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Cape Colony. 



Ccape Colony : Little Namaqualand (Kolbe), types. 



4. HEMISUS. 

 Gilnth. Cat. p. 47 ; Bouleng. Cat. p. 178. 



Two Species. 

 Toes free, without subarticular tubercles ; inner metatarsal 



tubercle small H. guttatum. 



Toes with a rudiment of web, with more or less distinct 

 subarticular tubercles ; inner metatarsal tubercle large, com- 

 pressed H. marmoratum. 



1. Hemisus guttatum. 



Engystoma guttatum, Eapp, Arch. f. Naturg., 1842, p. 290, pi. vi. 



figs. 3 and 4. 

 Hemisus guttatum, Bouleng., I.e. 

 Eastern parts of Cape Colony, Natal, Zululand. 

 Natal coast (Quekett). 



2. Hemisus marbiobatum. 



Engystoma marmoratmn, Peters, Arch. f. Naturg., 1855, p. 58. 

 Hemisus sudanense, Bouleng., I.e. 



Tropical Africa southwards to Angola, Mashonaland, and Beira. 



Family CYSTIGNATHID^. 



A Single Genus in Africar'- 



1. HELEOPHRYNE. 



W. Sclater, Ann. S. Afr. Mus. i., 1895, p. 110; Hewitt, Ann. Transv. 

 Mus., 1909, p. 45. 



Two Species. 



Toes entirely webbed H. purceUi. 



Toes half-webbed H. regis. 



1. Heleophryne pukcelli, W. Sclater, t.c, p. Ill, pi. — , fig. 3. 

 Cape Colon3\ 



Stellenbosch Division (Purcell), ty2:)e. 



2. Heleophryne regis, Hewitt, I.e. 

 Cape Colony (Knysna). 



* An examination of the pectoral arch of the type of Heleophryne enables me to 

 confirm Mr. J. Hewitt's very interesting discovery that this genus belongs to the 

 <3ystignathid8e. 



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