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Show 478 DR. A. GUNTHER ON NEW BATRACHIANS. [June 2.1, 6. First Account of Species of Tailless Batrachians added to the Collection of the British Museum. By Dr. A. G U N T H E R , F.R.S., F.Z.S. (Plates XXXVII., XXXVIII., XXXIX., XL.) AFTER the arrangement of the collection of Tailless Batrachians had been completed (in 1858), particular attention was paid to the acquisition of such species as were desiderata. A considerable number of specimens were received into the collection, illustrative of the development, sex, variation, and geographical distribution of species hitherto incompletely represented in the collection. It is not my object to refer to these specimens in this paper, but I shall confine myself to an enumeration of those which were entirely wanting in the collection, or which, since the time mentioned, have been described as new. The number of species contained in the collection at the time of the publication of the 'Catalogue of Batrachia salientia' was 214 ; this is now increased to 313*, the number of typical specimens amounting to 125. I. List of species acquired which were previously desiderata. DACTYLETHRA MUELLERI (Ptrs.). Ten examples from various localities. R A N A FUSCA (Blyth). Tennasserim. Mr. Theobald. R A N A M O N T E Z U M J ; (Baird). Mexico. Hr. Doorman. GOMPHOBATES KROYERI (Rnhrdt.). ? C. Darwin, Esq. GOMPHOBATES NOTATUS (Rnhrdt. & Liitk.). Lagoa Santa. Copenhagen Museum. PYXICEPHALUS EDULIS (Ptrs.). Mozambique. Prof. Peters. CYSTIGNATHUS MACROGLOSSUS (D. & B.). Montevideo. Purchased. CRINIA VERRUCOSA (Rnhrdt. & Ltk.). Australia. Earl of Derby. CRINIA FASCIATA (Steind.). East and West Australia. G. Krefft, Esq. LIMNODYNASTES DUMERILII (Ptrs.). Adelaide. G. Krefft, Esq. TARSOPTERUS TRACHYSTOMUS (Rnhrdt. & Liitk.). Lagoa Santa. Copenhagen Museum. LIOPELMA HOCHSTETTERI (Fitz.). New Zealand. Sir A. Smith. * The second richest collection of Tailless Batrachians is in the Paris Museum, which contained 187 species in 1865, according to a statement of Prof. Dumeril, Nouv. Arch. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. 1865, vol. i. p. 47. |