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6. PTENOPUS. 



Ptenopus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 640; Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 

 1868, p. 321. 



Digits not dilated, furnished with a long claw, inferiorly with a 

 series of narrow transverse plates. Fingers subcylindrical. Toes 

 depressed, with a lateral fringe of long pointed scales. Body covered 

 with granular scales. Pupil vertical. Lower eyelid distinct, upper 

 much developed. No praeanal nor femoral pores. 



South Africa. 



1. Ptenopus garrulus. (Plate II. fig. 2.) 



Stenodactylus garrulus, Smith, III. S. Afr., Rept., App. ip.6; A. Dum, 

 Cat. Meth. Rept. p. 47, and Arch. Mm. viii. p. 488 ; G'unth. Zool. 

 Rec. ii. p. 149. 



Ptenopus maculatus, Gray, I. c. ; Cope, I. c. 



Head short, swollen ; snout rounded, as long as the diameter of 

 the orbit, shorter than the distance between the eye and the ear- 

 opening ; upper eyelid well developed, meeting almost the rudimen- 

 tary lower lid ; ear-opening a small oblique slit. Body moderately 

 elongate, depressed ; limbs moderate ; a more or less distinct trans- 

 verse gular fold. Scales uniform small granules, a little larger on 

 the belly. Ilostral small, six-sided, nearly as broad as high ; 

 nostril pierced between two nasals, the anterior being the largest 

 and in contact with the rostral and first labial ; seven or eight 

 upper, and seven to nine lower labials ; mental small, a little longer 

 than the adjacent labials ; no chin-shields. Tail short, cylindrical, 

 tapering, covered with uniform, small, squarish flat scales. Pale 

 buff or cream-coloured above, with dark reddish-brown reticulations 

 forming spots ; lower surfaces white. 



Total length 80 millim. 



Head 12 



Width of head 11 



Body 37 



Fore limb 19 



Hind limb 25 



TaU 31 



South Africa. 



a. Several specs. : J,?, S.Africa. Sir A. Smith [P.], 



andhgr. (Types.) 



b-c. (S 2 • Damaraland. (Types of Ptenopus 



maculatus.) 



