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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Zitona freycinetii described by Keferstein, Wiegm. Arcb, 1868, p. 276 
Litoria mmtaf figured ibid, taf, 6, fig, 16,— Tfie aRtfioi’ unites Litoria >vitb 
Hyla, 
Myla, Dr, Giintber Q, p.) describee four ne\y species, viz, dasynqtuSf 
p. 488, pi. 88. fig, 2, Brazil j JI. rhodoporus, p. 488, pi, 37, fig, 4, Brazil anfi 
Surinam j IT. trianyidmn, p. 489, pi. 38. fig. 4, Brazil; and IZleucotcmiiaf 
p. 489, pi. 40. fig. 4, Rio Grande, Jlyla ruhicundvla (Reinb, & Ltb.) is 
figured p. 489, pi. 40. fig. 8. 
Sylc^. H, schuette.i and Ryld dentata are described as new species from 
New South Wales by Prof. Keferstein, Nachriclit. Ges. Wiss. Getting. 1868, 
pp. 328, 329, ^The same author redescribes and figures these species in Wiegm. 
Arohiv, 1868, p, 279, taf. 8, figs, 27, 28; and p, 284, taf. 7, figs, 20, 21,— Se- 
veral other knewn species are described and figured in tfie same paper, viz. 
II. lesueurii [?], p. 278, taf, 7, figs, 24, 26, taf. 8. fig, 26 ; JI. eitropus, taf. 7, 
figs. 22, 23 ; II. peronii, taf. 8. figs. 30, 81 ; II rubella, taf. 8. fig. 29 ; II. aurea, 
taf, 7. figs. 18, 19. {Chirodryas raniformis, see Zool, Record, iv. p. 148, turns 
out to be the last-named common species !) 
Ilyla marmorata (Baud.). Mr, Cope proposes for the frog described by 
Burmeister under this name the appellation II. senicula. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. 
Philad. 1868, p. Ill, 
Ilylella carnea, sp. n.. Cope, 1 . c. p. Ill, Upper Amazons. 
llamda, A frog in which Mr. Cope believes he has recognized the Mana 
affinis (Ptrs.) is described by him, /. c. p. 117; it is Pohlia of Steindachner. 
The species formerly referred by the author to Banula belong to a distinct 
genus, Trypheropsis. 
Trachycephalus insidsus and tvriyldii (Cope) are believed to be merely 
varieties of T. marmoratus, by Gundlach, Report. Fis.-nat. de Cuba, ii, 
p. 118. 
Thyllomedusa scUroderma, sp. n.. Cope, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. 1868, 
p. 112, Surinam, 
Pithccopus (Cope). Mr. Cope gives a synopsis of four species distin- 
guished by him, one of them, P. tardus, being described by him for the 
first time. L, c, pp. 112-114. 
Hylatlesiina. 
Callida, The Megalophrys guttidata of Blyth proves to belong to this 
^enus. Gunther, 1. c. p. 490, pi, 40. fig. 1. 
Dendrobates typographus figured by Keferstein, Wiegm. Arch. 1868, taf. 9. 
fig. 7. 
BATRACHIA GRADIENTIA. 
I Patiodoii kcssleri, sp. n., Balliou, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1868, i. p. 138, frojn 
Kapal, South-western Siberia. [See Zool. Record, iii, p. 130.] 
Salamandrina persjncillata. Notes by Prof. Lossoiia in Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1868, pp. 264-256. 
(Edipina, g. n., near liairacJtoseps, Keferstein, Nachriclit, Ges. Wiss. Gut- 
ting. 1868, August, p. 331. Body and especially tail long, worm-shaped; 
^ head very small ; tongue circular, peltate; legs far apart, weak ; toes yery 
short, subequal, free, 4 | 6. Palatine teeth in an arched line on each side of 
