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7. Nesomantis thomasseti, Blgr. 



Mahe" : Top Mt. Pilot, 2700 ft.; Top of Mt. Harrison, 2400 ft. Silhouette: Summit, 

 2467 ft. 



8. Sooglossus sechellensis, Boettg. 



Mahe: Mt. Harrison over 2000 ft.; high jungle over Cascade; Top mountain, 2700 ft. 

 Silhouette: high jungle, Morne Capucin, 1800 ft. 



9. Megalixaltis sechellensis, Dum. and Bibr. 



Mahe: Cascade (J. C. Fryer). Silhouette: Mare aux Cochons, 1400 ft. 



10. Nectophryne gardineri, sp. n. (Fig. 2.) 



Snout pointed, prominent, hardly as long as the eye ; loreal region vertical ; 

 interorbital space broader than the upper eyelid ; tympanum hidden. Fingers and toes 

 short, much depressed, with a rudiment of web and no subarticular tubercles, the former 

 terminating rather suddenly into a point, the latter expanded into well developed round 

 disks ; two feebly prominent metatarsal tubercles. Tarso-metatarsal articulation reaching 

 the tip of the snout. Head and back more or less distinctly granular ; a flat round 

 tubercle on the upper eyelid, sometimes followed by a series of four similar tubercles along 

 each side of the back. Pinkish brown above, blackish brown on the sides, the two shades 

 sharply deliminated ; dark brown spots or markings, sometimes confluent into a broad 

 band along the middle of the back, may be present ; one specimen with a light vertebral 

 streak ; oblique dark bands may be present on the limbs ; lower parts yellowish, spotted 

 or marbled with dark brown. 



Total length 15 mm. 



This tiny toad, one of the smallest known, belongs to a genus represented by several 

 species in the African and Oriental regions, and which probably includes the viviparous 

 toad described by Tornier as Pseitdophryne vivipara. 



Mah£: Morne Pilot, 2700 ft. Silhouette: highest jungle. 



REPTILES. 



Lacertilia. 



1. Hemidactylus frenatus, Dum. and Bibr. 

 Bird I. (J. C. Fryer). 



2. AZluronyx sechellensis, Dum. and Bibr. 

 Praslin. Silhouette. 



3. Phelsuma madagascariense, Gray. 



Praslin. Silhouette. Bird I. (J. C. Fryer). Dennis I. (J. C. F.). 



4. Mabuia sechellensis, Dum. and Bibr. 

 Silhouette. Dennis (J. C. Fryer). 



