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3. Praslinia cooperi, sp.n. (Plate 40, fig. 1.) 
Head and body much depressed. Snout rounded, scareely projecting beyond the 
mouth, about as long as the distance between the eyes, which are very small; tentacle 
on a line with the lower border of the eye, the distance between them not more than 
the diameter of the latter. 40 to 48 teeth on each side of the upper jaw, and about as 
many in the outer mandibular series on each side; about 45 inner mandibular teeth 
altogether. Body short, about 20 times as long as broad, ending obtusely just behind 
the vent; 140 to 160 folds, at first wide apart and interrupted above and beneath, then 
alternately nearly complete and restricted to the sides, and lastly (in posterior third of 
body) all complete and close together. Uniform blackish brown. 
Total length 230 millim. 
Two specimens from Praslin. 
4. Cryptopsophis multiplicatus, Bler. 
Mahé: Cascade Estate, 1000 f. Stlhouette. 
The monotypic genus Cryptopsophis was established on a single specimen from the 
Seychelles, without more exact indication of locality. 
ECAUDATA. 
5. Rana mascareniensis, D. & B. 
Mahé: Up to 1400 f. Praslin. Morne. 
Distributed over the greater part of Africa, from Egypt and Senegambia to Zululand 
and Angola, and found also in Madagascar, the Mascarenes, and the Seychelles. 
NESOMANTIS, gen. nov. 
Pupil horizontal. Tongue elliptical, entire, free behind. Vomerine teeth present. 
Tympanum hidden. Fingers and toes free, the tips dilated into small but very distinct 
disks; outer metatarsals not separated by web. Sternum cartilaginous. Terminal 
phalanges pointed. 
Allied to Sooglossus, Blgr., but distinguished by the presence of vomerine teeth and 
the absence of the claw-like dermal termination of the digits. 
6. Nesomantis thomasseti, sp. n. (Plate 40. fig. 2.) 
Vomerine teeth in two short oblique series well behind the level of the choanz. 
Head much depressed, a little broader than long; snout rounded, a little shorter than 
the orbit; no canthus rostralis; loreal region very oblique, feebly grooved; nostril 
nearer the end of the snout than the eye; interorbital space as broad as the upper 
eyelid. Fingers short, first shorter than second; toes moderate ; no distinct subarticular 
or metatarsal tubercles. The tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the eye; tibia half the 
length of head and body. Skin smooth; a glandular fold from the eye to the shoulder. 
Purplish brown above, with darker symmetrical markings very similar to those of 
Sooglossus sechellensis; a pair of small light spots on each side of the anterior part 
