20 Reft. 
REPTILIA AND BATRACHIA. 
Rana esculenta. On cases of polymely; De Betta, Atti 1st. Yenet. (7) 
i. p. 940. 
Rana arvalis , Nilss. Pfliiger & Smith (Arch. ges. Phys. xxxii. p. 525) 
discuss the distinctive characters of this species, which they prove to be 
quite distinct ; and the latter author (Z. c. p. 581, pis. vii. & viii.) has a 
paper in which he shows that the differences in the vomerine dentition 
which have hitherto been relied upon do not hold good. 
Rana pachy derma , sp. n., Cope, P. Ac. Philad. 1883, p. 25, N. Cali- 
fornia. 
Rana forreri and pustulosa , spp. nn., Boulenger, Ann. N. H. (5) xi. 
p. 343, Mexico. 
Rana macularia var. n. javanica , Horst, Notes Leyd. Mus. v. p. 243, 
Java. [Doubtless a species. — Rec.] 
Rhacophorus lateralis , sp. n., Boulenger, Ann. N. H. (5) xii. p. 162, 
Malabar. 
Rappia burtoni , sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 163, Gold Coast. 
Megalixalus tricolor , sp. n., Bottger, Zool. Anz. iv. [1881] p. 650, 
Nossi Be [omitted from Zool. Rec. xviii.]. 
EnGYSTOMATIDjE. 
Hypopachus oxyrrhinus , sp. n., Boulenger, Ann. N. H. (5) xi. p. 344, 
Presidio, W. Mexico. 
Callula front if asciata , sp. n., Horst, Notes Leyd. Mus. v. p. 243, Sala- 
watty, Morotai, & Halmaheira. 
Scaphiophryne spinosa y Steind., = S. marmorata , Blgr. ; Boulenger, 
l.c. p. 17. 
Dyscophid^:. 
Mantipus , g. u., Peters, SB. Ak. Berl. 1883, p. 165; M. hildebrandti , 
sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 166, Madagascar. 
Phrynocara, g. n., id. L c. p. 166 ; P. tuberatum , id. 1. c. p. 167, 
Madagascar. 
Cystignathidj:. 
Pseudis mantidactyla } Cope. Note by Boulenger, Ann. N. H. (5) xi. 
p. 17. 
Pseudis fusca , sp. n., Garman, Science Observer, iv. p. 47, Rio Arassu- 
ahy, Brazil. Probably the adult stage of Batrachichthys of Pizarro. 
By lodes augusti, Duges. fig. 1, and bocourti , Brocchi, fig. 2, figured by 
Brocchi, Miss. Sc. Mex. Bair. pi. xvi. 
Paludicola gracilis , sp. n. (= Gomphobates notatus, Hens., nec Rheinh. 
& Liitk.), Boulenger, l. c. p. 17, Rio Grande do Sul. 
BuPONIDiE. 
Bufo borbonicus , Boie. According to Horst, Notes Leyd. Mus. v. p. 235, 
B. cruentatus ) Schleg., and borbonicus are distinct species; the type 
specimens are described, p. 236. 
