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Show 1900.] BATRACHIANS AND REPTILES OP THE GABOON. 435 PlPIDjE. 4. HYMENOCHIRUS BOETTGERI Tornier. Xenopus boettgeri, Tornier, Kriechth. Deutsch-Ost-Afr. p. 163, fig. (1896). Hymenochirus boettgeri, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (6) xviii. 1896, p. 420, and (7) iv. 1899, p. 122; Eidewood, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxvii. 1900, p. 454, pi. xxxi. Hab. German East Africa ; Gaboon. In recently recording the occurrence of this extraordinary Batrachian on the Benito Biver, I have pointed out that the absence of teeth necessitates its removal from the Dactylethriclce to the Pipidce. My notes on the skeleton have been corrected and supplemented by Dr. Eidewood in the paper quoted above, dealing with the hyoid and larynx and the carpus. BUPONID^;. 5. B U F O TUBEROSUS Gthr. Hab. Fernando Po, Camaroons, Gaboon. Several specimens were obtained on the Benito Biver by Mr. Bates. The upper parts are not always uniformly coloured; they are sometimes handsomely spotted or marbled with darker brown, and a yellow or crimson vertebral line is often present. 6. BUFO REGULARIS Eeuss. Hab. The whole of Africa with the exception of Barbary. I have, however, not myself examined specimens from the Gaboon and there were none in the collection made by Mr. Bates. 7. BUPO LATIFRONS, sp. n. (Plate XXVII. fig. 1.) Crown without bony ridges; snout short, blunt; interorbital space slightly concave, broader than the upper eyelid; tympanum distinct, three-fifths the diameter of the eye. First finger much longer than second; toes half-webbed, with single subarticular tubercles • two rather small metatarsal tubercles ; a tarsal fold. The tarso-metatarsal articulation reaches the anterior border of tbe eye. Upper parts with irregular warts, some of which may be conical; parotoids elliptic, feebly prominent, rather indistinct. Olive-brown above, with or without a yellowish vertebral line, with more or less symmetrical black markings ; limbs with dark cross-bars; bright pink spots on the back of the thighs ; lower narts dirty white, throat greyish, breast with small greyish spots. From snout to vent 73 millim. Three specimens, females and young, from the Benito Biver (G. L. Bates). This species stands very near to B. regularis. It is distinguished by the broader interorbital region, the smaller tympanum, and the feebly prominent parotoid glands. |