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BatPwVCITIAXS. — The Spanish discoverers in 15G7 remarked that 

 the natives of Isabel worshipped the toad (uicZg page 203), and one of 

 the officers of Surville's expedition in 17G9, described in his journal 

 a remarkable toad from the same island ;^ yet it is only within 

 recent yera-s that any Batrachians have been collected in this region. 

 Before I arrived in the group only two species were known to 

 science, and to this number nw collections, which were made in the 

 islands of Bougainville Straits, have added seven new species, in- 

 cluding a tj'pe of a new famil}^ The following list represents the 

 Batrachian fauna of the Solomon Islands, as far as it is at present 

 known ; 



Banidce. 



Bana buboniformis, n. sp. 

 Bana guppyi, n. sp. 

 Rana opisthodon, n. sp. 

 Bana krefftii. 

 Coi'nufer guppyi, n. sp. 

 Cornufer solomonis, n. sp. 



CeraiohatracliidcE. 



(New family characterised b}'' both jaws being toothed, and by the 



diapophyses of the sacral vertebra not being dilated.) 



Ceratobatrachus guentheri, n. sp. 



Hyl'idce (Tree-frogs.) 



Hj'la macrops, n. sp. 

 Hyla thesaurensis. 



The natives of the islands of Bougainville Straits, where, as I have " 

 just remarked, my batrachian collection was chiefly made, have given 

 frogs the general name of " appa-appa " in imitation of their noise, 

 just as they have named the smaller lizards " Kurru-rupu " for the 

 same reason. Amongst the particular species of frogs, I may refer 

 to the large toad-like Rana hiihoniformis, Avhich I found in Treasury 

 Island, and on the highest peak of the island of Faro. liana [luppi/i, 

 according to Mr. Boulenger's report, attains a larger size than any 



1 " Discoveries of the French in 1768 and 17G9," &c., by SI. Fleurieu : London, 1791; 

 p. 134. 



