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Cornufer guppyi Boulenger 



Comufer guppyi Boulenger, P. Z. S., 1884, p. 211; Trans. Zool. Soc. 12, 



1886, p. 53, pi. 11, fig. 1. 

 Cornufer dorsalis Boulenger, P. Z. S., 1887, p. 337. 



When Boulenger described this species he had two specimens 

 from Treasury Island, and he closed his description with the 

 remark that: "Comufer guppyi is allied to C. dorsalis A. Dum., 

 from the Fiji Islands, but differs chiefly in the broader and more 

 depressed head and the larger disks of the toes." In 1887, with- 

 out any comment whatsoever, and by name alone, he recorded 

 the Fijian species from Faro Island. This may have been a 

 lapsus, or perhaps, with insufficient material, — for Woodford 

 usually obtained only very small series, — Dr. Boulenger was 

 misled by the variability of the species. Dr. Mann obtained 

 six from the coast of Malaita, one enormous adult, over 100 mm. 

 long; one large adult from Ysabel; one, half -grown, from Santa 

 Ana; five, half-grown and young, from Atta, highlands of 

 Malaita. 



It has been possible to compare these with fresh specimens 

 of C. dorsalis from Fiji. The adults are easily separable, but 

 the characteristic form of the head is not assumed at once and 

 the size of the digital dilatations varies so that until some 

 much more detailed evidence is forthcoming it is best to ex- 

 clude this most obviously improbable record. 



Rana krefftii Boulenger 



Rana krefftii Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Ecaud., 1882, p. 64, pi. 3, fig. 2; Rec. 

 Indian Mus., 20, 1920, p. 186. 



This frog is the Solomon Island representative of the Hylor- 

 ana stock, which is widely spread in Papuasia. Krefft's frog has 

 been reported from New Britain and from most of the Solomon 



