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Yung, E. Influence de l’eau salee sur le developpement des larves de 
grenouille. C.R. ci. pp. 713 & 714. 
-. Influence du nombre des individus contenus dans un meme vase, 
et de la forme de ce vase, sur le developpement des larves de 
grenouille. T. c. pp. 1018-1020. Also Arch. Sci. nat. (3) xiv. 
pp. 502-522. 
Poisonous secretion of the Frog (Rana esculenta ) ; P. Bert, C.R. Soc. 
Biol. (8) ii. p. 524. 
Ran i dji]. 
Rana. A popular note on the principal distinctive characters of the 
German kinds ; Boettger, Zool. Gart. xxvi. pp. 233-246. R. esculenta : 
notes on the Edible Frog in England, with figures of the typical form 
and the var. lessonce ; Boulenger, P. Z. S. 1884, p.573, pl.lv. : description 
and figure of German specimens of var. ridibunda , Pall. ; id. op. cit. 1885, 
p. 666, pi. xl. : R. esculenta perezi , subsp. n., Seoane, Zool. xliii. p. 171, 
NAY. Spain. E. de Betta has a paper on the European, chiefly Italian, 
species of the group of R. temporaria, proposing to unite the various 
species hitherto distinguished, under the Linnsean name R. temporaria ; 
Atti 1st. Yenet. (6) iv. pp. 45-90 [several notes, refuting the author’s 
conclusion, have been published, but belong to 1886 .—Rec.]. B. Haller 
writes on the blue coloration assumed by male R. temporaria during the 
breeding season, believing this peculiarity to have been hitherto un¬ 
noticed ; Zool. Anz. viii. pp. 611-616: Boettger remarks that this 
has been long known; t. c. p. 670 : Leydig endeavours to give an 
explanation of the phenomenon; t. c. pp. 752-758. R. temporaria 
parvipalmcita , subsp. n., Seoane, Zool. xliii. p. 169, N.W. Spain. R.fusca 
var. n. longipes , F. Muller, Yerh. Ges. Basel, vii. p. 670, Baden. R. 
latastii , Blgr., recorded from Piedmont ; Peracca, Atti Acc. Tor. xx. 
p. 827. R. macrocnemis , sp. n., Boulenger, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 22, pi. iii., 
Brusa, Asia Minor. R. marchei , sp. n., Rochebrune, Bull. Soc. Philom. 
(7) ix. p. 90, Sangourougou, Casamence. R. papua , Less,, described as 
Hyla nobilis, sp. n., De Yis, P. R. Soc. Queensl. i. p. 129 [1884] ; Bou¬ 
lenger, Ann. N. H. (5) xvi. p. 387. 
Hylorana longipes , sp. n., Fischer, Arch. f. Nat. li. p. 47, S.E. Borneo 
[= Rhacophorus maculatus var. quadrilineatus, Wgm.—R ec.]. 
Arthroleptis bivittatus , sp. n., F. Muller, Yerh. Ges. Basel, Vii. p. 671, 
pi. ix. figs, k & l, Tumbo I. [= A. macroclactylus , Blgr.—R ec.]. 
Hyperolius moestus , p. 91, lucani, p. 91, rhizophilus, p. 92, and protchei, 
p. 92, spp. nn., Rochebrune, Bull. Soc. Philom. (7)ix., Landana. 
Ranavus scarabellii, g. & sp. nn. (foss.), Portis, Atti Acc. Tor. xx. 
p. 1174, pi. xiii. fig. 1, Senigalliese, Italy. 
Engystomatid^:. 
Engystoma albopunctatum , p. 240, and mu-elleri , p. 241, spp. nn., 
Boettger, Z. Naturw. lviii., Paraguay. 
Rhombophryne testudo , Bttgr. Yaillant, Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) ix. 
p. 116, describes and figures the pectoral arch of this Batrachian, 
