242 Mr. O. Thomas on the 



Rana papua, part., Bouleng. Cat. Batr. Ecaud. p. 64 (1882) ; Rous, 



Abb. Senck. Ges. xxxiii. 1910, p. 224. 

 Rana arfaki, part,, vau Karapeu, Bijdr. Dierk. xix. 1913, p. 90. 

 Ranafallax, van Kanipen, Nuva Guinea, ix., Zool. p. 459 (1913). 



Hab. New Guinea and neighbouring islands (Waigeou 

 [type], Aru, Kei, Timor Laut, Fergusson, Murray, &c). 



I am unable to express an opinion on the specimens from 

 Jobi, referred to this species by Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool. xliv. 1912, p. 65, pi. v. fig. 15, in which the male is 

 provided with a humeral gland. 



9. Rana daemcli. 



Hylorana erythrcea, part., Giintb. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) xx. 1867, 



p. 56. 

 Hylorana daemeli, Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, lvii, i. 1868, p. 532, pi. — . 

 Hylorana ncbulosa, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. ii. 1877, p. 137. 

 Rana papua, part., Bouleng. Cat. Batr. Ecaud. p. 64 (1882), and Ann. 



& Mag. Nat. Hist.. (5) xvi. 1885, p. 387 ; Roux, Abb. Senck. Ges. 



xsxiii. 1910, p. 224. 

 Hyla nobilb, De Yis, Proc. P. Soc. Queensl. i. 1884, p. 129. 

 Rana daemeli, Garnian, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. xxxix. 1901, p. 14 ; 



Bouleng. Tr. Zool. Soc. xx. 191 4 ; p. 250. 

 Rana nova-c/uinea, van Kanipen, Nova Guinea, ix., Zool. p. 37, pi. ii. 



fig. 5 (1909), and p. 459 (1913). 



Hab. Northern Queensland (type) and New Guinea. 



XXVII. — Some Notes on the small Sand-Foxes of North 

 Africa. By Olufield Thomas. 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



While attempting to determine a small fox from Nigeria 

 presented some years ago to the National Museum by Mr. (now 

 Sir John) Eaglesome, I have come upon certain points in the 

 nomenclature and relationships of what Mr. de Winton * has 

 called the "sand-foxes" which it seems advisable to record 

 for the saving o£ future trouble. 



The species dealt with are three in number — namely, the 

 widely distributed animal usually known as Vulpes famelica, 

 the smaller Y. pallida of the Egyptian Soudan, and the true 

 Fennec. 



* P. Z. S. 1899, p. 544. 



