On new Reptilia from Mashon aland. 47 



dark brown spots or niarblings ; a broad dark angular or 

 curved band from one eyelid to the other across the back of 

 the head and a narrow straight dark streak across the forehead, 

 between the anterior borders of the upper eyelids ; upper lip, 

 limbs, and lower parts white. 



mm. 



From snout to vent 48 



Head 13 



Width of head 17 



Diameter of eye 6 



Interorbital width 2^ 



Width of mouth , . . . . 12" 



Fore limb 22 



Hand 10 



Hind limb 30 



Foot 13 



I am indebted to my friend Mr. L. Peringuey, Director of 

 the South African Museum, fur three specimens of this most 

 distinct new species, one of which he has kindly presented to 

 the British Museum. Mr. Peringuey, who has been able to 

 keep them alive for some time, writes to me that they spend 

 the whole day buried in damp sand. At night the pupil, which 

 contracts to a narrow horizontal slit, expands over nearly the 

 whole eye. Like B. gihbosus, this frog, when teased, or 

 merely touched, inflates its body tremendously and utters 

 shrill screams — a habit which seems to be frequent among 

 burrowing batrachians whatever their affinities. Unlike 

 B. gibbosus, B. macrops does not cover itself with a viscous 

 secretion when alarmed. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE 11. 



Breviceps macrops, adult and half-grown. 



VI r. — Descriptions of a new Toad and a new Amphishcenid 

 from Maskonakind. By G. A. BOULENGER, F.R.S. 



[Plate HI.] 



In November last I had the pleasure of drawing attention in 

 these 'Annals' to the Chirinda Forest in S.E. Mashonaland, 

 where Mr. Guy H. K. Marshall had discovered a now 

 chama^leon of the genus Rhampholeon. I remarked that its 

 reptile and batrachian faunn, when explored, was likely to 

 afford further startling additions to South-.Vfrican herpetology. 



