B.ITRACHIANS FROM EAST AFRICA. 



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dilated ; toes with a rudiuient of web ; inner metatarsal tubercle 

 as long as or slightly shorter than inner toe ; no outer tubercle. 

 Tibio-tarsal artic\dation reaches the eye or slightly beyond ; 

 length of tibia 3 times its breadtli, twice in length of body. 

 Skin smooth. Reddish brown or olive-grey above, with the 

 dark vertebral mai'kings characteristic of the genus ; a fine white 

 vertebral line in five, a broad one in three specimens ; barred 

 limbs; whitish beneath, sometimes witli a dark throat; a few 

 spots on lower lip. A fine linear vertebral ridge in two 

 specimens. Males with an internal vocal sac. 



Rappia*. 



15. Rappia granulata Blgr. 



Ex-G.E.A. 



6 young. 



16. Rappia puncticulata Pfeflf. 



Morogoro. Ex-G.E.A. 



7 specimens. Length 22 to 32 mm. 



Text-figure 2. 



'Rappia punfiticidata. Nat. size. 



Interorbital space varies from 1^ to 2 times width of upper 



eyelid. Fingers with a rudimentary web, toes | webbed. 



Length of tibia 2i to 2| times its breadth, 3| to 4 times in 



length of body. 



The specimen figured by Pfefler is of a uniform colouring, 

 * "Rappia, sp. A Tree Fro^- was found impaled on the spike of an Aloe, in 



company with sundry grasshoppers which formed the larder ot a Shrike.'" — 



A. LoVEEiDGE, Field Notes. 



