Dr. A. Giinther on Australian Batrachia. 311 



Besides these species, I have very little doubt that the Phoca cas- 

 pica of Nilsson, from the Caspian Sea, the Leo marinus of Steller, 

 from Behring's Straits, and Pagonys nummularis, from Japan, are 

 distinct. I am not aware that the Leo marinua of Steller exists in 

 any museum ; the specimen we received from the St. Petersburg 

 Academy under that name is the Callorhinus ursinus of the 'Pro- 

 ceedings of the Zoological Society ' for 1859. 



Notice of a New Species of Goliathus. By G. R, Gray. 



Dr. Kirk has, on his return from the Zambesi, added to our 

 knowledge a species of the genus Goliathus, which he obtained as 

 long ago as November 1858, when he picked it up among the hills 

 of Kcbrabassa, which is situated about forty miles beyond the Por- 

 tuguese town of Tete. As it appears to be new, I have ventured to 

 lay a description of it before the Society under the name of Golia~ 

 thus Kirkianus. 



6 . Castaneous black, with the upper part of head, the seven nar- 

 row longitudinal lines on the thorax, the base, and outer edges of 

 the elytra broadly margined, also with a series of narrow irregular 

 transverse lines on their centres of a pearly white. The bifurcated 

 horn in front of the head, all beneath the body, and legs deep casta- 

 neous ; the four hind legs fringed inwardly with pale rufous hairs. 

 Scutellum of a lonir-triangular form, castaneous black, with a short 

 narrow longitudinal line in the centre of a pearly white. 



Of the known species it approaches most nearly to the Goliathus 

 Fomassinii, from which, however, it differs in the form of the head 

 and thorax : the former is longer, with the bifurcated horn in front 

 shorter, while each fork of it is broader, with the apex of each 

 broadly truncated ; the latter is less rounded, with the sides suban- 

 gulated in the centre, thus differing from the figure of the head of 

 the male given in the 'Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de Fr.' iv. pi. 7. f. la. 



Feb. 9, 1864.— John Gould, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair. 



Third Contribution to our Knowledge of Batrachians 

 FROM Australia, By Dr. A. Gunther. 



The following is a continuation of two other papers treating on the 

 same subject ; they were published in the * Annals and Magazine of 

 Natural History,' 1863, p. '2(i, and in the 'Proceedings' of this 

 Society, 1863, p. 2-19. 



MixoPHYES (g. n. Ranidakum). 



Habitus as in Rana, the head being broad and large ; legs of mo- 

 derate length. Tongue circular, not notched behind ; vomerine 

 teeth in two series ; lower jaw without tooth-like apophyses. Open- 

 ings of the Eustachian tubes narrower than the choause ; tympanum 

 distinct. Fingers free, none opposite to the others ; interdigital 

 membrane between the toes well developed ; fifth toe moveable to 

 its base ; a long, compressed, subscmicircular tubercle at the meta- 



