236 A NEW CYSTIGNATHOID FROG FROM X S.W. 



Sometimes both the fingers and toes have apparently swollen 

 tips ; these, however, as it seems to me, are merely callosities clue 

 to wear and tear perhaps in burrowing in hard ground in a dry 

 season. 



It is remarkable that this tiue species has been so long over- 

 looked : it seems to he rare, as I have never met with similar 

 spawn before ; it is evidently shy and of very retiring habits, and 

 where I got my specimen there was so much cover that tlie chance 

 of finding specimens except by accident seemed hopeless ; added 

 to which I know of no describable croak that I can in any way 

 connect with the frog. Nevertheless, as Mr. Woolrych noticed 

 and reported, when the Dural specimen had his back stroked he 

 would usually lift up his voice in a very ludicrous and surprising 

 manner. 



