346 Mr. G. A. Boulenger on new 



white band on the upper lip ; limbs with more or less distinct 

 dark cross-bands ; hinder side of thighs and lower surface of 

 hind limbs with brown reticulation ; throat and breast spotted 

 or marbled with brown. Male with internal vocal sacs ; with- 

 out humeral glands. 



From snout to vent : male 35 millim., female 50. 



Several specimens. 



Phrynella, g. n. (Engystomatldarum.) 



Pupil horizontal. Tongue elliptical, entire, free behind. 

 Vomerine teeth none. No ridges across the palate. Tym- 

 panum hidden. Fingers free, toes extensively webbed ; tips 

 of fingers and toes dilated. Outer metatarsals united. No 

 prsecoracoids ; sternum cartilaginous. Diapophyses of sacral 

 vertebra moderately dilated. Terminal phalanges T-shaped. 



Phrynella pulchra. (PI. X. fig. 2.) 



Physiognomy of a Callula. Head small, with short, trun- 

 cate, projecting snout ; eye moderate, its diameter a little less 

 than the length of the snout ; interorbital space nearly twice 

 as broad as the upper eyelid. Fingers depressed, dilated into 

 large subtriangular disks; first finger shorter than second; 

 subarticular tubercles very large and flat. Toes nearly en- 

 tirely webbed, feebly dilated at the end ; a small, oval, flat, 

 inner metatarsal tubercle. The tibio-tarsal articulation hardly 

 reaches the posterior border of the eye. Skin smooth, or with 

 small flat warts on the sides and hinder part of the back. 

 BroAvn above with symmetrical darker spots, some of which 

 are edged with a pink line ; throat and lower surface of foot 

 brown ; belly, groin, and lower hinder side of thighs yellowish 

 (in spirit) ; vent in a large dark brown spot, separated from 

 the dark colour of the back and thighs by a zone of the yel- 

 lowish colour of the lower surface. Male with an internal 

 subgular vocal sac. 



From snout to vent .89 millim. 



Two specimens, male and female. 



Bufo parvus. (PI. X. fig. 3.) 



Near B. hiporcatus, with which it agrees in the disposition 

 of the cranial ridges. Snout very short, truncate, projecting 

 considerably beyond the mouth, the nostrils anterior to 

 the vertical of the lower jaw ; the interorbital space as broad 

 as, or a little broader than, the upper eyelid ; tympanum very 

 distinct, vertically oval, close to the eye and two thirds to 



