§2 CATALOGUE OF AMPHIBIA, 
Fam. I. PROTONOPSID&. 
Body depressed, fringed on the sides. 
Legs four, well developed, fringed on the sides. 
Toes 4: 5. 
Hlead depressed. Bones of skull soldered together. 
Jaws with a single series of teeth. 
Palate with an arched series of teeth on the front edge of the 
vomer, near to and parallel with the intermaxillary and maxillary 
teeth. See t.3. f.18. 
Amphiumide (part.) Gray, Ann. Phil. 1825 ; Bonap. Desc. Anim. 
Vert. 26. 1832. 
Andriadina et Protonopsidina Bonap. Fauna Ital. i. 131., Amph. 
Eur. 
Synopsis of Genera. 
1. Sresoitp1A. Tail depressed at the base, compressed at the end. 
Toes free. 
2. Proronorsis. ‘Tail compressed. Toes webbed. 
1. STIEBOLDIA. 
Head large, ovate, trigonate, densely glandular. Muzzle produced. 
Crown convex. Forehead concave. Nostrils marginal, approxi- 
mate. Eyes very small, scarcely to be seen. Parotids none. 
Tongue not distinct; united to the tegument of the base of the 
mouth. Palatine teeth numerous. — Feet with a crustaceous 
appendage behind. Toes 4:5, small, free, depressed, with a 
depressed lateral cutaneous lobe.— Tail depressed, roundish at 
the base.—Body depressed, with transverse plaits and a thick — 
cutaneous appendage along each side. 
Megalobatrachus Tschudi, Batrac. 61. 96. 1838; Fitz. S. R. 34. 
Sieboldia Bonap. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1837, Fauna Ital. ii. 131. n. 2. 
Cryptobranchus sp. Van der Hoeven. P. Z. S. 1838, 25., Tijdsch. 1. 
Salamandra sp. Schlegel. 
Hydrosalamandra Leuckart, Froriep. Not. xii. 19. 
1. SIEBOLDIA MAXIMA. 
Megalobatrachus Sieboldii Tschudi, Batr. 96.; Fitz. S. R. 33. 
Salamandra maxima Schlegel, Fauna Japon. vii. t. 6, 7, 8. 
Sieboldia maxima C. Bonap. MS. 1837, Proc. Zool. Soc. 183" 
Fauna Ital. 11. 131. 
