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large as the eye. Two distinct but scarcely prominent apophysis in 

 front of the lower jaw; vomerine teeth distinct, in two oblique series, 

 converging behind. Skin of the back with numerous short longitud- 

 inal folds. Tips of fingers and toes slightly swollen; fourth toe 

 one-third longer than the fifth ; all broadly webbed, the web not 

 extending quite to the tip of the fourth toe. Fifth toe with a cutaneous 

 fringe along the outer margin. Metatarsus with a slight fold of skin 

 along its inner edge and with a sub-crescentic tubercle. 



Colour in Life. — Upper parts greenish brown. with ovate, sub-quad- 

 rangular and rounded black spots. Usually a yellowish white vertebral 

 line from the tip of snout to the vent. Limbs barred with dark brown. 

 Under surface white. 



Length. — Head and body 4 to 6"5 inches. Hind limb from vent, 7 to 

 8 inches. 



Hab. — Sind, Punjab, N. W. Provinces, Oudh, Bengal, Western Presi- 

 dency generally. Southern India and Ceylon. 



Pyxicephalus, Tschudi. 



Head large and thick ; muzzle rather short ; vomerine teeth in two 

 oblique series. Tongue large, free and deeply notched behind. Meta- 

 tarsus with a fiat, sharp-edged spur. Toes incompletely webbed. 



Pyxicephalus breviceps, Sehneid. Hist. Amph. i. p, 142. Pyxice- 

 phalus fodiens, Jerd. J. A. S. B. 1 854, p. 534. Sphserotheca strigata, 

 Gunth. Batr., Salienta, p. 20. pi. ii. fig. A. 



Body short. Head covered with moveable skin. Occiput swollen. 

 Tongue cordiform, free and deeply notched behind; a cleft on each side 

 of the tongue of males for the vocal sac ; vocal sac externally formed by 

 two lateral bladders communicating in the middle ; tympanum round, 

 distinct, nearly as large as the eye. Vomerine teeth in two oblique 

 series, convergent behind, but with an interspace between. Limbs 

 short ; fingers free, each with one or two tubercles on the palmar surface. 

 Metatarsus with a larger, oval, outer tubercle and with a smaller 

 inner one. Skin smooth, with some small indistinct tubercles. Nostril 

 near the muzzle, and very near the canthus rostralis. 



Colour above yellowish brown, generally with a yellow dorsal 

 band from the snout to the anus, and with dark brown, sometimes 

 confluent spots. Crown with two oblique brown streaks, beginning on 

 the upper eyelids, convergent behind atid separated by the yellow 

 vertebral streak. A brown streak from the eye along the canthus 

 rostralis ; beneath nearly uniform white. 



Length.— 1-75 to 2-5 inches. 



Hab.—Sind, Punjab (Simla), N. W. Provinces, Oudh, Bengal, 

 Southern India (Madras), Ceylon and Southern Africa. 



Tomopterna, Bibr- 



Characters same as those of Pyxicephalus. Males with an internal 

 sub-gular sac. Toes half-webbed. 



Tomopterna Strachani, Sp. Nov. 



Muzzle very little longer than broad. Snout obtuse. Tympanum 



