11. EAPPIA, 121 



fourths webbed. Skin smooth above. Dark olive-green above ; an 

 indistinct blackish line from the tip of the snout through the eye 

 to the temporal region ; a rather iU-detined whitish streak from the 

 eye to the groin ; thighs not coloured. Male with a kidney-shaped 

 adhesive guiar disk. 

 Madagascar. 



3, Rappia fulvovittata. 



Hyperolius fulvovittatus, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1863, p. 517. 



quinquevittatus, Bocage, Jam. Sc. Lish. 18(36, i. p. 77. 



Rappia fulvovittata, Gitnth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 18G8, p. 479. 



? Hvperolius timbriolatiis, Buchh. ^- Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1876, 



p: 121. 

 Hyperolius vittiger, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1876, p. 122. 



Snout rounded, as long as the orbital diameter ; tympanum 

 hidden. Fingers one-third, toes two-thirds webbed. The hind 

 limb being carried forwards along the body, the tibio-tarsal articu- 

 lation does not reach the eye. Eody slender. Skin smooth, granu- 

 lar on the belly ; no strong fold across the chest. Light yellowish 

 brown above; a black band from the tip of the snout through the 

 eye along the side of the body ; two others along the middle of the 

 back, meeting between the eyes ; thighs coloured. 



W. Africa. 



a. 5 • Duque de Bragance. Prof. Barboza du Bocage [P.]. 



4. Rappia tristis. 

 Hyperohus tristis, Bocage, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. 1866, i. p. 76. 



Snout rather long, rounded ; tympanum hidden. Fingers 

 webbed at the base ; toes nearly entirely webbed. Skin smooth 

 above, with a few folds along the back, granular on the belly and 

 under the thighs. Dark greenish brown above, covered with con- 

 fluent black dots ; upper surface of thighs yellowish grey, speckled 

 with black ; a broad black line along the cauthus rostralis and 

 through the eye to the shoulder. 



Duque de Eragance, Angola. 



5. Rappia marmorata. 



Hyperolius viridiflavus, {nvn D. ^- B.) Giinth. Cat. p. 85. 



marmoratus, Gl'inth. I. c. p. 85. 



parallelus, Giinth. I.e. p. SG, pi. viii. f. A. 



taefliatus, Giinth. I. c. p. 87. 



marginatus, Giinth. I. c. p. 87. 



Hyperolius marmoratus, Rapp, Arch. f. Katwg. 1842, p. 289, t. 6 j 

 Smith, III. S. Afr., Bept., App. p. 26 ; Bocage, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. 

 18G6, i. p. 74; Steind. Kovara, Amph. p. 50, pi. 2. f. 19 & 20. 



tseniatus, Peters, Arch. f. Naturg. 1855, p, 57. 



luarginatus; Peters, I. c. 



