I. BATRACHIA. 



(Plates ii — iv.) 



Bx N. AnnandaIvE, D.Sc, F.A.S.B., Superintendent, Indian 



Museum. 



Mr. Kemp's collection of Batrachia from the Abor country 

 and the frontiers of Assam comprises 57 specimens of frogs and 

 toads and a considerable number of tadpoles. With those obtained 

 on the Expedition of 191 1 — 1912 I have included two interesting 

 specimens taken by Mr. Kemp on a pievious visit to the frontier 

 of eastern Bhutan. In all at least 25 species are represented^ of 

 which about one-third are new to science, while several have only 

 been recorded hitherto from Burma or from Assam south of the 

 Brahmaputra. The collection, therefore, affords the opportunity 

 of making important additions to the fauna of the Himalayas, the 

 animals of the extreme eastern region of which have up to the 

 present been almost unknown. 



Part I. — Systematic. 

 List of species represented in Mr. Kemp's collection ;- 



1. Rana cyanophlydis. 



2. R. liehigii. 



3. R. iigrina. 



4- R. limnocharis. 



5. R. alticola. 



6. R. granulosa. 



7. R. afghana. 



8. R. gerbillus, nov. 



9. Micrixalus borealis, nov. 



10. Rhacophorus niaximus. 



11. Rh. himaculatiis. 



12. Rh. naso, nov. 



13. Rh. microdiscus, nov. 



14. Rhacophorus maculatus him- 



alayensis, nov. 



15. Rh. tuberculatus. 



16. Ixalus asper. 

 ly. I. annandalei. 



18. /. argus, nov. 



19. / tuberculatus. 



20. Chir ixalus doriae. 



21. Phrynoderma moloch, nov^ 



22. Bufo melanostictus. 



23. B. himalayaniis. 



24. Megahphrys (?) major . 



25. M. kempii, nov. 



(a) ADUI.TS. 

 Fam. RANIDAE. 

 I. Rana cyanophlyctis, Schneid. 



Boulenger, Fauna, p. 442. 



This frog occurs all over the plains of India and ascends the 

 Himalayas to altitudes of at least 5,000 ft. In Kumaon in the 



