis ; eyes obliquely directed upwards ; upper eyelids 

 narrow. Fingers rather short, first and second equal ; toes mode- 

 rately long, two-thirds webbed; subarticular tubercles of fingers and 

 toes very small ; two small, scarcely prominent metatarsal tubercles. 

 The hind limb being carried forwards along the body, the tarso-me- 

 tatarsal articulation marks the tip of the snout in males, the eye in 

 females. Skin perfectly smooth. Olive above, spotted with darker. 

 Male without vocal sac. 



Peru. 

 a-d. S ? . High Pei-u. Prof. Taczanowski [P.]. 



2. Batrachophrynus macrostomus. 

 Batrachophrynus macrostomus, Peters, I.e. p. 412, pi. 2. f. 1. 

 Differs from the preceding species in the larger head, longer ante- 



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