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Show 640 MR. G. A. BOULENGER ON ADDITIONS TO THE [Nov. 6, hyomandibular has resulted from the loss of a suspensorial It is unfortunate that the remains of extinct Dipnoi do not furnish any clue to the solution of this problem ; but it is highly probable that the Dipnoi are derived from a stock in which the hyomandibular was as free from this suspensorial function as in the modern representatives of the group. REFERENCES. 1. BISCHOFF, Ann. Sc Nat. 1840, xiii. pp. 123 and 126. 2. BRUHL, Zool. aller Thierklassen. Wien, 1880. 3. GADOW, Phil. Trans. 1888. 4. GUNTHER, Phil. Trans. 1871. 5. HUXLEY, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876. 6. HYRTL, Lepidosiren paradoxa. Prag, 1845, p. 12. 7. OWEN, Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 1839, p. 337. 8. OWEN, Anat. of Vert. vol. i. 1866, p. 83 and fig. 41. 9. PARKER, Monograph on Shoulder-girdle, Ray Soc. 1866. 10. POLLARD, Anat. Anzeiger, Bd. x. no. 1, 1894. 11. TELLER, Abh. d. k.-k. geol. Reich. Wien, Bd. xv. Heft 3. 12. v. W U H E , Niederl. Archiv f. Zool. v. Heft 3, 1882, p. 295. 3. Third Report on Additions to the Batrachian Collection in the Natural-History Museum.1 By G. A. BOULENGER, F.R.S. [Eeceived October 12, 1894.] (Plates XXXIX. & XL.) I. List of the Species, new or previously unrepresented, specimens of which have been added to the Collection since April 1890. (An asterisk indicates type specimens.) ECAUDATA. 1. Eana limborgii, Sclater f., P. Z. S. 1892, p. 344.-Karin hills (Fea). *2. Eana palavanensis, Blgr. Ann. N. H. (6) xiv. 1894, p. 85.-Palawan (Everett). *3. Rana holsti, Blgr. Ann. N. H. (6) x. 1892, p. 302.-Great Loo Choo Islands (Hoist). 4. Rana boylii, Baird.-Marin Co., California (Eigenmann). *5. Rana grceca, Blgr. Ann. N. H. (6) viii. 1891, p. 346.- Parnassos (Kruper); N. Morea (Douglass). 6. Rana chrysoprasina, Cope.-Costa Rica (Underwood). 1 Cf. P.Z.S. 1890, p. 323. |