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are often captured in it by means of fish-hooks baited with fiesh. In the vicinity of Cape Town 
specimens are to be procured in abundance. 
PYXICEPHALUS DEL ALAND IT, Tschudi, Classif. Batrach, Mem. Societ. Nat. Neucli, t. n. p. 84. 
Bum. et Bib. Erpet. Gener. tom. viii. p. 445, pi. 87, fig. 1, 1 «> 1 b. 
Occurs throughout the whole of Southern Africa, but nowhere abundantly. I obtained 
specimens close to Cape Town, and others near to the Tropic of Capricorn. 
PYXICEPHALUS NATALENSIS, n. s. 
Figure oval. Head rather small; hindhcad not so wide as the body. Nose narrow, and 
nearly pointed; palpebral shield prominent and convex; rostral canthus obtuse ; nostril in the hue of 
the canthus, about midway between eye and apex of nose. Tongue subcircular; hinder half free an 
deeply bifid. Eyes large. Tympanum circular, moderately large, and situated immediately under 
and behind the external angle of eye ; its surface slightly rugose or subgranular. Back convex ; sides 
protuberant and arched; hinder extremity of body contracted. Anterior ^ extremities «-rt rather 
slender, and of equal thickness : toes free ; the first, or outermost, and the third of equal len tl , 
innermost slightly longer ; the second considerably longer. Hinder extremities long and moderat e ly 
robust; toes connected at base by a rudimentary web; the outermost toe not quite so tog «8 the 
second; the fourth considerably shorter; the innermost, or fifth, very short; the second double the 
length of the first; and each with a globular tubercle under each joint. Skm generally smooth, 
hinder part of back, and posterior, and under surface of thighs, granular. 1 be giouni co our f e 
upper surface of the head, the back, the sides, and the outer surface of the extremities, intermediate 
between yellowish white and yellowish gray, or a rusty yellowish gray, and variegated slightly with 
blackish green ; the variegations are a blackish green band, which surrounds the nose and extends along 
each side nearly to the hinder extremities, a short narrow transverse line on the anterior part of the 
back and a longitudinal one of the same kind on the middle of the back ; broad transverse bars on the 
outer surface of the extremities, and a curved dotted band across the posterior part of the back, the 
extremities of which join the lateral band described as continued from the nose ; m some specimens 
«hL appears a co, Jati.n of tie tad just mp.liota, but, -cad of beg co„ U „„o» co„», s of 
small spots. Under surface of body, and inner surface of extremities, pale ochre-b ellow. Le D t 
from nose to anus, 1 inch 9 lines ; of anterior extremities to the point of the longest toe, lines of 
posterior extremities, 2 inches 1 line. In this species the head in front of the eyes is considerably 
longer, and narrow in proportion, than in Pyxiccphalus Belalandii , the position ot tie nostn 
different; and the body, for its length, is much less bulky. 
Inhabits the country to the eastward of the Cape Colony, more particulaily the districts in the 
neighbourhood of Port Natal. 
STENORHYNCHUS, n. g. 
Ch. Ben. Teeth of upper jaw small and thinly set. Tongue large, ovate, and slightly bifid 
behind- the last third free. No palatal teeth. Tympanum invisible. Opening of Eustachian tubes 
very small. Back and sides warty. Toes of anterior extremities free ; of posterior, hall-webbed. 
