. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. 3S8 Mr. G. A. Boulenger on Batrachians. specimens from the island of Nias, I am now able to add to mj diagnosis that humeral glands are absent and the vocal sacs internal. Ehombophryne, Bottg. Ithomhophn/ne,B Jttg. Zool. Anz. 1880, p. 567, and Abh. Senck. Ges. xii. 1882, p. 494. This remarkable genus was established on the external characters only. The following generic diagnosis, drawn from the osteological chai'acters also, will supplement Bott- ger's excellent description.
. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. 3S8 Mr. G. A. Boulenger on Batrachians. specimens from the island of Nias, I am now able to add to mj diagnosis that humeral glands are absent and the vocal sacs internal. Ehombophryne, Bottg. Ithomhophn/ne,B Jttg. Zool. Anz. 1880, p. 567, and Abh. Senck. Ges. xii. 1882, p. 494. This remarkable genus was established on the external characters only. The following generic diagnosis, drawn from the osteological chai'acters also, will supplement Bott- ger's excellent description. Pupil horizontal. Tongue large, elongate, entire, free at the sides only, longitudinally grooved. A non-interrupted angular series of palatine teeth. A cutaneous fold across the palate between the choange. Tympanum hidden. Fingers and toes free, the latter with the tips slightly dilated. Outer metatarsals united. Inner metatarsal tubercle very r Coracoids strongly dilated, directed a little backwards; pre- coracoids extremely feeble ; no oraosternum ; sternum large, cartilaginous. Sacral vertebra with feebly dilated diapophyses, articulated to coccyx by two condyles. Terminal phalanges simple. In its skeleton Rhomhophi-yne approaches much nearer Scaphioiohryne than Breviceps^ near which it was provisionally placed. I take this opportunity to correct a serious error of Parker*, which has recently been repeated by Sabatier f. The former author has described and figured the sternal apparatus of two *' species " of Breviceps, viz. Systoma gihhosiim, Wagl., and S. granos7tm, Dum. (these names are synonyms), which are said to differ from each other in having the elements of the pectoral arch precisely reversed as to shape and relative size. * 'Monograph of the Shoulder-Girdle' (Ray Soc. 1868). t ' Comparaison des ceiutures et des membres ant^rieur et post^rieur dans la s^rie des verti5br^s ' (1880).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images th
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