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Leuckart, Bischof, and others, of the partial development of eggs of frogs 
which have not been impregnated. C. R. Ixxxi. pp. 409-411. 
Schnetzler has recorded observations, showing that the development 
of tadpoles is much slower, if deprived of light. Bull. Soc. Vaud. xiii. 
p. 273. 
Batrachia Salibntia. 
Pelobates fuscus. Notes by Crivelli ; Rend. 1st. Lomb. vi. p. 172. 
Xenopus {Dactylethra) calcaratus^ sp. n. (= that erroneously referred 
by Dumdril to D. muelleri^ in Rept. de I’Afr. occid. pi. xviii. fig. 6), 
W. Peters, MB. Ak. Berl. 1875, p. 200, Camaroons. 
Rana arvalis^ Nilss. Anatomical observations by O. M. Reuter, Not. 
Fenu. (n.s.) xi. pp. 321-325. 
Rana crassipes, R. Buchholz & W. Peters, MB. Ak. Berl. 1875, p. 201, 
Abo; R. verrucosa and pygmcea, A. Gunther, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 657, 
Malabar : spp. nn. 
Xenophrys gigas, Jerd., juv., = X. monticola, Gthr. ; id. 1. c. p. 568. 
Asterrophrys melanopyga, sp.n., G. Doria, Ann. Mus. Genov, vi. p. 555, 
pi. xii. h, Wokan (Aru Islands). 
Trachycephalus, g. n. [Tsch., Reptilia, 1838; Swains., Pisces^ 1839],- 
closely resembling Xenophrys, for T. ceylanicus, sp. n., Ferguson, Ann. 
N. H. (4) XV. p. 128, Ceylon : = Nannophrys ceylonensis, Gthr. ; A. 
Gunther, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 568. Some remarks on other Ceylonese frogs 
are added in Ferguson’s paper, 1. c. 
Arthroleptis dispar, Peters, figured and noticed ; W. Peters, MB. Ak. 
Berl. 1875, p. 210, pi. iii, figs. 1-3. The author questions the validity of 
the separation of Phrynohatrachus from Arthroleptis^ which rests solely 
on the absence of the terminal expansions of the toes in the former. 
Alytes obstetricans, Wagl. L. Perez Areas corrects Bottger’s mention 
of this species as new to Spain, it having been included by Machado in 
his catalogue in 1859 ; An. Soc. Esp. i. p. 93. [See Gongylus ocellatus.'] 
Nectophryne, g. n. Habit of Atelopus. Tongue, sternal apparatus, 
and sacral processes as in Bufo. No teeth, tympanum, acoustic tubes, ' 
tympanic pit or parotoids. Toes and fingers short, broadly webbed to 
their tips. Differs from A in the sternal apparatus, the epicora* 
coid cartilage being inferior in that genus. N. afra, sp. n., Camaroons. 
R. Buchholz & W. Peters, MB. Ak. Berl. 1875, p. 202, pi. ii. fig. 5. 
Ansonia ornata, sp. n., A. Gunther, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 568, pi. Ixiii. fig. a, 
Brumagherries. 
Bufo beddomii and hololius, spp. nn., id. 1. c. p. 569, the latter figured, 
pi. xliv. fig. a, Malabar. 
Ixalus. Notes on /. mr^a6^7^5, Gthr., and glandulosus, Jerd., p. 573, 
and descriptions of I. montanus, pi. Ixvi. fig. a, Kudra Mukh, diplo- 
stictus, pi. Ixiii. fig. c, Malabar, chalazodes, pi. Ixvi. fig. b, Travancore, 
p. 574, jerdoni, ? Darjeeling, beddomii, Malabar, stictomerus, pi. Ixvi. 
fig. c, Ceylon, p. 575 : spp. nn. ; id. 1. c. 
Polypedates chloronotus, p. 569, pi. xv. fig. a, Darjeeling, P, formosus, 
p. 573, pi. XV. fig.b, Khassya, P. yer Darjeeling, P. beddomii, pi. Ixiii. 
