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ARCIFERA, 
Bufo vulgaris, Laur. “The Common Toad. " 
Hyla rubra, Daud. Introduced in a Wardian case from Dominica, 
July, 1898. 
Hylodes martinicensis, Tschudi. The following account of this 
species was published in “ Nature,” October 31st, 1895, p. 643 :— 
“A short time ago Mr. W. Watson, the Assistant Curator of 
Kew Gardens, informed me that he had noticed for several years, 
in some of the hot-houses, specimens of a sma frog, which, 
the spe 
s ago I had ‘the pleasure of receiving three specimens in 
pa condition. 
* The D is Ap ylodes Lene Arse a small arboreal species, 
distributed and s on in many West Indian Islands 
(Martinique, Porto Ric , St. Vincent, Do ominica, Barbados, &c., 
it fest ee n years ago, that he lost sight of it for some time, 
but that it denies about four or five years ago. Taking is 
consideration the few facts with which we are acquainted as t 
the reproduction of this frog, it — a probable that sev e 
specimens of both sexes were, on more than one occasion acci- 
dentally introduced in Wardian aim 
«* However that may be, it is evident that the frogs have freely 
propagated since their introduction. At present they are most 
numerous in the propagating houses, in which the temperature 
ranges between 80 degrees and 100 degrees sinking in winter at 
by the sound, I had soon the Sim sure of seeing one of them 
clinging to the side of a glass cage 
* There is nothing extraordinary in the accidental importation 
of individuals of a tropical species of frog into Europe, but it is 
an interesting experience that the Ape should have permanently 
established itself. This is owing, in the first place, to the favour- 
able conditions under which it found itself placed, and, secondly, 
to the peculiar mode of its propagation 
* Hylodes MEN and probably the majority of its 
congeners, does not spawn in water, but deposits aipa = to 30 
ova on leaves in cdita places. After a fortnight the y 
are hatched in a perfect form, having passed t thro edic: the meta- 
morphosis within the egg, thus escaping the vicissitudes an 
danger to which they woah have been exposed du um the 
