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and Friedrich- Wilhelmshafen of German New-Guinea (Kaiser Wilhelms- 
land) ; they afford valuable addition to our knowledge of the Herpetology 
of New-Guinea, on which more information it much wanted, the more so 
as the collected specimens include representatives of species new to sience, 
or not yet sufficiently known. One specimen in this collection (Enygrus 
p 348 , E — sei 1 a 1 ő g 1 A 
asper, GTHR.) was obtained by the late SAMUEL FENICHEL!) in New-Guinea. 
BATRACHI A. 
Fam. RANIDAE. 
1. Rana papua, LEss.?) 
A single specimen preserved in formaline from Berlinhafen. Length 
61 mm.?) 
I may observe, that the species has been very well described and 
figured (KoNopPiCcxy) by Dr. STEINDACHNER,!) but the figure of LESSON") is 
very poor, the head and body being represented extremely short and wide, 
the skin unnaturally smooth, with two annular warts above the ends of 
the diapophyses of the sacral vertebre ; neither can the dusky-green colora- 
tion of the upper parts be natural. It must be borne in mind that the spe- 
cimen before me differs in the structure of the mouth in many respect from 
that figured by Dr. STEINDACHNER, viz. the tongue is much broader, with 
more rounded lateral edge, the groups of vomerine teeth are a little wider 
and shorter, long-oval, and separeted from the choanae by a very distinct 
interspace, their front edge on a level with the front edge of the choanae, 
their hinder edge reaching beyond an imaginary line connecting the hinder 
edges of the choanae, and a little more obligue than in Dr. STEINDACHNER "S 
figure. 
Coloration. Head and body dark, limbs lighter reddish brown above; 
loreal region from the end of the snout indistinetly obscured; the dark 
tympanum in the middle of a darker irregular blotch ; this latter prolonged 
along the lower margin of the lateral glandular fold and broken into small 
spots behind ; along the back dark brown small roundish spots running 
in two nearly regular rows ; fore limbs with traces of broken dark cross- 
bars ; hind limbs with strong spots, arranged in cross-bars : hinder side of 
) L. v. MÉHELY cBeitr. z. Herpetol. v. Neu-Guinead, Természetr. Füz. Buda- 
pest, 1895, XVIII. p. 73—79. 
2) The copious Synonymy is given in the Hungarian Text. 
5) From end of snout to vent. 
1) Sitzungsber. Akad. Wien, 1868, p. 532, tab. fig. 1—4. 
5) Voyage cCoguilles, Zool. II, Paris 1830, tab. 7. fig. 1. 
