On Specimens dredged up from the Gulf of Manaar. 361 



to the shoulder ; a circular flat gland below each thigh, on 

 its inner side. Dark brown above, minutely dotted with 

 yellowish. Male without vocal sacs. 



From snout to vent 123 millims. 



Five specimens from Betsileo. 



Though the tips of the fingers and toes are swollen into 

 small but very distinct disks, the affinities of this species are 

 not with those of the genera Hylorana and Polypedates of 

 authors ; it should take its place near to Rana Kuhlii and 

 R. Liebigii. R. guttulata is the only Madagascar form of 

 either Rana, Hylorana, or Polypedates which has the tym- 

 panum hidden. 



XXXVI. — Supplementary Report on Specimens dredged up 



from the Oulf Manaar, together loith others from the Sea in 



the Vicinity of the Basse Rocks and from Bass'' s Straits 



respectively, presented to the Liverpool Free Museum by 



Capt. H. Cawne Warren. By H. J. CARTER, F.R.S. &c. 



[Plate XVIIL] 



After my " Report " on the specimens from the Gulf of 

 Manaar had been published (^Annals,' 1880, vol. v. p. 437), 

 I received for examination, through my friend Mr. Thomas 

 H. Higgin, F.L.S., of Liverpool, a few more specimens 

 dredged up from the Gulf of Manaar, together with some 

 from the sea in the vicinity of the Basse Rocks off the S.E. 

 coast of Ceylon, and from Bass's Straits, between Australia 

 and Tasmania, respectively, forming the remaining portion of 

 the same collection presented to the Liverpool Free Museum 

 by Capt. H. Cawne Warren in 1879 (viz. bearing the register 

 number " 26. 9. 79 ")• 



With reference to the specimens from the Gulf of Manaar, 

 which were obtained opposite Tuticorin, and those from the 

 sea in the vicinity of the Basse Roks (all together very few 

 in number), there is little to be said beyond the fact that they 

 present the same facies and are of the same kind as those 

 already noticed {ojy. et loc. cit.) ; but as they contain a few 

 new species as well as a repetition of others already mentioned, 

 it will only be necessary to describe the former here, and give 

 the rest together in a list at the end of tlie Report. 



Among the new species is a Rotalia which is almost a fac- 

 simile of R. spiculotesta, but with an arenaceous covering, 

 which enables me, in the " Observations," once more to 

 state my reasons for regarding Sguamularia varians and S. 



