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free and bifid, anteriorly somewhat pointed, with a small distinct wart on each side, a little 
behind the apex. Colour of upper parts, in a specimen preserved in spirits, pale greenish grey ; of 
under parts of body, and under surface of thighs, light reddish orange. Toes pale brownish red. 
Length 1 inch 3 lines. 
Inhabits the country to the eastward of the Cape Colony. The small globular wart on each 
side of the tongue, near its apex, constitutes a good diagnostic character. 
BUFO PANTHERINUS, Boie. Tschudi, Classif, Batrach, Mem. Societ Scienc. Nat. Neuch, tom. ii. 
p. 88. Bufo Arahicus, lluppel, Atl. Reis, Noerdl, Afrik, Rept. p. 20, tab. iii., fig. 2. Bufo 
regularis. Items. Mus. Senckenh, tom. i. page 60. 
This toad is found abundantly throughout the whole of Southern Africa, and specimens are 
easily procured in the vicinity of Cape Town, more especially after a fall of rain. 
BREVICEPS GIBBOSTJS, Merr. Tent. Syst. Amph. page 178. Bufo gibbosus, Daud. Hist. Rain. 
Gren. et Crap, page 80, plate 29, fig. 1, and plate 35, fig. 2. Engystoma dorsatum et granosum, Guv. 
Reg. Animal, 2nd edition, tom. ii. page 112, Bum. et Bib. Erpet. Gener. tom. viii. page 764. 
Regen-padda of the Cape Colonists. 
Specimens of this species are rarely obtained, and those I have seen were all procured in the 
districts towards Cape Town. 
BREVICEPS VERRUCOSUS, Rapp. Archiv. far Naturgeschichte, von Dr. Erichson, Band 1, 
fol. 291, taf. vi. fig. 5. 
Head scarcely distinct from the body, the v latter subglobular. Above dirty reddish brown, 
variegated with two or four rows of dull orange-yellow spots, more or less distinct ; under parts dirty 
greenish yellow ; a blackish blotch on each side of head below the angle of the mouth. Surface of 
skin warty. Pupil transversely ovate. Iris coppery-green. Length from 21 inches to 3 inches. 
Inhabits the whole of Southern Africa ; but specimens arc seldom procured. It lives in holes 
or burrows in the ground, from which it emerges before or during rain, and on such occasions croaks 
loudly ; hence it is known in the Colony by the name of Rain Paddock. When irritated, it inflates the 
lungs to their utmost extent, and is then like a distended bladder, and discharges profusely from pores 
in the skin a tenacious acrid mucus. 
ENGYSTOMA GUTTATA, Rapp. Archiv. fur Naturgeschichte, von Dr. Erichson, Band. i. 
fol. 219, taf. vi. figs. 3 and 4. 
Head small ; nose narrow, and nearly pointed. Body large, slightly depressed, and subcircular ; 
back convex. Colour of upper surface of body and outer surface of extremities, pale brownish red, 
variegated with small, pale sienna-yellow spots ; under parts yellowish white. 
Inhabits the south-eastern coast of Africa, particularly towards Port Natal. 
DACTYLETHRA CAPENSIS, Cm. Reg. Animal, 2nd edition, tom. ii. page 107, plate 7, fig. 3. 
Bum. et Bib. Erpet. Gener. tom. viii. page 765, plate 92, fig. 1 & la. Xenophus Boiei, Wagler, 
Syst. Amph. page 199. Water-padda of the Cape Colonists. 
