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■r PART II. 



Batrachians and Reptiles. 



BY 



LEONHARD STEJNEGER, 



U. S. National Museum. 



AS might be expected, the collection of batrachians and reptiles 

 brought home by Mr. Hatcher is not rich in species, for it con- 

 tains only one of the former and seven of the latter. On the 

 other hand, nearly all the species are represented by numerous specimens, 

 so that in several cases the limits of the species could be better defined 

 than heretofore. It was thus possible from this material to demonstrate 

 the distinctness of two species described from the collections brought 

 home by Charles Darwin, but later confounded and regarded as individual 

 variations of a single species. Without the large series it would probably 

 also have been impossible to establish the existence of the species which 

 in the following pages is described as new. 



^ Unfortunately, however, hardly any definite localities are given where 

 the specimens were actually collected. Only three of the specimens were 

 individually labeled, but in every jar there is one or more slips of paper 

 with a note in lead pencil indicating the nature of the station or the gen- 

 eral distribution of the species. In one jar, there are several notes of a 

 more definite geographical significance, but unfortunately they refer to 

 three different localities and dates, while the jar contained a large number 

 of specimens belonging to two species. In order to preserve every scrap 

 of evidence which may tend to fix the localities approximately I submit 

 a list of the contents of each jar, as follows : 



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