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REPTILES. 
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Oriental genera are: — Dicroglossus (1 sp.), Western Himalayas; 
Oxyglossus (2 sp.), Siam to Java, Philippines and China ; Hoplo- 
batrachus (1 sp.), Ceylon; Phrynoglossus (1 sp.), Siam. The 
Ethiopian genera are : — Phrynobatmckus (1 sp.), Stenorhynchus 
(1 sp.), both from Natal. 
Family 20.— HISCOGLOSSFDzE. (14 Genera, 18 Species.) 
General Distribution. 
NEOTROPICAL 
Sub-regions. 
Nearctic 
Sub-regions, 
Palsearctic 
Sub-regions. 
Ethiopian 
Sub-regions. 
Oriental 
Sub-regions. 
Australian 
Sub-regions. 
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I 1.2 
1 
The Discoglossidse, or Frogs with a dilated sacrum, are re- 
markable for the number of generic forms scattered over a large 
part of the globe, being only absent from the Nearctic and the 
northern half of the Neotropical regions, and also from Hindostan 
and East Africa. The genera are : — 
Chiroleptes (4 sp.), Australia ; Calyplocephalus (1 sp.), allied to 
the preceding, from Chili ; Cryptotis (1 sp.), Australia ; As- 
ter ophys (2 sp.), New Guinea and Aru Islands ; Xenophrys (1 sp.), 
Eastern Himalayas ; Megalophrys (2 sp.), Ceylon and the Malay 
Islands ; Nannophrys (1 sp.), Ceylon ; Pelodytes (1 sp.), France 
only; Leptobrachium (1 sp.), Java ; PHscoglossus (1 sp.), Vienna 
to Algiers ; Laprissa (1 sp.), Latonia (1 sp.), Palsearctic region ; 
Arthroleptis (2 sp.), West Africa and the Cape; Grypiscus (1 
sp.), South Brazil. 
Family 21. — PIPHEE, (1 Genus, 1 Species.) 
General Distribution. 
Neotropical 
Sra-REGIONS. 
Nearctic 
Sub-regions. 
Palsearctic 
Sub-regions. 
Ethiopian 
Sub-regions.. 
i Oriental 
Sub-regions. 
Australian 
Sub-regions. 
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