470 Records of the Indian Museum. [Voiv. XVI, 1919.] 



the Pelobatidae so as to include these toothless forms. Although 

 the definition will then be very vague indeed, the group will at 

 least be expressive of the natural affinities of its constituents, which 

 may be described as lowly forms approaching the Discoglossidae 

 and leading on the one hand to the Cystignathidae (through Batra- 

 chopsis, Blgr,), on the other to the Bufonidae, 



ADDENDA. 



Since this note was written, Dr. Annandale has submitted to 

 me two specimens of a toad from high altitudes in Kashmir, sent 

 to him quite recently by Mr. F. J. M. Mitchell, as representing the 

 adult of the tadpole described by him in these Records, XIII, 1917, 

 p. 417, figs, I, 2, as that of Rana pleskei, Gthr. I have no doubt 

 Mr. Mitchell's suggestion is correct, and as the toads belong to 

 Aehirophryne mammata, the resemblance of the tadpole to that of 

 Pelobates, with which I had been struck on reading Dr. Annan- 

 dale's description, is accounted for, and affords a confirmation of 

 the systematic position assigned to Aehirophryne. 



[I have to thank Mr. F. J. Mitchell for sending me further 

 specimens of the tadpole which I recently described as that of 

 Rana pleskii, and also of the adult which he believed, on my 

 identification of the larva, to belong to that species. It was quite 

 clear from the most superficial examination of the adult that it 

 was not Rana pleskii. Almost at the same time as I received 

 these specimens from Kashmir I also received from Dr. Boulenger 

 the manuscript of his paper on Aehirophryne. This coincidence 

 led me to re-examine all the material in the Indian Museum referred 

 to Rana pleskii, which includes specimens from Tibet named by 

 Dr. Boulenger as well as those collected in that country by Capt. 

 F. H. Stewart {Rcc. Ind. Mus. II, p. 345) and the tadpoles from 

 Kashmir described by me in Rec. Ind. Mus. XIII, p. 417. 



The eye was concealed in most of the specimens, but I found 

 that on dissecting off the lower eye-lid of some very young exam- 

 ples which had just lost their tails, the pupil appeared to be 

 slightly vertical though it was contracted to so small a speck that 

 its shape was hard to see, while in other young specimens it was 

 certainly not vertical. I still had very great difficulty in dis- 

 tinguishing the two forms on any other external character, as the 

 examples of neither were in good condition, but Mr. Mitchell's 

 series of beautifully preserved tadpoles and young of the species 

 common at high altitudes in Kashmir, leaves no possible doubt 

 that I had confused the young of Rana pleskii with those of 

 Aehirophryne, and that the tadpole which I ascribed to the former 

 really belongs to the latter. N. Annandale.] 



