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ground colour of the upper part is obscured by brown and 

 mustard-coloured vermiculations ; the yellow appearing in the 

 form of dots. Six pretty regular longitudinal series of large, 

 deep black blotches, like ink-spots, extend along the body : 

 two series between the glandular folds, and two on each side. 

 The glandular folds are yellow, with a few brown dots, and 

 edged on the outer side with brown and with a series of more 

 or less confluent black spots ; the temporal spot dark brown, 

 edged below with yellow. Hind limbs with black spots ; the 

 dark cross-bars traceable, though interrupted and irregular. 

 The throat, belly, and lower surface of thighs are clouded with 

 very pale brownish. 



The other female is more remarkable : both for its very 

 warty skin, which gives it a quite toad-like appearance, and 

 for its coloration. The ink -black spots noticed in the 

 preceding specimen invade the upper parts in such a 

 manner as to cover them, including the glandular lateral folds 

 and the streak below the temporal spot ; the yellow appearing 

 merely here and there in the form of dots or fine vermicula- 

 tions. The exposed upper surface of the limbs show accord- 

 ingly no trace of cross-bands. On the sides the black is 

 abruptly limited by the bright yellow of the lower parts. The 

 belly is devoid of spots ; but the throat is a little obscured by 

 brownish mottlings. 



The male is olive brown, more yellowish on the vertebral 

 area, with a few large, irregular, deep black blotches. X<> 

 cross-bands on the limbs, but small, deep black spots, which 

 are rather crowded on the tibia. Temporal spot not much 

 darker than the ground colour. The throat is pale lilac or 

 pearl grey, as normal in males in summer, and the belly of 

 a very pale yellow marbled all over with grew 



A black and yellow male specimen, somewhat similar to 

 the smaller female noticed above, was found in May 1892 at 

 Kinlochewc, Ross-shire, by my colleague Mr. Ogilvie-Grant. 

 and presented by him to the British Museum. Among some 

 specimens obtained by the same gentleman in June last at 

 Glen Avon, Banffshire, one is interesting in showing a pale, 

 black-edged vertebral stripe as distinct as in the striated 

 variety of Ranaarvalis: it is a female, measuring ~? mm. 

 from snout to vent. 



