1898.] BATRACHIAN COlI/ECTIOJf ITf THE BRITISH MUSEUM, 479 



8. Spelerpes altamazonicus Cope. — Colombia (Pratt). 

 *9. Desmognathus h7-imleijorum Steju. Proc. IJ.S. Nat. Mus. 

 xvii. 1895, p. 597. — Arkansas {Brimley). 

 *10. Typhlomolge ratJibuni Stejn. op. cit. xviii. 1896, p. 620. — 

 Texas (U.S. Nat. Mus.). 



Apoda. 



1. HypocjeopMs alternans Stejn. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xvi. 

 1894, p. 739.— Seychelles {Paris Mus.). 

 *2. JBdeUop7iis vittatus Blgr. P. Z. S. 1895, p. 412.— German 



E. Africa ( Werner). 

 *3. Boulenr/enda houlengeri Tornier, Thiervv. O.-Afr., Rept. 

 Amph. p. 164 (1896). — German E. Africa {Berlin Mus.). 

 4. Siphonops brasiliensis Ehdt. — Sta. Catliarina {Prague 

 Museum). 



II. Descriptions of new Species. 



1. Phktnobateachus peepalmatus. (Plate XXXVIII. fig. 1.) 



Tongue with a conical median papilla. Habit ranoid. Head 

 small ; snout short, subacuminate, without canthus ; interorbital 

 space convex, a little narrower than the upper eyelid ; tympanum 

 feebly distinct, two thirds the diameter of the eye. Eirst finger 

 not extending quite so far as second ; toes entirely webbed, with 

 very slightly swollen tips ; subarticular tubercles small ; two small 

 metatarsal tubercles and a third tubercle in the middle of the inner 

 edge of the tarsus. The tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the eye, 

 the tarso-metatarsal a little beyond the tip of the snout. Skin 

 feebly warty above. Brown above, with small dark spots ; a dark, 

 light-edged streak on each side from the eye to the groin, involving 

 the tympanum ; a dark cross-bar on the thigh and another on the 

 tibia ; hinder side of thighs white, with a wavy blackish band ; lower 

 parts white, throat with some brown dots ; two brown streaks or 

 series of spots on the lower surface of the thighs. 



Total length 22 millim. 



Two specimens were obtained about Lake Mwero by Mr. J. E. S. 

 Moore on his expedition to Lake Tanganyika. 



2. Abtheolepxis mooeii. (Plate XXXVIII. fig. 2.) 



Tongue with a conical median papilla. Head moderate, as long 

 as broad ; snout rounded, as long as the eye ; nostril nearer the 

 end of the snout than the eye ; interorbital space as broad as the 

 upper eyelid ; tympanum indistinct, two thirds the diameter of 

 the eye. Eirst and second fingers equal, more than half as long 

 as third ; toes webbed at the base, tips slightly swollen ; sub- 

 articular tubercles small ; two very small metatarsal tubercles, 

 and a third tubercle in the middle of the inner edge of the 

 tarsus. The tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the tip of the snout. 

 Skin smooth. Olive above ; a triangular dark spot, the apex 

 turned backwards, between the eyes ; a ^-shaped dark marking 



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