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Antals of the "Transvaal Museum. 
BATRACHIA SALIENTIA. 
A GLOSS A. 
Family PIPIDAE. 
Genus Xenopus, Wagl. 
Bonleng. B. M. Cat. Bair. Sal. 1882, p. 456. 
X. laevis , Daucl. 
Bouleng. 1. c. : Hewitt and Power, Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Africa, III, 1913, p. 175. 
14 examples from the Great Karas Mountains and District. Localities: 
1373,1374, Narudas Slid: 1375-1383, Narndas Nord (juveniles) : 1384, 
Kraiklnft (at 5000 feet) : 1385, Baviaanspoort ; 1386, in a spring at 
Groendoorn, Little Karas Mountains. 
All these were taken in more or less permanent pools of water. 
PH A NEB O GL OSSA FIRMISTEBNIA. 
Family ENGYSTOMATIDAE. 
Sub-Family ENGYSTOMATINAE. 
Genus Phrynomantis, Peters. 
Bouleng., Cat. Batr. 1882. p. 172: Werner, Rept. Amph. Schultzes Reise, B. 4, L. I, 1910, 
p. 294. 
Phrynomantis nctsuta , sp. nov. (pi. XIV, fig. 2). 
Description : habit stout : head very large and broad : head and body 
much flattened : snout acutely rounded, projecting well beyond the lower 
lip, almost one and a half times as long as diameter of orbit : nostril 
nearer the tip of the snout than the eye : inter-orbital space broader than 
the length of the upper eyelid. Tympanum visible, not very distinct, 
about half the diameter of orbit. 
Fingers free, moderate, their tips slightly expanded, but hardly what 
could be termed triangular : the sub-articular tubercles fairly prominent : 
several distinct small tubercles below the metacarpals of the second third 
and fourth fingers : the first finger much shorter than the second which 
does not extend as far as the fourth. Toes short, one quarter to one third 
webbed, their distal extremities not expanded : the inner metatarsal 
tubercle is moderate in size but prominent, being in fact more or less 
shovel-shaped : there is no distinct outer tubercle but in addition to the 
subarticular tubercles which are fairly prominent there are several small 
tubercles on the palmar surface. 
If the hind limb be carried forwards the tarso-metatarsal joint reaches 
just beyond the axilla but not beyond the shoulder : the fourth toe reaches 
a point about half way between the eye and the tip of the snout. 
Skin smooth. On each side a fairly prominent gland in the coccygeal 
region just above the cloaca. A glandular fold passes from the eye over 
the tympanum and loses itself behind the shoulder: between the tympanum 
and the shoulder this fold is much swollen. 
No cutaneous fold across the palate between the clioanae. A cutaneous 
fold across the chest between the shoulders is present. 
Colour : above dark chocolate brown, with reddish markings : below 
somewhat lighter, without the red markings. 
