1907.] BATRACHIAJs^S AND REPTILES. 479 



III. Transvaal. Legogot, Barberton District, on Di-akensberg 



Mts., on the Komati R., 2500 feet. 



Pietersburg, N. slope of Drakensberg, 2400 feet. 



Tuefloop, ]Sr. slope of Drakensberg, 18 miles E. of Pieters- 

 burg, 4500 feet. 



Woodbusli, N. slope of Drakensberg, 30 miles K.E. of 

 Pietersburg, 4500 feet. 



Zoutspansburg, on Klein Letaba, a branch of Letaba E,., 

 affluent of Olifants R., 1000 feet. 



IV. Portuguese East Africa. Inhambane. 



Ooguno, about 80 miles inland of Inhambane. 



Beira. 

 The series of specimens now dealt with proves more interesting 

 than the first, and two species are described as new. In the follow- 

 ing list, an asterisk precedes the name of the species not mentioned 

 in the first report * ; two asterisks indicate that the species has 

 not been previously recorded from south of the Zambesi. 



BATRACHIA. 



Ag LOSS A. 



1. Xenopus l^vis Daud. 

 Knysna. 



Phaneroglossa. 



2. BuFO regularis Reuss. (Plate XXI.) 



Woodbush, Klein Letaba, Coguno, Beira. 



As in almost every part of Africa, this species varies wonder- 

 fully in colour and markings, even in specimens obtained from the 

 same pools, where they congregate for breeding. Some have 

 much crimson or pink on the back of the thighs and in the gi'oin, 

 whilst others are entirely deprived of the brilliant colour. The 

 most remarkable specimens are from Woodbush, and might be 

 well thought to indicate a distinct species, were they not connected 

 with the more typical form by every possible gradation. The 

 young have the upper surface of the snout as far back as a dark 

 interocular bar, and the parotoid glands, of a beautiful pink ; part 

 of the back is also pink, with grey markings with a fine black 

 border ; the pink ground-colour appears as a dagger-shaped mark 

 ing on the back. These markings become more indistinct with 

 age, and the pink colour gradually fades away or disappears 

 entirely. By a curious inversion of the ground-colour and the 

 markings, some out of a number of specimens from Zoutspansburg 

 are grey with pink markings. Four of these remarkable speci- 

 mens are figured on PI. XX 1. 1 



In some of the specimens from Beira, the parotoid glands ai;e 

 exceptionally so flat as to be hardly distinguishable. 



* P. Z. S. 1905, vol. ii. p. 248. 



t See the two bottom figures on colour-plate vi. of Miss Dickerson's ' Frog Book ' 

 for a similar inversion of colour in Syla versicolor. 



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