PELODYTES. 



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Fig. 67. 



(1876); Heron-Royer, Bull. Soc. Zool. Prance, 1878, pp. 128 

 & 299, pi. iii, and 1879, p. 229, pis. x and xi ; Boulenger, 

 Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1880, p. 225, and Oat. Batr. Ecaud., 

 p. 438 (1882); Peracca, Boll. Mus. Torin., i, 1886, No. 1; 

 Heron-Royer, Bull. Soc. Et. Sc. Angers, xv, 1886, p. 91; 

 Heron-Royer & Van Bambeke, Arch. Biol., ix, 1889, p. 277, 

 pi, XX, figs. 5—12; Bedriaga, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc, 1889, 

 p. 533, and Amph. Rept. Portug., p. 20 (1890) ; Boulenger, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc, 1891, p. 617, pi. xlvii, figs. 1 & 2; Bedriaga, 

 Amph. Rept. Portug., Suppl., p. 11 (1893); Martin & 

 Rollinat, Vert. Dep. Indre, p. 349 (1894). 

 Pelodytes daudini, Bosca, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1880, p. 255. 



Vomerine teeth in two short transverse or sHghtly 

 oblique series on a line with the anterior borders of 

 the choanas ; these series either close 

 together or nearer the choante than 

 each other. Tongue large, circular, 

 entire or feebly nicked behind. 



Head much depressed, as long as 

 broad or slightly broader than long; 

 snout rounded, projecting beyond the 

 mouth, as long as the diameter of the 

 orbit; canthus rostralis rounded; loreal 

 region grooved; nostril midway between 

 the eye and the tip of the snout or a little 

 nearer the latter ; eye large, prominent ; interorbital 

 space as broad as or a little narrower than the upper 

 eyelid, and equal to the distance between the nostrils; 

 tympanum usually moderately distinct, sometimes 

 hidden, one-half to three-fifths the diameter of the eye. 



Fingers rather elongate, somewhat swollen at the 

 end, third much the longest, first a little shorter than 

 second, which is a little shorter than fourth ; basal 

 subarticular tubercles distinct; three palmar tubercles, 

 median smallest and circular. 



Hind limb rather slender; the tibio-tarsal articu- 

 lation reaches the eye or between the eye and the 

 nostril ; tibia a little longer than femur, the heels 

 overlapping when the legs are folded at right angles 

 to the rhachis. Foot as long as or a little longer 

 than the tibia ; toes slender, webbed at the base, the 

 web extending as a fringe along each side to the 



Open mouth. 



