BATKACHIA SALIENTIA. 7 



2. Oxyglossus laevis. (Plate I. %. A.) 



Skin smooth, with a few scattered, small, smooth tubercles ; 

 tongue ovoid, roimded, not pointed behind ; metatarsus with only- 

 one tubercle. Brown, darker variegated, with or Avithout doi-sal 

 streak ; beneath whitish, throat brown-spotted. 



a. Adult. Philippine Islands. With yellowish dorsal streak. 

 6. Adult. Philijjpine Islands. Without yellowish dorsal streak. 



3. TOMOPTERNA. 



Head large and thick, muzzle short ; extremities moderate. 

 Tongue large, oval, free, and deeply nicked behind. Vomerine 

 teeth in two obli(]iie series. Lower jaw with two bony promi- 

 nences. Eustacliiau tubes small; tympamun distinct. Fingers 

 free ; toes half- webbed ; a flat sharp-edged spur on the metatarsus. 

 Males with an internal subgular vocal sac. South Africa. 



Pyxiccphalus, sp., Tschndi, Batr. p. 83; Dion. ^- Bibr. \iii. p. 44:^. 

 Toinoptenui, Bibron, 3Ii(S. Paris. 



1. Tomopterna adspersa. 



I'yxicephalus adspersus, (Bibr.) Tscluidi, Butr. p. 84; Duiti. S)- Bibr. 

 p. 444; Smith, III of S. Africa, Rvpt. pi. 49. 



Lower jaw with two large, bony, tooth -like prominences in front ; 

 legs as long as body ; skin of the back vai\\ longitudinal folds. Olive, 

 vei-y finely white-spotted, with a white vertebral hne. 

 a. Very large specimen. Stuffed. Africa. 

 h. Very large specimen. Stuffed. Africa. 



2. Tomopterna delalandii. 



Pyxicephalus delalandii, {Bibr.) Tschudi, I. c. ; Dum. H,- Bibr. p. 445 

 pi. 87. f. 1 ; Smith, I. c. pi. 23. 



Lower jaw with two very weak bony pi-ominences ; legs as long 

 as body ; skin of the back Avith smooth rounded warts. Olive, darker 

 marbled, with one, sometimes wath three white dorsal streaks. 

 a. Adult. South Africa. Presented by A. Smith, M.D. 

 6. Adult. South Africa. 



3. Tomopterna marmorata. 



Pyxicephalus mannoratus, Peters in Wieym. Archir, 1855, p. 56. 



Legs longer than body ; snout obtuse ; tympanum small ; broA^Tiish 

 green, obscurely marbled with brown. 

 Boror ; Mozambique. 



Rana subsigillata, A. Dumeril in Gnenn-Menevilles Revue et 

 Mag. de Zool. 1856, p. 560, appears to belong to tliis genus. — 

 Hab. Gaboon. 



