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XIII.—On a Oollection of Batrachians and Reptiles from the 
Interior of Cape Colony. By G. A. BouLencer, F.R.S. 
[Plates XVI. & XVII.] 
Amone the zoological collections made by Messrs. HE. C. H. 
Seimund and C. H. B. Grant at Deelfontein, and presented 
to the British Museum by Colonel Sloggett, the series of 
batrachians and reptiles is of considerable interest. Deel- 
fontein, a camp in the Richmond district, 32 miles below 
De Aar and 25 east of Victoria West, is situated in the middle 
of a barren region extending for miles in every direction, with 
nothing but brushwood and thorns, and very little water 
except immediately after rains. There are, however, a few 
springs or wells, in which frogs and toads are found. Under 
such conditions a list of the batrachians and reptiles cannot 
be expected to be a long one, and it is a surprise to me that 
two of them should prove to be undescribed. 
BATRACHIA. 
ECAUDATA. 
1, Xenopus levis, Daud. 
2. Bufo Granti, sp.u. (PIL. XVL) 
Crown without bony ridges; snout short, blunt; inter- 
orbital space as broad as or a little narrower than the upper 
eyelid ; tympanum very distinct, one half to three fourths 
the diameter of the eye. Fingers short, blunt, first not 
extending or extending but little beyond second ; toes short, 
webbed at the base; subarticular tubercles of toes simple, 
sometimes with a tendency to division; two moderate meta- 
tarsal tubercles; a more or less distinct tarsal fold. The 
hind limb stretched forwards does not extend or extends but 
little beyond the end of the snout ; the tarsc-metatarsal articu- 
lation reaches the axil, the shoulder, or between the shoulder 
and the tympanum. Upper parts with large, more or less 
prominent, flat warts ; parotoids moderately prominent, 
elliptic or reniform, rather variable in length, parallel or 
diverging posteriorly ; belly granular, at least posteriorly. 
Greyish or pale olive above, with large brown or dark olive 
spots or marblings much as in B, viridis. Male with an 
internal subgular vocal sac, 
