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2. Oxyglossus laBvis. (Plate I. fig. A.) 



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

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

 one tubercle. Brown, darker variegated, Avith or without dorsal • 

 streak ; beneath whitish, throat brown-spotted. 



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

 6. Adult. PhiUppine 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 oblique series. Lower jaw with two bony promi- 

 nences. Eustachian tubes small; tympanum thstinct. Fingers 

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

 Males with an internal subgular vocal sac. South Africa. 



Pyxicephaliis, sp., Tschudi, Batr. p. 83 ; D%im. i^ Bib?: viii. p. 442. 

 Tomoptenia, Bihron, 3Ius. Paris. 



1. Tomopterna adspersa. 



Pyxicephalus adspersus, (Bibr.) Tschudi, Batr. p. 84 ; Dmn. <$• Bibr. 

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



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

 legs as long as body ; skin of the back with longitudinal folds. OHve, 

 very finely white-spotted, with a white vertebral hne. 



a. Very large specimen. Stuffed. Africa. 

 h. Very large specimen. Stuifed. Africa. 



2. Tomopterna delalandii. 



Pyxicephalus delalandii, (Bibr.) Tschudi, I. c. ; Dum, ^- Bibr. p. 445. 

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



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

 as body ; skin of the back with smooth roimded warts. OHve, darker 

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



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



b. Adult. South Africa. 



3. Tomopterna niarmorata, 



PyJLicephalus marmoratus, Peters in Wiegm. Archlv, 1855, p. 56. 



Legs longer than body ; snout obtuse ; tympanum smaU ; brownish 

 green, obscurely marbled with browoi. 

 Boror; Mozambique. 



Eana subsigillata, A. Dumeril in Guerin-Menevilh^s Revue et 

 Mag. cle Zool. 1856, p. 560, appears to belong to this genus. — 

 Hah. Gaboon. 



