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Ollotis, g. n. No osfcia-pharyngea or membranum tympani ; parotoid 
glands present ; digits free ; cranial derm without ossification. Type, 
O. ccerulescens, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 98, pi. xxiii. fig. 3, Costa Rica. 
Bufo auritus, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 99, pi. xxiii. fig. 4, Costa Rica, and B. 
coccifer, Cope, figured, fig. 5. 
Bufo pictus, sp. n., id. in Yarrow’s Report, 1. c. p. 522, pi. xxv, figs. 4 
& 5, Utah, &c. 
Bufo olivacGus, Blanf. (1874) figured by Blanford, Eastern Persia, ii. 
pi. xxviii. fig. 3. 
Bufo raddii, sp. n., Strauch, in Prejevalsky’s Mongolia, ii. pt. 3, p. 53, 
Chinese province of Ordos and Alashan Desert. 
Notice of Trypheropsis chrysoprasmus, Cope, from Costa Rica, a 
generic form which represents Hylorana, and of an undescribed species 
from Vera Paz ; E. D. Cope, P. Ac. Philad. (n.s.) viii. p. 114, pi. xxiii. 
fig. 12. 
Hemiphractus. On a skeleton of Hemiphr actus ; confirmation of 
Espada’s formation of separate group Hemiphractina. P. Brocchi, C. R. 
Ixxxiii. pp. 664-666. 
Polypedates reticulatus. Notes on the mode of propagation and pro- 
vision for safety of the ova in this and other Ceylonese Tree-frogs ; A. 
Gunther, Ann. N. H. (4) xvii, pp. 376-379. Supplemented by a letter 
from W. Ferguson ; op. cit. xviii. p. 356. 
Ixalus fergusoni and htjpomelas, spp. nn.. A.. Gunther, op. cit. xvii. 
pp. 379 & 380, Ceylon. 
Chiromantis guineensis, Bchhlz. Its egg-deposit figured; W. Peters, 
Z. c. pl. ii. 
JlyperoUus olivaceu.s, p. 120, and /imbriolatus, p. 121, River Ogow4 
W. Aivica., fusciventris and vittiger, p. 122, Liberia, spp. nn., id. 1. c. 
Ilylodes cerascinus, sp. u., E. D. Cope, Z. c. p. 112, pi. xxvi. fig. 4, 
Costa Rica. 
Hylodes martinicensis, Tsch. Further details respecting its develop- 
ment which is compared with Pipa\ W. Peters, Z. c. pp. 709-713, pi. i. 
figs. 1-9. 
Phyllohates hylaifoi'niislkylif-], sp. n., E. D. Cope, Z. c. p. 107, pi. 
xxiii. fig. 8, Costa Rica. 
Lithodytes podiciferus, p. 107, pi. xxiii. fig, 9, muricinus, p. 108, pi. 
xxiii. fig. 11, habenatus and melanostictus, p. 109, pi. xxiii. fig. 10, mega- 
ccphalus., p. 110, pi. xxiii. fig. 11, gulosus, p. 112, Costa Rica, diastema^ 
p. 155, Panama. Id. 1. c. spp. nn. 
Hyla gabbi and uranocliroa., p. 103, fig. 4, pi. xxvii. nigripcs, p. 104, 
pi. xxiii. fig. 7, elccochroa, p. 105, pi. xxvi. fig. 3, spp. .nn., Costa Rica. 
Several sub-species characterized under H. punctariola, Peters. H. striata, 
Peters, = Ii. polytamia, Cope, p. 106. Id. 1. c. 
Chlorophilus {Hyla, Wied.) triseriatus abundant in Colorado, not 
hitherto found so far westward. Yarrow, Z. c. p. 523. 
Dendrobates talmanccc. Cope, described and figured ; Cope, Z. c. p. 102, 
pi. xxiii. fig. 6. 
Notes on various species of Ceylonese Frogs and their Spawn ; (W. 
Ferguson) Ceylon Observer, July 15, 1876. 
