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GEOGRAPHICAL ZOOLOGY, 
[PART IV. 
Family 1 6. — PELOD RYADHS. (3 Genera, 7 Species.) 
General Distribution. 
Neotropical 
Sub-regions, 
Nearctic 
Sub-regions. 
Pal^arctic 
Sub-regions. 
Ethiopian 
Sub-regions. 
Oriental 
Sub-regions. 
Austradian 
Sub-regions, 
1 . 2 
1 
1.2 
The Pelodryadse are Tree Frogs with neck-glands, and are 
confined to the Australian and Neotropical regions. The genera 
are : — 
Phyllomedusa (3 sp.), South America to Paraguay ; CMrodryas , 
Australia; and PUodryas (3 sp.), Moluccas, New Guinea and 
Australia. 
Family 17. — HYLIDiE. (11 Genera, 94 Species.) 
General Distribution. 
Neotropical 
.Sub-regions. 
Nearctic 
Pal A3 arctic 
Ethiopian I 
Oriental I 
Sub-regions. 
Sub-regions. 
Sub-regions. 
Sub- regions. | 
1 . 2 . 3. 4 1 . 2 . 3. 4 1 . 2 . 3 - 3 — 
Australian 
Sub-r KOTOWS. 
1.2 
The Hylidse are glandless Tree Frogs with a broadened sacrum. 
They are most abundant in the Neotropical region, which con- 
tains more than two-thirds of the species ; about twenty species 
are Australian ; six or seven are Nearctic, reaching northward to 
Great Bear Lake ; while one only is European, and one Oriental. 
The genera are : — 
Eyla (62 sp.), having the range of the whole family; Hylella 
(1 sp.), Ololygon (1 sp.), Pohlia (2 sp.), Triprion (1 sp.), Opistho - 
ddphys (1 sp.), and Nototrema (4 sp.), are South American ; while 
Trachycepludus (8 sp.), is peculiar to the Antilles, except one 
South American species ; Pseudacris (1 sp.), ranges from Georgia, 
United States, to Great Bear Lake ; Litoria (7 sp.), is Australian 
and Papuan, except one species in Paraguay; Geratohyla (4 sp.), 
is only known from Ecuador. 
