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Show 1895.] MR. G. A. BOULENGER O N APODAL BATRACHIANS. 403 b. Squamosals separated from parietals. Tentacle valvular, close to the eye 5. R H I N ATREMA. Tentacle valvular, below and behind the nostril 6. GEOTRYPETES. Tentacle conical, below the nostril , 7. UR^EOTYPHLUS. 2. A single series of teeth in the lower jaw; tentacle globular, in front of the eye 8. CRYPTOFSOPHIS. B. Eyes below the cranial bones; squamosals in contact with parietals ; tentacle globular. Tentacle below and a little behind the nostril 9. HERPELE. Tentacle nearer the commissure of the jaws than the nostril 1°- GYMNOPTS. II. No scales. A. Eyes distinct or concealed under the skin. 1. Two series of teeth in the lower jaw. Parietals and squamosals in contact 11. TYPIILONECTES. Parietals separated from squamosals 12. CIITHONERPETO.W 2. A single series of teeth in the lower jaw. Parietals and squamosals in contact 13. SIPHONOPS. Parietals separated from squamosals 14. JBDELLOPHIS. B. Eyes below the cranial bones. Two series of teeth in the lower jaw; parietals and squamosals in contact 15. GEGENOPIIIS. A single series of teeth in the lower jaw; parietals separated from squamosals 16. SCOLECOMORPHUS 1. ICHTHTOPHIS. fchthyophis, Fitzing. N. Class. Rept. p. 36 (1826) ; Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1879, p. 931; Bouleng. Cat. p. 89 (1882). Epicrium, Wagl. Isis, 1828, p. 743, and Syst. Amph. p. 198 (1830); Dum. & Bibr. viii. p. 285 (1841); A. Dum. Mem. Soc. Cherb. ix. 1863, p. 319. Synopsis of the Species. Snout as long as tbe distance between the eyes; a yellow lateral band 1. glutinosus. Snout shorter than the distance between the eyes; no lateral band 2. monochrous. *1. ICHTHYOPHIS GLUTINOSUS. Ccecilia glutinosa, Linn. Mus. Ad. Frid. p. 19, pi. iv. fig. 1 (1754), and S. N. i. p. 393 (1766); Daud. Rept. vii. p. 418 (1803); Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1864, p. 303. Ccecilia viscosa, Latr. Rept. iv. p. 238 (1802) Ichthyophis hasseltii, Fitzing. N. Class, p. 63 (1826). Ccecilia hypocyanea, Hasselt, Isis, 1827, p. 565 ; Mull. Zeitschr. f. Physiol, iv. 1831, p. 195, and Arch. Anat. Phys. 1835, p. 391, pi. viii. figs. 12-14; Schleg. Abbild. p. 119, pi. xxxix. fig. 1 (1844). Epicrium hasseltii, Wagl. Isis, 1828, p. 743. Epicrium gluiinosum, Dum. & Bibr. viii. p. 286 (1841) ; A. Dum. Mem. Soc. Cherb. ix. 1863, p. 319 ; Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 441 (1864). 26* |