420 



ox TAILLESS RATRACHIANS FIIOM EAST A RICA 



25. Hylambates johnstoni Blgr.* 



Mhoiiga. Ex-G.E.A. 



6 specimens. Length 27 to 45 mm. 



e n g y sto m ati d ^ . 

 Phrynomantis. 



26. Phrynomaxtis bifasciata Smitii. 

 Ex-G.E.A. Lumbo. 



3 specimens. Lengtli 38, 40, and 48 mm. 



Dark piirplisU brown with pink markings, agreeing with var. A 

 of the British Museum Catalogue. 



Breviceps, 



27. Breviceps mossameicus Ptrs. 



Morogoro. Kougwa. J)o(loma. Lumbo. 

 15 s[)ecimens. Length 29 to 48 mm. 



Hemisus. 



28. Hkmisus marmoratum Ptrs. 

 Gonya. Morogoro. 



8 specimens. Length of Largest 35 mm. 



Lengtli of tibia- variable, going from 2j to 3 times in length 

 from snout to vent. The usual occipital fold is absent in 

 three specimens, and a linear vei'tebral groove is present in three 

 specimens. 



B U F O X I D .E . 

 BUFO. 



29. BuFo regularis Reuss. 



.Kain^bi. Kedong Yalle}-. Donya, Sabnk. Tumu Tumu. 

 Longido West. Morogoro. Dnthumi. 'I'ulo. 



27 specimens. Average length of adult 80 mm. 



Every specimen has either a fine light vertebral line or a 

 snnken line in the skin ; one female ha,s its thighs marbled with 

 red, but there are none of the beautiful i-ed forms figured in 

 Mr. B;>ulenger's Second Report on the Grant Collection f. The 

 parotoids are veiy variable in length, sometimes 4 times as long 

 a.s broad, and greenish in colour. 



30. BuFo CARENS Smith. 

 Nairobi 



1 specimen. Length 76 mm. 



"At Mhong-a, when my boy Ijroug'lit me my mule which had heeii grazing- in a 

 patch of kattir-coiu, I was delighted to iind my h^addle already occupied b}' a large 

 trog, whilst another was ensconced in the nose-bag."- — A. Loveridge, Field Notes. 

 t P.Z.S. 1907, pi. xxi. 



