^Im""] BARBOUR — REPTILES FROM SINAI AND SYRIA 79 



Bufo regularis Reuss. 



Eight adults from Petra. Curiously enough, toads were met 

 with in no other locality, and it is interesting to find, in a collection 

 from this site, specimens of the only two toads from the region, one, 

 regularis, quite indistinguishable from a widespread African form, 

 the other, viridis, apparently as similar to a widespread European 

 species. 



Rana ridibunda Pallas. 



Only one frog occurs in the region of Palestine, and a series 

 of this species was preserved from Ain Musa, Mount Nebo, north 

 end of the Dead Sea, from Wady Kerak, east of the Dead Sea, and 

 from Hibbariyeh, near Mount Hermon. 



REPTILIA. 



SAURIA. 



Stenodactylus guttatus Cuvier. 



Collected twice: at Wady Gharbeh, Sinai, one specimen, and 

 at the oasis of Feiran, Sinai, three specimens. So far as I am 

 aware, no other species of this genus has hitherto been recorded from 

 Syria or Sinai. 



Stenodactylus elimensis^ sp. nov. 



Type, an adult specimen, no. 9631, M. C. Z., collected at Wady Gharan- 

 del, Sinai, by J. C. Phillips, March 25, 1914. 



I Wady Gharandel was the site of the ancient Elim, the second station where 

 the Israelites encamped the fourth day after crossing the Red Sea. (E.xodus, 

 XV. 27). 



