ON TAILLESS BATIIACHIANS FROM EAST AFRICA. 411 



23. On a Collection of Tailless Batrachians from East Africa 

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

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



[Received May 19, 1920: Read June 15, 1920.J 

 (Text-ligui-es 1-4.) 



Tills collection, made during tlie war, consists of examples of 

 .33 species, two of wliicli are new, representing tlie families 

 Ranidae, Engystomatidae, and Bnfonid^e*. Mr. Loveridge has 

 presented the types of Rcqrp'ia "platyrlihms and Megalixalus 

 loveridgii to tlie British Museum, together with specimens of the 

 little-known species Artliroleptis stenodactylas Pfeft\, Rapina 

 punticulata Pfefi'., and many others. 



I am greatly indebted to Mr. Boulenger for much kind 

 assistance in the working out of this collection. 



List of Localities. 

 The localities fall into three divisions : — 



1. Britisii East Africa. 

 Nairohi. 



Parklands, Nairobi. 



Besil, al)out 50 miles south of Nairobi. 

 Dou,ya Sahitk, 30 miles from Nairobi. 

 Thika, about 50 miles from Nairobi. 



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

 the Port Florence-Mombasa Railway. 



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

 Escarpment Station on the railway. 



Kenia Forest. 



Tumu Timm, 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. 



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

 Salaam-Tanganyika Railway . 



Kongiva, about 20 miles north of Mpapua. 



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

 railway. 



5' tfc/o, ^ I ^^^^ miles south of Moroo^oro. 

 Duthuim, J ^ 



* Pipidfe should also have been represented, but the large series of Xenopus 

 collected were lost in transit. 



