20 REPTILES. 



a. Adult. Cape of Good Hope. From M. Parzudaki's Collection. 

 h. Adult. South Africa. Presented by Dr. A. Smith. 

 c. Half-grown. South Africa. Presented by Charles Darwin, Esq. 

 d-f. Adult : bad state. Africa. Presented by Dr. Stanger. 

 g. Adult. Africa. From Mr. Frank's Collection as Rana fuscigula. 

 h. Half-grown. Africa. From Mr. Frank's Collection as Rana gra- 

 cilis*. 



25. Rana fasciata. 



Eana fasciata, Boie, Mus. Liigd. Bat. ; Bum. <^- JBibr. p. 389 ; Smith, 



I. c. pi. 78. f. 1. 

 Strongylopus fasciatus, Tschndi, Batr. p. 79. 

 Eana delalandii, Bell, Zool. Beagle, Rept. p. 31. pi. 16. f. 1. 



Head longer than broad ; muzzle pointed ; tympanum distinct, 

 rather small ; skin nearly smooth ; hinder legs very slender ; fingers 

 and toes much elongate, veiy slender ; toes only webbed at the base ; 

 vomerine teeth in a straight Hue, internipted in the middle, situated 

 between the front edge of the inner nostrils. 



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



h. Adult : not good state. South Africa. Presented by Charles Dar- 

 win, Esq. Original specimen of Prof. Bell's description and 

 figure. 



5. SPH^ROTHECA. 



Habit similar to Pehhates ; head thick, with short, rounded muzzle 

 and swollen, spherical occiput f ; extremities short, fingers free ; toes 

 five, half- webbed ; first cuneiform bone "with a flat, oval, sharp-edged 

 spur. Skin smooth, with indistinct scattered tubercles. Vomerine 

 teeth in two oblique series. Tongue cordiform, free and deeply 

 nicked behind ; eustachian tubes moderate ; tympanum distinct. 

 Sacral vertebra not dilated. Male with an external vocal sac. East 

 Indies. 



1. Sphasrotheca strigata. (Plate II. fig. A.) 



Yellowish brown, with dark brown spots and a yellow band from 

 the muzzle to anus. 



a. Many specimens. Madras. Presented by J. C. Jerdon, Esq. 

 h. Skeleton : male. Madras. Presented by J. C. Jerdon, Esq. 



Description. — In habit similar to Pelobates ; head thick, rounded, 

 with shoi't rounded muzzle and much-swollen occiput ; extremities 

 short ; fingers quite free, each with one or two very prominent tu- 

 bercles at the palmar surface ; metacarpus with a larger, oval, outer 

 tubercle and with a smaller inner one ; toes five, of moderate length, 



* In the printed, but not published, ' Nomenclator ReiJtilium Musaei Zoolog. 

 Berol.,' I find the name oi Bona gracilis, Schlegel, from tlie Gold Coast. What- 

 ever the characters of this species may be, the above specimen belongs to 7?. de- 

 lalandii. t a(pal(ja spligera, and ©ry/ct; cranium. 



