ON TAILLESS BATRACHIANS FHOM EAST AFRICA. 411 



23. On a Collection of Tailless Batrachians from East Africa 

 made by Mr. A. Loveiidge in the years 1914-1919. 

 By Miss Joan B. Pkocter, F.Z.S. 



[Received May 19, 1920: Eead June 15, 1920.] 

 (Text-figures 1-4.) 



Tliis collection, made during the war, consists of examples of 

 33 species, two of which are new, representing the families 

 RanidsB, Engystomatidse, and Bufonidse*. Mr. Loveridge has 

 presented the types of Uaiypia platyrhinus and Megalixalus 

 loveridgii to the British Museum, together with specimens of the 

 little-known species Arthroleptis stenodactylas PfefF., Rappia 

 pimticulata Pfeff., and many othei-s. 



I am greatly indebted to Mr. Boulenger for much kind 

 assistance in the woi-king out of this collection. 



List of Localities. 

 The localities fall into three divisions : — 



1. British East Africa. 



Nah'ohi. 



Parklands, Nairobi. 



Besil, about 50 miles sovith of Nairobi. 



Donya Sahuk^ 30 miles from Nairobi. 



Thika, about 50 miles from Nairobi. 



luKjiado, about 100 miles due west of Makindu, which is on 

 the Port Florence -Mombasa Railway. 



Kedong Valley, about 100 niiles from Nairobi, and south of 

 Escarpment Station on the railway. 



Kenia Forest. 



Tumu Tumu, on the road from Thika to Mt. Kenia. 



2. Ex-German East Africa (now Tanganyika Territory). 



Gonya., about 50 miles south of Kilima-Njaro. 



Longido West, about 50 miles west of Kilima-Njaro. 



Amani, 40 miles from Port Zanga. 



Dodoyna, about 110 miles west of Morogoro, on the Dar-es- 

 Salaam-Tanganyika Railway . 



Kongwa, about 20 miles north of Mpapua. 



Morogoro, about 100 miles west of Dar-es-Salaam on the 

 railwa3^ 



r^"',' . \ 50 and 60 miles south of Morogoro. 

 Dutliimu, J ^ 



* Pipidae should also have been represented, but the large series of Xeno'pus 

 collected were lost in transit. 



