2. PSETTDOPHETNE. 277 



edge of the tarsus. The hind limb being carried forwards along the 

 body, the tibio-tarsal articulation marks the anterior angle of the • 

 eye. Upper surfaces with smooth flat warts ; a flat parotoid. 

 Terminal phalanges anchor-shaped. 

 E. Ecuador. 



2. PSEUDOPHRYNE. 



Pseudophryne, Fitzing. Syst. JRe.pt. i. p. 32: Qunth. Cat. p. 45 ; Cone, 



Nat. Sist. Rev. 1865, p. 103; 

 Phryniscus, sp., Bum. Sr Bibi: viii. p. 722. 



Pupil horizontal. Tongue elliptical, entire and free behind. 

 Vomerine teeth none. No tympanum. Fingers and toes free, the 

 tips not dilated. Outer metatarsals united. No omosternum ; 

 sternum cartilaginous. Diapophyses of sacral vertebra moderately 

 dilated. Terminal phalanges simple. 



Australia. 



Synopsis of the Species. 



I. One or two small rounded metatarsal tubercles ; tip of longest 

 toe reaching beyond the eye. 



Blackish brown above ; forehead yellowish. 1. austntUs, -p. 277 . 

 Brown or olive above, variegated with 



darker 2. bibronii, p. 278. 



YeUowish brown above ; sides blackish . . 3. coriacea, p. 278. 



II. Two large, oval, compressed metatarsal 

 tubercles; tip of longest toe not reaching 



beyond the eye 4. guentlwi, p. 279. 



1. Pseudophryne australis. 



Pseudophryne australis, Oimtli. Cat. p. 45. 

 Bombinator australis, Qray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1835, p. o7 ; Fyre, 



Journ. Exped. C. Austr. i. App. p. 407, pi. 1. f. 1. 

 Phryniscus albifi'ons, Dum. ^ Bibr. ix. p. 413, pi. 100. f. 3. 

 Pseudophryne australis, Kef erst. Arch. f. Naturg. 1868, p. 271. 



Snout rounded, a little longer than the orbital diameter, without 

 canthus rostralis ; interorbital space as broad as the upper eyelid. 

 Eiugers short, first much shorter than second ; toes short, quite 

 free, without even a rudiment of fringe ; subarticular tubercles 

 not very prominent; a small, not very prominent, rounded inner 

 metatarsal tubercle; outer tubercle none or very indistinct. The 

 hind limb being carried forwards along the body, the tip of the 

 longest toe always reaches beyond the eye ; the tibio-tarsal articu- 

 lation reaches the shoulder in the male, not so far in the female. 

 Skin smooth, or with very small, round, flat warts on the back. 

 Blackish brown above ; forehead and crown, a streak along the 

 ooccyx, a spot on the upper arm, and another on the thigh yellowish ; 

 beneath blackish, with large yellowish spots. Male with an internal 



