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more or less symmetrically arranged on a lighter brown or greyish ground 
colour ; a dark bar between the eyes, anterior and posterior to which is a 
pale area ; the dark patches on the body ill-defined. Female, from snout 
to vent, 38 mm. ; male, from snout to vent, 33 mm. 
Description drawn up from three specimens, which seem to be sexually 
mature. Localities : Newington, N.E. Transvaal (Dr. J. P. Fenoulhet), 
March, 1912, 1 a' ; the Woodbush (Miss A. Eastwood), December, 1911, 
1 ^ and 1 2 • 
Types : The Newington example in the Albany Museum (No. 1520) 
and the Woodbush examples in the Transvaal Museum (Nos. 508 
and 509). 
This toad seems to be distinct from Bufo regularis in the absence 
of granulations on the belly and in the double subarticular tubercles of 
the digits ; from vertebralis it is distinguished through the better developed 
parotoids and the stronger development of asperities on the dorsal surface ; 
gariepensis {granti) and angusticeps are easily distinguished by their 
distinct tarsal fold. 
It is of interest to note that, according to Mr. Boulenger (P.Z.S., 1907, 
p. 479), the colour pattern of some examples of Bufo regularis from the 
Woodbush is very unusual, and " they might be well thought to indicate 
a distinct species were they not connected with the more typical form 
by every possible gradation." He also mentions some specimens from 
Beira, in which the parotoids are exceptionally so flat as to be hardly 
distinguishable. As Mr. Boulenger adds nothing with regard to the 
various other characters utilisable for specific distinction, we may perhaps 
infer that the Woodbush specimens were essentially the same as regularis 
in those respects. But if it shall eventually prove that the characters just 
described in fenoulheti grade completely into those of regularis it will be 
no longer possible to maintain the specific identity of vertebralis, as this 
new form is quite as near to vertebralis as to regularis. 
LACEETILIA. 
TeTRADACTYLUS EASTWOODS, n. sp. 
Serpentiform ; limbs very short. The anterior limb with three very 
small digits, each with a claw, the middle digit longest ; posterior limb 
with two digits, both clawed, the inner one minute. Dorsal shields 
striated and strongly keeled in 12 longitudinal and 67 transverse rows ; 
ventrals in 6 longitudinal series. The head shields similar to those of 
T. africanus, but the interparietal is more elongated, separating the 
frontoparietals and forming a suture with the frontal. Femoral pores 3. 
