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third the length of the second toe. The hind limb being carried 
forwards along the body, the metatarsal tubercle reaches a little 
beyond the tip of the snout. Skin of the upper parts with large, 
rounded, very prominent warts. Greyish brown above, indistinetly 
marbled ; legs transversely barred; throat brown-spotted, with a 
NM -shaped blackish patch in the male. The latter with two much 
developed internal subgular vocal sacs. 
Malabar. 
a-e,f-g. 3, 2,& yg. Malabar. Col. Beddome [ P.]. 
22. Rana tuberculosa. 
Pyxicephalus rugosus, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 479, pl. 33. 
ie 
Vomerine teeth in two oblique groups between the choane. “Head 
short; snout rounded ; interorbital space narrower than the upper 
eyelid; tympanum distinct, two thirds the size of the eye. Fingers 
moderate, first extending slightly beyond second; toes moderate, 
one-third webbed; subarticular tubercles of fingers and toes mode- 
rate ; inner metatursal tubercle compressed, shovel-like, haif as long 
as the second toe; no other metatarsal tubercle. The hind lmb 
being carried forwards along the body, the metatarsal tubercle 
reaches beyond the tip of the snout. Skin of upper surfaces with 
prominent glandular folds and tubercles. Brown above, darker 
marbled ; a light vertical spot on the loreal region, between eye and 
nostril; sometimes a light vertebral stripe. 
W. Africa. 
a-b. &. Pungo Andongo. Mr. Welwitsch [C.]. (Types.) 
Pak W. Africa. Prof. Barboza du Bocage | P.1]. 
23. Rana natalensis. 
Tomopterna natalensis, Gtinth. Cat. p. 129. 
Pyxicephalus natalensis, Smuth, Lil. S. Afr., Rept., App. p. 23; Giinth. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. 1870, p. 401. 
Tomopterna labrosa, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1868, p. 111. 
Pyxicephalus madagascariensis, Grandid. Ann. Se, Nat. ser. 5, t. xv. 
1872, a. 20, p. 9. 
Vomerine teeth in two scarcely oblique groups between the choane. 
Head moderate ; snout moderate ; interorbital space narrower than 
the upper eyelid; tympanum very distinct, two thirds the size of 
the eye. Fingers moderate, first extending a little beyond second ; 
toes moderate, half webbed ; subarticular tubercles of fingers and 
toes moderate ; inner metatarsal tubercle compressed, shovel-shaped, 
half the length of the second toe; no other metatarsal tubercle. The 
