DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. ]6S 



Batkachia. 



The additions number four hundred and four, three hundred 

 and nineteen of which were obtained by presentation and 

 eighty-five by purchase. The following are worthy of 

 notice : — 



Europe. 



Twenty-six Newts from Brittany ; presented by Prof. F. 

 Ouitel. 



Twenty-two Batrachians from the Charente ; purchased. 



Eleven Batrachians from Montpellier ; presented by Prof. 

 Duboscq. 



Ten Batrachians from Moscow ; presented by Mr. L. A. 

 Lantz. 



Asia. 



Eight Toads from N. E. Persia ; presented by Capt. H. H. 

 Thoburn. 



Fifteen Frogs from S, Waziristan ; presented by Major G. 

 E. Bruce. 



Three Batrachians from China ; presented by the Shanghai 

 Museum. 



Africa. 



Ten Toads from the Trarza Province, Mauritania, collected 

 by M. Audan ; purchased. 



Thirty-one Batrachians from South Cameroon, collected by 

 Mr. G. L. Bates, including the type of a new Toad (Nectophryne 

 batesii) ; purchased. 



Ten Batrachians from British East Africa, collected by 

 Mr. Willoughby P. Lowe ; presented by Gordon P. Cosens, Esq, 



Ten Frogs from Lake Matanda, Uganda ; presented by 

 Major Jack. 



T he co-type of a new Frog, Heleophryne regis, discovered 

 at Knysna, Cape Colony, by Mr. J. A. Rex ; presented by 

 J. Hewitt, Esq. 



America, South. 



Thirty-one Batrachians from various parts of South America, 

 among them a Frog (Paludicola henseli) new to the collection ; 

 presented by the Doria Museum, Genoa. 



A rare Caecilian (Typhlonectes coTnpressicauda) from 

 Manaos, Brazil ; presented by J. Paul Arnold, Esq. 



The co-type of a new Frog {Telmatobius luseni) from 

 Parana, Brazil ; presented by Prof. E. Lonnberg. 



Sixty-eight Batrachians from the Choco, Colombia, includ- 

 ing the types of five new species {Dendrobates aurotcenia, 



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