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Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
R. sugillatus Cope, which in the British Mus. Cat. is placed as a possible 
synonym of microns Glinth., appears to be the same as nasutaC\mt\v. judging 
from Mr. Boulenger’s key ; Cope’s original description is inaccessible to me. 
Cassina senegcdensis D.B. — There are several Cape Division records 
which, being unique, require confirmation — they come from the same 
collector (De Souza)— Cassina senegalensis , Megalixalus spinifrons , and 
Rappia marmorata. 
Pkrynomantis annectens Wern. — The published data regarding this 
species leaves much to be desired. The type and only known specimen 
is 16 mm. long, whereas P. bifasciata reaches three or four times that length. 
The author of the species remarks that it closely resembles a Cacosternum 
in that the head and body are considerably depressed. The actual colour 
characters given are : above light-grev, having in the frontoparietal region 
a black spot which is prolonged anteriorly towards the eyes on either side 
and behind is in contact with a dark angular crossband in the shoulder 
region, the angle directed forwards ; a large dark spot on each side of the 
coccyx, the two spots touching behind ; hind legs dark with light cross- 
bands ; lower surfaces dirty white, belly with a darker W-shaped design. 
Cacosternum. — Dr. Werner has also noticed that in this genus the 
sternum has a bony style, and it appears that the error of the original 
description in this respect led him to describe namaquense as a distinct 
species. Apparently it has not been taken in German South-West Africa, 
but there are several records from Little Namaqualand. 
Iiemisus guttatum. — Umgeni (W. W. Cato), Durban Museum. 
Breviceps. — Mr. Boulenger has added a good discriminating character 
in the length of the fourth finger. 
B. pentJieri Wern. has to be abandoned, as Dr. Werner himself reduces 
it ; but I doubt if he is correct in placing it as a synonym or verrucosus. 
As regards adspersus Pet., this species was merely indicated rather than 
described by Peters and I suspect that it is not the same form as is called 
adspersus by Mr. Boulenger. Peters’ distribution for the species was 
Transvaal and Damaraland, and all the Transvaal material I have seen 
agrees with mossambicus rather than gibbosus ; at the same time there 
is no reason to suppose that Peters’ specimens differed so much from 
gibbosus in respect to the eye character as is represented in Mr. Boulenger’s 
key, as Peters would certainly have noticed so obvious a distinction. One 
is inclined to suspect that the form so named by Mr. Boulenger is really 
the same as his macrops, especially as he records adspersus from Port 
Nolloth, a locality from which I have received typical specimens of macrops. 
It seems very probable that pentheri Wern. and adspersus Pet. are the 
same and I cannot separate them from mossambicus Pet. 
As for verrucosus, it does not seem advisable to completely unite the 
species with gibbosus, as the typical gibbosus of the Cape Peninsula and 
verrucosus of Knysna are so very distinct ; no doubt, however, various 
verrucose forms of breviceps have been wrongly recorded under this name. 
In the records of gibbosus and mossambicus (Boulenger) there is, I think, 
evidence of a probable confusion (cp. the Durban and Barberton records). 
The Kimberley species which I provisionally referred to pentheri is 
presumably the same as adspersus Pet. and the same form occurs at 
