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Ranid.®. 
G. A. Boulenger, P. Z. S. 1888, pp. 204-206, figs., distinguishes two 
groups among the Ranidce, according to the presence or absence of a 
supplementary phalanx between the ultimate and the (normally) pen- 
ultimate. 
Ranci L. : on the hibernation of R. temporaria and R. esculenta ; 
Maill.es, Bull. Soc. Z. Fr. xiii, p. 231. R. esculenta : L. Camerano, Boll. 
Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. Torino, iii, No. 36, records an anomalous 
tadpole, in which the fore limbs wero fully developed, whilst the 
hind limbs wero still in a rudimentary condition : on a case of 
anomalous fusion of the 8th and 9th vertebrae ; Heller, Zool. Gart. 
xxix, p. 181 : a case of polymely noticed by F. Mazza, Atti Soc. 
Ital. xxxi, p. 144, pi. i. R. esculenta , var. ridibunda , Pall. : notes on 
Transcaspian specimens by Bcettger, Zool. Jahrb. iii, p. 953, and 
Walter, t. c. p. 796: on specimens from Greece and Asia Minor; Bcett- 
ger, SB. Ak. Berlin, 1888, p. 145. On albino larvae of R. temporaria ; 
Fisciier-Sigwaut, Arch. Sci. nnt. (3) xix, pp. 350-352. R. arvalis , Nilas. : 
notes on specimens f rom Bruuswick ; Heller, Zool. Gart. xxix, p. 177, 
fig. R. agilis , Thom., recorded from Hochberg, on the Main, by Leydig, 
Verh. Ges. Wiirzb. (2) xxii, p. 12. R. latastii , Blgr., recorded from 
Bosnia and Greece, by Bcettger, SB. Ak. Berlin, 1888, p. 148. R. mon- 
iezumce , Baird, and halecina , Kalm, described by A. Duges, Nat. Mex. (2) i, 
pp. 136 & 137. R. trivittata, Hallow., = macrodactyla, Gthr., Bcettger, 
26.-28. Ber. Offenb. Ver. p. 96. R. macroscelis , i, p. 345, New Guinea, 
leithii , ii, p. 506, Bombay, and himalayana , ii, p. 507, Darjeeling, n. spp., 
Boulenger, Ann. N. H. (6). 
Micrixalus, n. g., standing in the same relation to liana as the typical 
Ixali to Rhacophorus , for Ixalus opisthorhodus , Gthr., and allies ; id. 
P. Z. S. 1888, p. 205. 
Cornufer johnstoni, n. sp., id. op. cit. 1887, p. 564, Cameroons. 
Rhacophorus cruciger ) Blyth, is distinct from R. maculatus , Gray ; 
H. Nevill, Taprobanian, iii, p. 6. R. opisthodon , p. 105, and albilabris f 
p. 105, pi. vi, fig. 1, n. spp., Boulenger, Ann. N. H. (6) i, Madagascar. 
Ixalus granulatus , n. sp., Bcettger, 26.-28. Ber. Offenb. Ver., p. 57, 
Siam. 
Rappia sordida, n. sp., J. G. Fischer, JB. Hamb. v, p. 10, 
Cameroons. 
Phyllobates, Bibr., is a Ranoid, closely allied to and intermediate 
between Ilylixalus , Espada, and Prostherapis, Cope ; Boulenger, 
P. Z. S. 1888, p. 206. 
Dendrobatuxe. 
Dendrobates : Boulenger, Ann. N.H. (6) i, p. 454, & ii, p. 122, remarks 
that the nursing habits, recently noticed by Cope, were observed long ago 
by Wilder and by Kappler. 
Mantella baroni, n. sp., Boulenger, Ann. N. H. (6) i, p. 106, pi. vi, 
fig. 2, Madagascar. 
