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such lateral gill openings as have been found in Epicrium glutinosum^ but 
a kind of external gills, resembling the campanuliform external gills of 
the larva of Notodelphys ovifera ; that allantois and amnios are absent ; 
and that for a portion of the year, water, and not mud, is the medium 
inhabited ; id tom. cit. pp. 46-49. 
Siphonops hreviroHris^ sp. n., id. tom. cit. p. 617, pi. i. fig. 2, Guinea. 
BATRACHIA. 
Hoffmann, C. K. Bronn’s Klassen und Ordnungen des Thier-Reichs. 
vi. Abth. 2. Leipzig & Heidelberg [in progress]. 
Nos. 1 to 7 of the present section of this work, pp. 1-240, pis. i.-xvii. ^ 
are occupied with the anatomy of the Amphibia in detail. 
Rouget, C. Observations sur le d(^veloppement des nerfs p^riph^riques 
chez les larves des Batraciens et des Salamandres. 0. R. Ixxix. 
pp. 306-309, 448-452. 
Batrachia Saltentfa. 
E. Cornalia publishes further observations on Pelobates fuscus and 
Rana agilis in Atti Soc. Ital. xvi. pp. 96-106, pis. ii. & iii. Cf. also 
Moquin-Tandon, on the earlier phases of development of the former : 
C. R. Ixxix. p. 132. 
Rana esculenta, L,, re-described from Morocco, Bottger, 1. c. p. 165. 
On the influence of light upon the development of the larvte of frogs ; 
J. B. Schnetzler, Bull. Soc. Vaud. (2) xiii. pp. 273-275. 
Rana arfaki^ sp. n., Meyer, 1. c. p. 138, New Guinea. 
Ranula brevipalmata and R. nigrilatus^ spp. nn.. Cope, P. Ac. Philad. 
1874, p. 131, Nauta. 
Bubonias, g. n. Fronto-parietals fully ossified, nasals separated. Xi- 
phisternum an osseous style with disk. Auditory organs well developed. 
A large inguinal gland ; no tarsal shovels or spurs. Maxillary, but no 
vomerine teeth. B. plicifrons, sp. n,, id. tom. cit. p. 124, Nauta. 
Cyclorhamplms ccmaricus, sp. n., id. tom. cit. p. 125, Lake Titicaca. 
Plectomantes rhodostima, sp. n., id. tom. cit. p. 127, Nauta. 
Gnathophysa rubido^ sp. n., id. tom. cit. p. 128, Moyabamba. 
Atelopus seminiferus, sp. n., id. tom. cit. p. 130, Peru. 
Bufo olivaceuSy sp. n., Blanford, Ann. N. H. (4) xiv. p. 35, Gedrosia. 
Limnodytes papuensis^ sp. n., Meyer, 1. c. p. 138, Now Guinea, Jobi. 
Rhacophorus madagascariensis, sp. n., Peters, 1. c. p. 618, pi. i. fig. 3, 
Madagascar. 
Jlyperolius nigripunctatuSy and II. pygmccus, spp. nn., Meyer, 1. c. 
p. 139, Jobi. 
Polypedates crossleyi, sp. n., Peters, MB. Ak. Berl. 1874, p. 618, Mada- 
gascar. 
Hylodes sulcatus, sp. n.. Cope, P. Ac. Philad. 1874, p. 126, Nauta. 
Litoria obtusirostris, sp. n., Meyer, 1. c. p. 139, Jobi. 
Hyla parvidensy Port Philip, and H. calliscelisy Adelaide, Peters, 1. c. 
p. 620 : spp. nn. 
