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or forming regular longitudinal or transverse series ; these spots sometimes 
light-edged ; a yellowish or pale green vertebral streak or broad band some- 
times present ; a dark canthal streak and a dark temporal spot : a light 
streak from the loreal region to the shoulder usually present, above the 
upper lip, which is usually brown or blackish spotted with whitish ; flanks 
and liinder side of thighs more or less marbled with blackish, or dark brown, 
or blackish with white sj)ots ; upper surface of limbs with dark cross -bands. 
Lower parts white, uniform, or with the throat and breast spotted, marbled, 
or vermiculated with black ; in specimens from Angola the throat and breast 
are usually dark brown or blackish, with the white ground appearing as 
round spots. 
Male with internal vocal sacs, sometimes indicated externally by folds on 
the sides of the throat ; fore limb very strong ; a thick pad on the inner side 
of the first finger, covered during the breeding season with a greyish-brown, 
velvet-like, horny layer, of which a similar but narrow patch is also present 
on the ujDper surface of the second finger; small whitish, conical, or spinose 
tubercles on the head and body. 
The tadpole is distinguished from that of the preceding species by fewer 
series of horny labial teeth, viz. 3 or 4 upper and 3 lower, answering to the 
1 1 1 
3-3 2—2 2—2 
following formulae : ^ or "j", or . The tail is often largely blotched 
1-1 1-1 3 ^ 
2 2 
with Ijlackish. 
Habitat. — Eastern parts of the Cape Province, ISTatal, Zululand, 
Transvaal, Bechuanaland, Ehodesia, Angola, Portuguese East Africa, 
Nyassaland. 
Mr. Power informs me that B. amjolerisis is plentiful at the Yaal River, 
16 miles north of Kimberley, and at the Modder River, 24 miles south of 
Kimberley, and thsit E. fuscigula occupies the intermediate area. He has 
however, taken specimens of both species in the same pool at the junction 
of the Modder and Riet Rivers, and there are other parts of the country 
where their range overlaps. 
Ba7ia theileri, Macquard, 'Bull. Mus. Paris,' 1906, p. 252, from the 
Transvaal, is certainly a synonym of B. angolensis. 
I am now inclined to regard, provisionally, B. queketti, Bouleng., 
' Proc. Zool. Soc.,' 1894, p. 643, PI. XXXIX, fig. 1, founded on a single 
specimen from Pietermaritzburg, as an abnormal B. angolensis. It agrees 
with this species in the shape of the head, in the very narrow interorbital 
space, and in the toes, which are only about | webbed. But the hind limb 
is shorter, as in B. fuscigula, the tibio-tarsal articulation reaching between 
the eye and the nostril, and the tibia measuring a little less than ^ the 
length from snout to vent. 
