1040 CLASS AMPHIBIA. 



Family Hyl^obatrachid^e. — This family is formed for the 



Fig. 972. — Anterior part of the skeleton of Megalobatrachus Scheuchzeri ', from the 

 Upper Miocene of Switzerland. Reduced. 



reception of Hylceobatrachus, from the Wealden of Belgium, which 

 appears to be an ancestral form allied to the Proteidce^ but distin- 



