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be procured by Major Beddome. This gentleman has also found 

 at least six new species not observed by myself. 



I have also obtained at Darjeeling and the Khasi hills at least 

 6 new species. I can only enumerate these here, but will endeavour 

 to give recognizable characters in another paper. 



Rana crassa of my Catalogue has been noticed by Theobald, 

 and is distinct from Rana Kuhlii of Ceylon which it much resembles. 



I have obtained one fine new Rana at Darjeeling, somewhat 

 allied to R. Ziebigii, but distinguished from it by its more fully 

 webbed feet. I call this Rana Sikimensis. 



Beddome has got one new very handsomely marked true frog 

 from Southern India, which he names Rana vittata. He has also 

 procured my Rana flavescens and R. curtipes, both which are 

 Hylorana, and quite recently Hylorana Malabarica, sufficiently dis- 

 tinct from Gr ii n t h e r ' s H temporalis of Ceylon, as indeed that na- 

 turalist suspected, though he had not seen Malabarica. My Hylorana 

 curtipes is a most distinct form from Malabarica, and G ii n t h e r must 

 have had a very hazy idea of Ifalabarica, when he asserted, on see- 

 ing a copy of my drawing of H. curtipes, that it was most probably 

 H. Malabarica, he himself acknowledging that he had never seen 

 that species. 



Beddome has sent another small species of Hylorana which 

 he calls H. bipunctata. 



A species of Hylorana common at Shillong, which, from its colora- 

 tion, I considered at the time to be erythrcea, I find on examination 

 and comparison of specimens to be quite new, and shall from its 

 most curious bird-like voice call it Hylorana pipiens. It has much 

 larger legs than any of the other Indian Hylorana, and is of a 

 much more slender habit altogether, with longer and sharper 

 muzzle and more slender limbs. 



My Polypedates variabilis is the same as P. pleurostictus, Gr ii n t h e r, 

 as he himself suspected. Beddome has obtained one small new 

 species of this genus, and I have got three new ones, one very re- 

 markable one from Sikkim, and two beautiful species from the 

 Khasi hills. A very large green backed one is perhaps the one 

 just mentioned by B 1 y t h in a note as Polyp, smaragdinus from the 

 Naga hills, which name I shall retain for it. The other Khasi 



