478 DR. A. GTJNTHER ON NEW BATRACHIANS. [JuTie 2o, 



6. First Account of Species of Tailless Batrachians added to 

 the Collection of the British Museum. By Dr. A. 

 GiJxNTHER, F.R.S., F.Z.S. 



(Plates XXXVII., XXXVIII., XXXIX., XL.) 



After the arrangement of the collection of Tailless Batrachians 

 had been completed (in 1858), j^articular attention was paid to the 

 acquisition of such species as were desiderata. A considerable 

 number of specimens were received into the collection, illustrative of 

 the development, sex, variation, and geographical distribution of 

 species hitherto incompletely represented in the collection. It is 

 not my object to refer to these specimens in this paper, but I shall 

 confine myself to an enumeration of those which were entirely 

 wanting in the collection, or which, since the time mentioned, have 

 been described as new. 



The number of species contained in the collection at the time of 

 the publication of the 'Catalogue of Batrachia salientia' was 214 ; 

 this is now increased to 313*, the number of typical specimens 

 amounting to 125. 



I. List of species acquired which were previously desiderata. 



Dactylethra muelleri (Ptrs.). Ten examples from various 

 localities. 



Rana fusca (Blyth). Tennasserim. Mr. Theobald. 

 Rana MONTEZUMA (Baird). Mexico. Hr. Doorman. 

 Gomphobates kroyeri (Rnhrdt.). ? C. Darwin, Esq. 



Gomphobates notatus (Rnhrdt. & Liitk.). Lagoa Santa. 

 Copenhagen Museum. 



Pyxicephalus EDULis (Ptrs.). Mozambique. Prof. Peters. 



Cystignathus macroglossus (D. & B.). Montevideo. Pur- 

 chased. 



Crinia verrucosa (Rnhrdt. & Ltk.). Australia. Earl of 

 Derby. 



Crinia fasciata (Steind.). East and West Australia. G. Kreflft, 

 Esq. 



Limnodynastes dumerilii (Ptrs.). Adelaide. G. Kreflft, Esq. 



Tarsopterus trachystomus (Rnhrdt. & Liitk.). Lagoa Santa. 

 Copenhagen Museum. 



LioPELMA hochstetteri (Fitz.). New Zealand. Sir A. Smith. 



* The second richest collection of Tailless Batrachians is in tlie Paris 

 Museum, which contained 187 species in 1865, according to a statement of 

 Prof. Dumeril, Nour. Arch. M\is. d'lJist. Nat. 1865, vol. i. )>. 47. 



