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290 MR. ST. GEORGE MIVART ON ANUROUS BATRACHIANS. [May 13, Genera:-Breviceps, Ethiopian region; Chelydobatrachus, .Aus­tralian ; Hypopachus, Neotropical; Rhinoderma, Neotropical; Ate-lopus, Neotropical; Copea, Neotropical. Subfam. 3. PALUDICOLINA. Coracoids and precoracoids present; also arciform cartilages. Genus Paludicola, Neotropical region. Section B. With maxillary teeth at some time of life, and with a tongue. Division I. Ear imperfect. Fam. VII. BOMBINATORIDAE (Giinther). Tympanum and cavum tyampani present or absent; eustachian tubes always absent, or reduced to a minute foramen with an absent tympanum (Cacotus); transverse processes of sacral vertebra almost always dilated ; no parotoid glands ; tongue fixed in front ; toes free or webbed ; no digital disks ; arciform cartilages present. Palaearctic and Neotropical regions, and New Zealand. Subfam. 1. BOMBINATORINA. No tympanum ; no cavum tympani; eustachian tubes rudimentary, minute, or wanting; tongue entirely adherent; fingers free; toes webbed; vomerine teeth; vertebrae opisthoccelian ; ribs present; a fronto-parietal fontanelle; prefrontals iu contact anteriorly; one coccygeal cotylus. Genus Bombinator, Palaearctic region. Subfam. 2. PELOBATINA. No tympanum ; no cavum tympani; eustachian tubes, if present, very narrow; tongue free behind (Didocusl), nearly entire; ver­tebrae proccelian ; no ribs ; vomerine teeth ; " coccygeal style without condyloid articulation, its axial portion restricting that of the sacrum and connate with it." Genera :-Pelobates, Europe ; Didocus, Europe. Subfam. 3. ALSODINA. No tympanum, cavum tympani, or eustachian tubes (Telmato-biusl); toes webbed; sacral vertebra not, or scarcely dilated ; ver­tebrae proccelian ; no ribs ; coccyx attached by two condyles ; vome­rine teeth present or absent. Genera :-Alsodes, Neotropia ; Telmatobius, Neotropia. Subfam. 4. CACOTINA. Tympanum absent, but minute eustachian tubes; sacral vertebra not dilated; toes quite free ; vomerine teeth. Genus Cacotus, Giinther, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 482, Neotropia.