B.ITRACHIANS FROM EAST AFRICA. 



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

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

 Tibio-tarsal articulation reaches tlie eye or slightly beyond ; 

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

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

 dark vertebral markings characteristic of the genus ; a fine white 

 vertel)ral line in five, a broad one in tliree specimens; barred 

 limbs; whitish beneath, sometimes with a dark thront ; a few 

 spots on lower lip. A fine line:ir 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 Pfeflt'. 



Morogoro. Ex-G.E.A. 



7 specimens. Length 22 to 32 mm. 



Text-figure 2. 



Rappia puncticidaf a. Nat. size. 



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

 eyelid. Fingers with a. rudimentary web, toes if wel)bed. 

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

 length of body. 



The specimen figured l)y Pfefier is of a uniform colouring, 



* " Bappia, sp. A Tree Prog- was found impaled on tlie spike of an Aloe, in 

 company with sundiy grasshoppers which formed the larder ot a ^hrike." — 

 A. LovERiDGK, FieJd Notes. 



