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Show 250 MR. G. A. BOULENGER ON SO U TH -AFRICAN [June 6, teetli (five in number)*, with X. clivii and A. calcaraius in the presence of a metatarsal " claw." These specimens, the larger of which measures only 39 millim., no doubt indicate a distinct species, for which I propose the name A . fraseri. P h a n e r o g l o s s a . 2. B ufo r eg u l a r is Reuss. Umfolosi Station, Hluhluwe Stream, Ngoye Hills, Wakkerstroom. 3. B ufo g r a n t i B lg r . Durban Road, Klipfontein. Since this species was described, in 1903, from numerous specimens obtained by Mr. Grant at Deelfontein, it has been rediscovered at Matjesfontein by Dr. W. F. Purcell, of the South African Museum. The male specimen which the British Museum has received from that institution measures 60 millim. from snout to vent and strikingly resembles a Bufo viridis. The interorbital space is as broad as the upper eyelid, the tympanum measures three-fifths the diameter of the eye, the first finger extends a little beyond the second, the tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the tympanum, and the subarticular tubercles under the toes are all single. The single male specimen found by Mr. Grant in a garden on Durban Road, near Cape Town, agrees very closely with the Matjesfontein Toad, but some of the subarticular tubercles under the toes are double. Another male, from Klipfontein, also has double subarticular tubercles. 4. B ufo a ng u stice p s A. Smith. Durban Road. Several specimens, the largest measuring 46 millim. from snout to vent. The first finger never extends beyond the second, the fold along the inner side of the tarsus is more or less distinct, and the subarticular tubercles of the toes are usually single, although there are occasionally two between the last phalanges of the fourth toe. Bufo dovibensis, from Dombe, Benguella, described by Barboza du Bocage in 1895 as a, close ally of B. angusticeps, is more nearly related to Smith's Bufo vertebralis, which, following Gunther, I have erroneously regarded as the young of B. carens. The examination of a small Toad found at Vredefort Road, Orange River Colony, by Major Barrett-Hamilton, and of which four specimens have been presented by him to the British Museum, has convinced me of my error. The breeding male, with large gular vocal sac, measures only 27 millim. from snout to vent, the female 35. In these specimens, the tympanum is close to the eye, * The vomer is single in X . lavis, mvelleri, and clivii, absent in X . calcaraius, Hymenocliirus, and Pipa. |