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2. Breviceps verrucosus. 
Breviceps verrucosus, Giinth. Cat. p. 52. 
Breviceps verrucosus, Rapp, Arch. f. Naturg. 1842, p. 289, pl. 6. £.5; 
Smith, Ill. S. Afr., Rept., App. p. 27 ; Steindachn. Novara, Amph. 
p. 38. 
Snout more or less distinct. Entirely covered with distinctly 
porous granular glands. Brown, with or without yellowish spots. 
Perhaps not specifically distinct from the preceding. 
8. Africa. 
a, 0:43 2. S. Africa. 
@ tier. Cape of Good Hope. Sir A. Smith [P. ]. 
d-f. SQ. Kattraria. F. P. M. Weale, Esq. [P.]. 
3. Breviceps mossambicus. 
Breviceps mossambicus, Peters, Arch. f. Naturg. 1855, p. 58. 
Skin quite smooth, or indistinctly glandular on the head and front 
part of the back. Brown or blackish above; a dark oblique streak 
below the eye. 
E. Africa. 
aod. Mossambique. Prof, Peters [P.]. 
6b. Ss. Zambesi River. 
(Sarote River Donda. 
17. RHOMBOPHRYNE. 
Rhombophryne, Boettg. Zool, Anz. 1880, p. 567. 
Pupil ? Tongue large, broad, and very long, entire, free on 
the sides, longitudinally grooved. A non-interrupted series of pala- 
tine teeth. A cutaneous fold across the palate, between the choane. 
Tympanum concealed. Fingers and toes free, the tips not dilated. 
Madagascar. 
The sternal structure is not known. But as Dr. Boettger: has 
described this genus as allied to Breviceps, it is provisionally placed 
here. 
1. Rhombophryne testudo. 
Rhombophryne testudo, Boettg. 1. c, p. 568. 
Habit stout. Head very broad and short; snout very obtuse ; 
. mouth small; eyes small. Skin glandular, the glandules spinulose 
on the snout and on the chin; a fold from the eye to the shoulder. 
Greyish brown above, the glandules and folds lighter; a blackish 
streak on the loreal and temporal regions; hinder side of thighs 
white, distinctly separated from the inferior side by a blackish zone. 
Yellowish brown beneath, indistinctly vermiculated with whitish. 
Nossi Bé. 
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