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Show 1906.] OF THE GENUS NECTOPHRYNE. 59 somewhat the descriptions of the authors. I was able to identify as one species two that had previously been considered different. I add to these observations the description of a new species from German East Africa, the type of which is preserved in the Basle Museum, and conclude this paper with a key for the determination of all the known species of the genus. I am happy on this occasion to express my best thanks to Dr. Mocquarcl, of Paris, who was so kind as to allow me to examine the types of the species described by him. I am also much obliged to Prof. Boettger, of Frankfort a/M., and to Prof. Tornier, of Berlin. The former has been kind enough to send to me the type of his N. exigua which is preserved in the Senckenberg Museum; to the latter I am indebted for the loan of the types of two species in the Berlin Museum. I am particularly indebted to Mr. G. A. Boulenger, who has obligingly placed at my disposal the valuable collection in the British Museum (Natural History), and has been so kind as to verify the work done in his laboratory. 1. NECTOPHRYNE AFRA B. & P. Buchh. & Peters, Mon. Berl. Akad. 1875, p. 202, pi. ii. f. 5. Boulenger, Cat. of Batrach. Sal. p. 279. Examined : The type specimen (Berlin Museum) : Cameroon. 6 specimens (Brit. Mus.): Efulen, S. Cameroon, and Rio Benito. This species occupies quite a special place as regards its webbed fingers, the subarticular tubercles of which imitate small lamellae. 2. NECTOPHRYNE MISERA Mocq. Mocquard, Le Naturaliste, 1890, no. 82, p. 182; Nouv. Arch. Museum Paris, ser. 3, torn. ii. p. 161, pi. xi. f. 7. Examined in Paris Museum : Type specimen, N. Borneo. In Brit. Mus.: 10 specimens from Paka-Paka, 10,000 feet, Kina-Balu, N. Borneo. This species has also strongly webbed fingers, but no sub-articular tubercles. Sometimes the tibio-tarsal articulation does not quite reach the tympanum. 3. NECTOPHRYNE HOSII Blgr. (Plate II. fig. 1.) Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1892, p. 508, pi. xxx. fig. 2. Examined in Brit. Mus.:- Type specimen ( d). Mt. Dulit, N. Borneo. 2 specimens (6 2)- Kuala Lumpur, Selangor. 2 d . La was, Brunei. 1 o* . Head-waters of Sarawak B. 1 cT, 2 $ . Sarawak. 1 2 • Tandjong, S.E. Borneo. 1 2 . Akar River, Sarawak. |