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REPTILES. 
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Family 18.— POLYPEDATID^E. (24 Genera, 124 Species.) 
General Distribution. 
Neotropical 
Sub-regions, 
Nearctic 
S UB-REGIONS. 
Pal^arctic 
Sub-regions. 
Ethiopian 
Sub-regions. 
Oriental 
Sub-regions. 
Australian 
Sub-regions. 
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The Polypedatidse, or glandless Tree Frogs with narrowed 
sacrum, are almost equally numerous in the Oriental and Neo- 
tropical regions, more than forty species inhabiting each, while 
in the Ethiopian there are about half this number, and the re- 
mainder are scattered over the other three regions, as shown in 
the enumeration of the genera : — 
Ixalus (16 sp.), Oriental, except one in Japan, and one in 
Western Polynesia ; Bhacophorus (7 sp.), and Theloderma (1 sp.), 
are Oriental ; Hylarana (10 sp.), Oriental, to the Solomon Islands 
and Tartary, Nicobar Islands, West Africa, and Madagascar; 
Megalixodus (1 sp.), Seychelle Islands ; Leptomantis (1 sp.), Philip- 
pines; Platymant.is (5 sp.), New Guinea, Philippines, and Fiji 
Islands ; Cornufer (2 sp), Java and New Guinea ; Polypedates (1 9 
sp.), mostly Oriental, but two species in West Africa, one Mada- 
gascar, two Japan, one Loo-Choo Islands, and one Hong Kong; 
Hylambates (3 sp.), Hemimantis (1 sp.), and Chiromantis (1 sp.), 
are Ethiopian ; PLappia (13 sp.), is Ethiopian, and extends to 
Madagascar and the Seychelle Islands ; Acris (2 sp.), is North 
American ; Elosia (1 sp.), Epirhixis (1 sp.), Phyllobates (9 sp.), 
Ilylodes (26 sp.), Hyloxalus (1 sp.), Pristimantis (1 sp Crosso- 
dactylus (1 sp.), Calostethus (1 sp.), Strabomantis (1 sp.), and 
Leiyla (1 sp.), are Neotropical, the last two being Central Ame- 
rican, while species of Hylodes and Phyllobates are found in the 
West Indian Islands. 
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