BUFO GARIEPENSIS.— Smith. 
Reptilia. — Plate LXIX. Fig. 2 & 2 a. 
B. superne viridi-flavus, maculis nigro-brunneis variegatus ; infra antice subflavus, abdominis parte 
posteriori regioneque pubica brunneo-rubris ; tympano subcirculari parvo ; glandulis pariotideis 
subcircularibus ; dorso tuberculis magnis sparso ; partibus inferioribus antice leevibus, postice granu- 
losis, abdomine parce maculis parvis subnigris notato. 
Longitudo e nasi apice ad anum 1 unc. 4 lin. 
Colour The upper and lateral parts of the head, the back, the sides of 
the neck, the sides of the body superiorly, and the outer surface of the extre- 
mities greenish yellow, clouded with pale reddish orange ; the upper surface 
of the head and the back variegated with moderately large, irregular shaped, 
liver-brown spots, and the extremities with narrow transverse bars of the same 
colour. The spots on the head are small, with the exception of four, one 
immediately behind each nostril, and one traversely on each eye-shield. The 
upper lip is crossed by three liver-brown bands, the hindermost close to the 
angle of the mouth ; the sides of the neck and parotid glands freckled with 
small, similar coloured spots. The under surface of the lower jaw, the breast, 
and the greater part of the belly, straw-yellow, the breast and anterior 
part rather sparingly freckled with minute blackish-green spots, the posterior 
part of the belly and the pubic region intermediate between buff orange and 
brownish red, the tint pale. Eyes deep blackish green, the pupil sur- 
rounded by a narrow brassy green ring. 
Form, &c. Figure rather full ; head short, conical, and anterior to eyes 
narrow nose rounded, the nostrils at its apex, openings directed outwards 
and forwards ; middle of head, between eyes, concave ; eye-shields prominent 
and arched ; eyes rather large, gape wide ; tympanum small, circular, and 
placed a little behind and below the outer canthus of the eye. Parotid glands 
subcircular, and in proportion large ^ surface poious. The anterioi extremi- 
ties slender, the toe next to the outermost rather the longest ; the other two 
