124 PROCEEDmCS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM tol. 91 



Midbody scale rows 36; ventrals 128-130; anal entire; subcaudals 

 26-28; labials 14. Both specimens are young. 



BITIS NASICGRNIS (Shaw) 



1802. Coluber Nasicornis Shaw, Nat. Misc., vol. 3, pi. 94 (interior of Africa) 

 (from the master of a Guinea vessel). 



4 S $, 4 9 9 (U.S.N.M. Nos. 109018, 10967G-82), Gibi 

 S (U.S.N.M. No. 109308), Bromley 



Midbody scale rows 30-38; ventrals 121-129; anal entire; sub- 

 caudals 15-26; labials 1^17. Largest $ (U.S.N.M. No. 109678) 

 measures 651 (570+81) mm.; largest 9 (U.S.N.M. No. 109680) 

 measures 955 (870+85) mm. 



FROGS AND TOADS 



XENOPUS TROPICALIS (Gray) 



1864. Silurana tropicalis Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, vol. 14, p. 316 

 (Lagos, Nigeria). 



3 (U.S.N.M. Nos. 109571-3), Bendaja 



These frogs have the vestigial lower eyelid and, though less well 

 defined on account of their dry condition, snout and chin beset by 

 pustules characterizing the species as redefined by Parker (1936a, 

 p. 157). 



BUFO REGULARIS MACULATUS Hallowell 



1850. Bufo cinereus Haixowkix (not Schneider), Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadel- 

 phia, 1850, p. 169 (Liberia). 



1854. Bufo maculatus Hallowell, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1854, p. 101 

 (new name for cinereus, preoccupied). 



5 9 9 (U.S.N.M. Nos. 109286-90), Bellyella 

 1 yng. (U.S.N.M. No. 109305), Bromley 



6 yng. (U.S.N.M. Nos. 109554-6, 109666-8), Bendaja 

 8 5 5,1 9 (U.S.N.M. Nos. 109622-30), Harbel 



1 yng. lU.S.NM. No. 11314), Reputa 



The series maintains the small size of this western form, the very 

 largest S $ (U.S.N.M. No. 109623, etc.) measuring 53 mm., the largest 

 gravid 9 (U.S.N.M. No. 109286) measuring 67 mm., the youngest 

 toad (U.S.N.M. No. 109556) 15 mm. One of these toads was recovered 

 from the stomach of a water snake {Natrix a. anoscopios) . 



BUFO CAMERUNENSIS CAMERUNENSIS Parker 



1936. Bufo camerunensis canwrunensis Parker, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1936, 

 p. 153 (Oban, Calabar, Nigeria). 



9 (U.S.N.M. No. 109285), Bellyella 



