THE ERRATA SLIP 



At least the original copy of the Reptilia volume available to myself contains an 

 Errata slip on which nine adjustments appear, five of which refer to herpetological taxa. It 

 also contains an additional note saying: ''The descriptions of Figs. 2 and 3, Plate 47 

 Mammalia, which were accidentally omitted in Part 25, will be found in the present Part, 

 together with separate Title-pages and Indexes for each Division of the Work", which 

 makes it probable that the slip was issued together with either the last part (28), or the 

 appendix; in either case this is 1849 according to Waterhouse (1880) for part 28 on the 

 one, and the date shown on said title page on the other hand 



While two of the lines refer merely to generic re-allocations of species and are 

 therefore only of interest for synonymies. Smith clearly indicates the intended spelling of 

 certain species names in two other lines In all but one case the date of these emendations 

 ( 1 849) is the same as that of the parts they refer to and must therefore be regarded as valid 

 corrections of erroneous original spellings according to Art 32c of the I. C.Z.N. Code ( 1 985 : 



67f0. 



The one taxon where this is not so is Elapsoidea sundevalti whose original 

 description and plate were issued already in July 1 848 (Waterhouse 1880). The name was, 

 it appears, not used by any other worker ("first reviser". Art. 24c of the I. C.Z.N. Code) in 

 the interim (Ulber in Ulber 1995; compare also Broadley in Golay et al 1993), so that this 

 emendation should also be acceptable as a valid correction of an incorrect original spelling 

 under the terms of Art. 32 (c [ii]). It appears that Lambiris (as "A L ' [n Branch et auct. 

 1988: 13) and Branch (1998: 106) were not aware of the Errata slip. 



For the reader's convenience, the relevant lines of the Errata slip are quoted here: 



"- Walbergii, where it occurs, rt^aJ Wahlbergii." 



"- Sunderwallii, where it occurs, read Sundevalli." 



2 

 "- Tarentola Bibroni, Plate 50, r^at/ Pachydactylus Bibronii." 



"- Tarentola Capensis, Plate 50, reaJPachy dactyl us Capensis " 



Schismaderma carens Smith, 1849 



The fifth line on the Errata slip reads: 

 "- Bufo carens, Plate 68, read Schismaderma lateralis.", 



and on page 28 of the Appendix, Smith states under the header "Postscript": 

 "IN the letter-press description of Bufo carens, plate 68, 1 mentioned that I considered this 

 Batrachian would require to be regarded as the type of a group, if the absence of parotids 

 was a constant character. I have now, in addition to the specimen I possessed when the 

 above was published, six others, in all of which the deficiency exists, I therefore propose 

 to sink the name Bufo carens, and substitute for it Schismaderma lateralis" 



This paragraph is followed by the definition of the genus Schismaderma. According 

 to this. Smith designated as the type species for his genus Schismaderma the substitute 

 name Schi.smaderma lateralis. As it appears, this substitution has been entirely unnecessary 

 since the description of Bufo carens on (unnumbered) page (143) of the main text chapter 

 accompanied by plate 68, Fig 1, is perfectly valid Although of no practical consequence, 

 Schi.smaderma laterahs Smith, 1849, must however be regarded as the originally (by 

 monotypy, for that matter) designated type species of this genus 



