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third the length of the second toe. The hind limb being carried 

 forwards along the body, the metatarsal tubercle reaches a little 

 beyond the tip of the snout. Skin of the upper parts with large, 

 rounded, very prominent warts. Greyish brown above, indistinctly 

 marbled; legs transversely barred; throat brown-spotted, with a 

 M-shaped blackish patch in the male. The latter with two much 

 developed internal subgular vocal sacs. 

 Malabar. 



"-^if-V- d', $, & yg. Malabar. Col. Beddome [P.]. 



22. Kaua tuberculosa. 



Pyxicephalus rugosuS; Oiinth, Proc. Zool. Soo. 1864, p. 479, pi. 33. 

 f. 1. 



Vomerine teeth in two oblique groups between the choanse. Head 

 short ; snout rounded ; interorbital space narrower than the upper 

 eyelid ; tympanum distinct, two thirds the size of the eye. Fingers 

 moderate, first extending slightly beyond second ; toes moderate, 

 one-third webbed ; subarticular tubercles of fingers and toes mode- 

 rate ; inner metatarsal tubercle compressed, shovel-like, half as long 

 as the second toe ; no other metatarsal tubercle. The hind limb 

 being carried forwards along the body, the metatarsal tubercle 

 reaches beyond the tip of the snout. Skin of upper surfaces with 

 prominent glandular folds and tubercles. Brown above, darker 

 marWed ; a light vertical spot on the loreal region, between eye and 

 nostril ; sometimes a light vertebral stripe. 



W. Africa. 



a-b. 2 ■ Pungo Andongo. Mr. Welwitsch [0.]. (TypesO 



V. 2- "W.Africa. Prof. Barboza du Bocage [P-]. 



28. Raua uatalensis. 



Tomoptema natalensis, Giinth. Cat. p. 129. 

 Pyxicephalus natalensis, Smith, III. S. Afr., Rept, App. p. 23 ; Oiinth 



Froc. Zool. Soc. 1870, p. 401. '«-!-. 



Tomoptema labrosa, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1868, p. 111. 

 Pyxicephalus madagascariensis, Qrandid. Ann. So. Nat. ser 5 t xv 



1872, a. 20, p. 9. " ' " ' 



Vomerine teeth in two scarcely oblique groups between the choanse. 

 Head moderate ; snout moderate ; interorbital space narrower than 

 the upper eyelid ; tympanum very distinct, two thirds the size of 

 the eye. Fingers moderate, first extending a little beyftnd second ; 

 toes moderate, half webbed ; subarticular tubercles of fingers and 

 toes moderate ; inner metatarsal tubercle compressed, shovel-shaped, 

 half the length of the second toe ; no other metatarsal tubercle. The 



