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BUrONID^. 



the tip of the snout. Upper surfaces covered with closely set, 

 smooth round warts of different sizes, the largest being distinctly 

 porous ; sides and lower surfaces granulate. Dark brown above, . 

 the largest warts light-coloured ; light brown beneath, immaoulate. 

 Male with a subgular vocal sac. 

 Java. 



«• <i ■ Java. Dr. Bleeker. 



6. NOTADEN. 



Notaden, Oiinth. Ann. §• Mag. N. H. (4) xi. 187S, p. 349. 



Pupil horizontal. Tongue circular, entire, free behinS. Vome- 

 rine teeth. A dermal ridge between the choanae, and another in 

 front of this. Tympanum hidden. Fingers free ; toes webbed, the 

 tips not dilated. Outer metatarsals united. Omosternum and 

 sternum cartilaginous, rudimentary. Diapophyses of sacral ver- 

 tebra moderately dilated. Terminal phalanges simple. 



Australia. ' • »»«■ * 



1. Notaden bennetti. (Plate XXII. flg. 3.) 

 Notaden bennetti, Oiinth. ?. c. p. 360. 



Habit extremely stont. Two small bony prominences close 

 together behind the level of the choanse. Head very short and 

 high ; cleft of mouth not extending beyond the vertical of the 

 centre of the eye ; latter moderately large, scarcely prominent ; in- 

 terdrbital space as broad as the upper eyelid. Limbs short, clumsy ; 

 fingers and toes short, depressed, latter webbed at the base ; first 

 and second fingers equal ; subartioular tubercles of fingers slightly 

 distinct, of toes quite indistinct ; a large shovel-shaped inner meta- 

 tarsal tubercle; no other tubercle. Skin of the back strongly 

 glandular, very thick ; upper surfaces with flat warts. Light olive 

 above, with a large cross-shaped blackish marking on the back ; 

 sides and limbs blackish, white-spotted ; beneath whitish, throat 

 with scattered black spots. 



E. Australia. 



a. 5 . Castlereagh Eiver. Sydney Museum. 



h. 5 . Caatlereagh Eiver. Dr. Bennett [P.]. 



c. Yg. Wilson's River, Queensland. 



7. MTOBATRACHUS. 



Myohatraohus, ScJdeg. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860, p. 9 ; Oiinth. Cat. pp. 3 



&128. 

 Chelydohatrachus, {Oray) Oiinth. Cat. p. 273. 



