PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



by the 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM 

 Vol. 91 Washington : 1941 No. 3128 



REPORT ON THE SMITHSONIAN-FIRESTONE EXPEDI- 

 TION'S COLLECTION OF REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS 

 FROM LIBERIA 



By Arthur Loveridge 



Dr. William M. Mann, director of the National Zoological Park in 

 Washington and leader of the Smithsonian-Firestone Expedition, 

 1940, is to be congratulated on finding time to assemble a representa- 

 tive collection of the Liberian herpetofauna, despite the exacting 

 duties involved in the capture and care of wild creatures, the securing 

 of which was the primary purpose of his journey. 



This coUection, consisting as it does of over 500 specimens repre- 

 senting 56 species, naturally adds considerably to our knowledge of 

 the lower vertebrates of the country whose fauna is so imperfectly 

 known as that of the Liberian Republic. Among the results of a 

 study of this material, therefore, the following species have had to 

 be described as new : 



Typhlops manni, new species from Harbel. 

 Hylamlatcs cochranae, new species from Bendaja. 

 Leptopelis Icquaerti, new species from Gbanga, Gibi, etc. 



Rana albolabris parkeriana, new name for acutirostris Parlier, preoccupied. 

 (This is the Angolan race of the typical form occurring in Liberia.) 



In addition we are able to add the undermentioned to the steadily 

 growing list of species to be found within the boundaries of the 

 Republic : 



Boaedon Uneatus lineatus. Rana longirostris. 



Crotaphopeltis duchesnii guineensis. Phryno'batrachus natalensis. 

 Eylambates leonardi. 



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