640 Mr. G. A. Boulciifrer on 



LXX. — On the Habitat 0/ Rana Blanfordii. 

 By G. A. BOULENGER, F.R.S. 



In the ' Catalogue of Tailless Batracliians in the British 

 Museum/ published in 1882, I described and figured a new- 

 frog under the name of Rana Blanfordii, from two specimens 

 presented by the late Dr. Blanford in 1880 along with a 

 collection of reptiles and batracliians, partly from Darjeeling, 

 partly from Muscat, partly from other localities. The 

 specimens were in a bottle with a Bufo Andersonii, Blgr., 

 a toad which has since been rediscovered at Muscat ; and 

 Dr. Blanford himself informed me that all three specimens 

 probably came from Muscat, although he was not abso- 

 lutely certain of the locality. A query was therefore 

 inserted after the indication of the habitat, which follows 

 the description. I am now convinced that the two frogs 

 came from Darjeeling, having received a third specimen of 

 the same species from Capt. F. Wall, C.M.Z.S., who 

 obtained it in the Himalayas, at Mussoorie, at an altitude 

 of 7000 to 8000 feet. As I pointed out a short time ago in 

 these 'Annals^ (xv. 1905, p. 378), ^. 5Zar?/or6?a is closely 

 allied to R. Pleshei, Gthr., from Tibet, but it has longer hind 

 limbs and the toes are dilated into small disks at the extre- 

 mity. R. vicina, Stol. (1872), of which a description and 

 figure have been given by Mr. W. L. Sclater in 1892 (P. Z. S. 

 p. 342, pi. xxiv. fig. 1), is still more closely related to 

 R. Blanfordii, and 1 should have felt inclined to unite the 

 two except for the statement that the toes of R. vicina are 

 " webbed to the extreme tips." 



LXXI. — On a small Collection of Fishes from the Kasai River 

 {Congo). By G. A. BouLENGER, F.R.S. 



In concluding my Address to the Zoological Section of the 

 British Association at Cape Town in August last, I men- 

 tioned the fishes of the southern tributaries of the Congo 

 River as among the most important desiderata in our know- 

 ledge of the freshwater fish-fauna of Africa. I was therefore 

 delighted to hear, on my return home, that Dr. J. L. Todd 

 and the regretted Dr. J. E. Dutton had collected some fishes 

 for the Congo State Museum, among which was a series 

 from Lusambo, on the Kasai River. These specimens are 



