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DESCEIPTIONS OF SOME NEW BATEACHIA AND 
LACERTILIA FEOM SOUTH AFEICA. 
By John Hewitt, B.A., and Paul A. Methuen, F.Z.S. 
(Eead July 17, 1912.) 
(With Plate VII.). 
BATEACHIA. 
NATALOBATEACHUS BONEBERGI, gen. et sp. nov. 
Mr. Hewitt has recently received from the Eev. Father Boneberg, of 
Mariannhill, several specimens of a frog which represents a genus new 
to South Africa, and seems to have been undescribed. It belongs to the 
Family Eanidae, and is generically related to Phrynohatrachus, Staurois, and 
Oreobatrachics : it is distinguishable from the two former by the possession 
of T-shaped terminal phalanges, and from Oreobatrachics in that the tongue 
is deeply incised behind and there is no continuous dermal fold between 
the choanae. The frog may be described as follows : — 
NATALOBATEACHUS, gen. nov. 
Pupil horizontal. Tongue free and bifurcated behind. No vomerine 
teeth. Fingers free, their terminal phalanges T-shaped, and without any 
supernumerary phalanx between the two distal phalanges ; toes webbed ; 
outer metatarsals distinctly separated by web distally, but proximally 
united. Ziphisternum and omosternum each with a long and slender 
bony style. 
NATALOBATEACHUS BONEBERGI, Sp. nOV. 
Figs. 
Snout triangular, somewhat pointed and projecting in front ; nostril 
nearer to tip of snout than to the eye. Tympanum distinct, a trifle more 
than half the size of the eye. No median papilla on the tongue. No 
indication of external vocal pouches in the male . Dorsal surfaces without 
