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with a broad white streak down each side of the belly ; scales equal, 
square. 
Hab. Madagascar. Male and female. 
Var. crassicornis. B.M. 
One of the males, with the horns only partly developed, has them 
very thick and trigonal at the base, so as nearly to reach across the 
nose. In another young male, about the same size, they are com- 
pressed and far apart at the base, as in the type specimens. 
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2. DicRANOSAURA PARSONII. B.M. 
Chameleo parsonii, Gray, Cat. B. M. 264; A. Dum. Arch. du 
Mus. vi,t.'22. f. 12. 
Chameleon parsonii, Fitz. Syst. Rept. 42. 
The nose-horns erect, lobed ; back rounded, not dentated in front. 
Hab. Madagascar, 
There is only a female of this species in the Museum. 
14. CyNEOSAURA. 
Nose of both sexes flat in front, with the sides dilated, serrated, 
and covered with large scales. The occiput flat, with a sharp-edged, 
narrow, central keel above, produced, broad, and rounded behind. 
Orbit simple. Back compressed, with a series of large compressed 
scales. Chin and belly dentated. Scales unequal. 
1. CYNEOSAURA PARDALIS. B.M. 
Chameleo pardalis, Gray, Cat. B. M. 266; A. Dum. Arch. du 
Mus. vi. t. 22. f. 11 (head). 
Bradypodium pardalis, Fitz. Syst. Rept. 43. 
Brown in spirits, with a broad white streak down the middle of 
the sides. 
Hab. Bourbon; Madagascar. 
7. DescrirrioNs OF NEW SPECIES OF BATRACHIANS FROM West 
Arrica. By A. Ginruer, M.A., M.D., Ph.D., F.Z.S. 
(Plate XXXIIL.) 
PyXICEPHALUS RUGOsUS. (PI. XXXIII. fig. 1.) 
Similar to P. delalandii. Wabit rather stout ; head broad, the 
distance between the angles of the mouth being equal to the length 
of the head ; snout obtuse, as long as the diameter of the eye, with 
the upper part somewhat projecting beyond the mouth, and with the 
loreal region obliquely sloping outwards. Lower jaw without pro- 
minent apophyses ; eustachian openings narrower than the choane ; 
vomerine teeth in two short oblique series between the choane., 
Tympanum indistinct, smaller than the orbit. Upper parts of the 
head and body with prominent glandular folds and tubercles ; tuber- 
cles in the interorbital region disposed in pairs; two glandular folds 
