20 L. G, ANDERSSON, CATAL. OF LINNEAN TYPE-SPECIMENS OF REPTILIA. 



Tliere is no specimen in the museum marked Bana Bufo 

 on a Drottningholm label: See Bana ventricosa! 



Råna gibbosa. 



Linnteus in Åmoen. acad. Tom. I, N:o XI, p. 286, N: 10; Mus. 

 Ad. Frid. 7, p. 48. Syst. nat. Ed. X, -p. 211. Syn. in Boul. Cat. 

 Batr. sal. p. 176, Breviceps gibbosus (L.). 



One specimen from Mus. Drottnli. It is a true Brevi- 

 ceps gihhosns (L.). 



Length af tlie body 41 inm., of the femur 14 mm., of the tibia 

 12,5 mm., of the tarsus with the 4th toe 23 mm. 



Råna cornuta. 



Liunfeus in Mas. Ad. Frid. /, p. 48. Syst. Nat. Ed. X, p. 212. 

 Syn. in Boul. Cat. Batr. sal., p. 224. Coratophrys cornuta (L.). 



One specimen from Mus. Drottnli. 



This specimen lias already been examined by Professor 

 Peters in 1872 in his paper: »Z)?e von Spix in Brasilien ge- 

 sammelten Batrachier des Königlichen Natur alienkaljinets zu 

 3Iiinchen» in Monatsber. d. Akademie d. Wissensch. zu Berlin. 

 Bd. 37. 1872. He then borrowed the Linnean type speci- 

 men from this museum, and in a note on p. 204 loc. cit. he 

 says tliat there is no doubt that the Linnean specimen is 

 identical with Bana megastoma Spix and Bana cornuta auc- 

 torum. The specimen is, as also Peters states, almost comple- 

 tely discoloured, and the horn of the left eye is divided at 

 ^the top into three small points {i^apice tridentata» Linnseus), 

 while that of the right one is quite straight-cut. The toes are 

 two-thirds webbed. The specimen is also provided on the 

 back with two ridges, composed of tubercles grown together 

 and very much like those that are pictured and described in 

 Ceratophri/s Boiei Wied, although they do not reach as 

 far as to the horns of the eyes, but end a little behind the 

 eyes. 



I have not found that the authors speak of such regu- 

 lar ridges in this species, but as Peters does not mention 

 this specimen as differing in this case, saying instead that 

 it is almost quite similar to a specimen, kept in the Berlin 

 museum, I believe that the presence of these ridges is varying, 

 as we must not presume that they exist in all specimens, 

 though the authors have carefully concealed this fact. Another 



