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j/. aerumnalis from which it differs essentially in the much smaller size of the tympanum and 
in the nature of the skin dorsally. It is also more distinctly related to Muller’s species. 
Description : head of moderate size : snout rather acutely rounded : cantlms rostralis 
distinct, slightly curved outwards anteriorly : loreal region almost vertical, somewhat 
poncave. Nostril situated just below the edge of the cantlms , a little nearer the end of the 
snout than the eye ; interorbital space about as broad as the upper eyelid is long. The 
tympanum, which is visible, is a half or a little more than a half the diameter of the orbit. 
Vomerine teeth in two groups between and behind the posterior level of the choanae. 
Tongue of moderate size, forked behind. 
Fingers not particularly slender, their tips dilated into discs of small or of moderate 
size ; first second and fourth fingers are subequal, but the second may be a trifle longer than 
the first, and the fourth a little longer than the second. The toes are about one-quarter 
webbed, their discs about the same size as those of the fingers. The subarticular tubercles are 
moderately prominent. There is a small but fairly prominent, somewhat elongated inner 
metatarsal tubercle : we cannot recognize an outer one. 
The ti bio-tarsal joint of the ad pressed hind limb reaches as far as the anterior corner of 
the eye. 
Text Fig. 5 . — Mantidactylus glandulosM , sp. nov. Dorsal aspect. 
The skin above and on the sides is remarkably glandular : between the eyes the skin is 
smooth, but the upper lip is granulate, and the glandulation of the back is carried on to the 
upper eyelid, the coggygeal region (which might better be described as granulate), and the 
upper and posterior parts of the thighs. The ventral surface is smooth. A fold from the 
eye over the tympanum to the shoulder is present. 
Colour and markings of type specimen (in spirits) ; upper surface dark grey with dirty 
white spots : lips barred with these colours : a rather light region between the anterior 
portion of the eyes ; a broad light part, extending on to and behind the forearm, is seen 
immediately behind the tympanum, above which it is continued as a light line to the eye. 
The posterior area of the flanks and the anterior portion of the thighs marbled or irregularly 
streaked with black and white. Limbs cross-barred. Below dirty yellowish grey : breast 
marbled with dirty white and dark brown : the thighs spotted with black. 
In an other specimen (No. 1017) the skin above and below is considerably darker : there 
is also a light vertebral line starting from just behind the head and continued as far as the 
coggygeal region. In the third specimen, which is much smaller than the other two, a light 
vertebral line is also present : and there is besides a dark chevron-shape patch between the 
eyes. In this small specimen the glandulation on (he back is indistinct. 
Length from tip of snout to vent 23 mm. 
Type, Cat. No. 1018, in the Transvaal Museum: cotypes 1017 and 1019. 
Anodontohyla boulengeri , F. Miiller. 
Our single small specimen can with certainty be assigned to this species. The tympanum, 
however, is fairly distinct : and the tongue which we described as rounded has, we find on 
re-examination, the faintest trace of being broadly nicked behind. The tibio-tarsal joint of 
the adpressed hind limb reaches a point between the tympanum and the eye. The skin 
above has slightly raised ridges which are beaded with rather large to moderate size 
tubercles. — P. A. M. 
