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called them all M. vittiger. In all of these the pattern is quite well defined, but 

 the color is not always black, nor even chocolate; sometimes it is quite a light 

 brown. 



Two Kribi, Cameroons. 



Four Bitye, Cameroons. 



Two Efulen, Cameroons. 



Seven Zima County, Cameroons. 



Two Shari River, Cameroons (7 N. by 16 E.). 



Six Cazamena, Senegal. . 



Two Buddu Coast, Lake Victoria, Uganda. 



Two Entebbe, Uganda. 



The following specimens are all badly preserved. In not a single specimen is 

 it possible to say with certainty what the shape of the pupil was. 



One Duque de Bragance, Angola. 



Five Yala River., K. C. 



Six Nyika Plateau, Nyasaland. 



Two Morogoro, Tanganyika Territory. 



Three Duthumi, Tanganyika Territory. 



In the first two batches the color pattern is well defined and is similar to that 

 of the M. vittiger. Only one of the Morogoro specimens shows any color pattern. 

 The Duthumi specimens lack all trace of color pattern. The Nyasaland frogs 

 are too ill preserved for one to be able to make any deductions from them. 



Subsequently I was loaned the Yala River specimen. It is cer- 

 tainly /wZrotufffltMs of the West African type with distinct and vivid 

 markings. The Morogoro males are just as certainly of the East 

 African type and there is no difficulty in distinguishing them. 



I very much doubt if M. Julvovittatus typica occurs in East Africa 

 east of the great lakes, except in the vicinity of Mount Elgon. 



The East African form which everyone has called julvovittatus 

 hitherto I identify with . 



MEGALIXALUS BRACHYNEMIS Bonlenger 



Megalixalus brachynemis Boulenger, 1896, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, vol. 



17, p. 403, pi. 17, fig. 2. (Chiradzulu, Nyasaland.) 

 Rappia fulvovittata Boettger (not of Cope), 1913, in Voeltzkow, Reise in 



Ostafrika, vol. 3, p. 346. (Zanzibar). — Procter, 1920, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



London, p. 417. (Morogoro and Duthumi, T. T.) 

 Hyperolius Julvovittatus Barbour and Loveridge (not of Cope), 1928, Mem. 



Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 50, p. 224. (Dar es Salaam and localities in the 



Uluguru and Usambara Mtns., T. T.) 



2 (U.S.N.M. 76864-5) Kizerui, Usambara Mtns., T. T. (Loveridge) 

 1926. 



Owing to the short and misleading description (and figure as relat- 

 ing to the webbing of the toes) it seems advisable to redescribe the 

 species. Before doing so specimens were submitted to Mr. H. W. 

 Parker of the British Museum, for favor of comparison with the type; 

 he confirms my identification. Redescribed from an adult female, 

 No. 13336, Museum of Comparative Zoology, from Nyange, Uluguru 

 Mountains, Tanganyika Territory; collected by Arthur Loveridge, 

 October 1, 1926. 



