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folds, with a tendency to become roughened or granulated ; belly smooth ; 
thighs somewhat granulated behind. Fingers free, their tips dilated into 
triangular discs, which are not as big as the tympanum ; the two inner 
fingers small, the first one shorter than the second, the third and fourth 
considerably bigger, the former being the longest. Toes about half-webbed 
or very slightly less, their tips distinctly dilated, but not so much as the 
fingers ; a small inner metatarsal tubercle ; a slight skin flap at the heel. 
Tibio-tarsal joint of adpressed hind- limb reaching to the nostril. 
Upper surfaces brownish, sometimes with small rusty-red spots ; 
limbs with darker cross-bars, which are pale margined on the thighs ; 
ventral surfaces pale in the female, the throat, breast, and to a less extent 
the lower surfaces of the limbs fuscous in the male ; a pale whitish band 
with ill-defined border passes from the nostril below the eye and 
tympanum to the base of the fore-limb. Size : From snout to vent, 
37 mm. 
Locality : Mariannhill, Natal. 
Father Boneberg found this species among the stones in the sandy 
shallows of a small rivulet which was concealed under a thick growth 
of creepers and thorns in the bushland near Mariannhill. In the same 
place he also found clusters of spawn, which was either attached to rock 
not covered by water, or to the slender branches overhanging the water at 
a height of several feet above its surface. 
Description drawn up from four specimens ; types in the Albany 
Museum and Mariannhill Museum. 
BUFO FENOULHETI, UOV. Sp. 
Crown without bony ridges ; head broader than long ; snout triangular 
and slightly protecting beyond the mouth, with fairly distinct canthus ; 
interorbital space flat ; eustachian tubes present ; tympanum distinct, 
about half the size of the eye, or slightly more. First finger only very 
slightly longer than the second or subequal thereto ; the subarticular 
tubercles of the fingers mostly double. Toes about h webbed ; sub- 
articular tubercles under fourth toe double, and there may be doubled 
tubercles under the fourth and fifth toes. The lower surface of the tarsus 
and foot is beset with a number of tubercles, the two metatarsal tubercles 
being scarcely or not at all larger than those on the tarsus ; no tarsal 
fold. The tarso-metatarsal articulation of the adpressed hind-limb reaches 
the posterior border of the eye. Upper surfaces of the body covered with 
numerous, closely set, small, rounded, and somewhat blister-like w^arts, 
each carrying one or many minute spines. Throat in female quite smooth, 
in the male very finely granular. Lower surfaces of body almost smooth, 
with a reticulated, but not granular, surface. Parotoid glands depressed 
and broad, kidney- shaped. Dorsal surfaces with darker brown patches 
