256 BATRACHIA SALIENTIA. 
Crown of the head with projecting ridges, branched behind, the postorbital branch 
forming a right angle with the main (supraorbital) ridge, and the parietal branch being 
rather swollen, short, bent inwards. Snout short, vertically truncate. Zympanum 
hidden; parotoid narrow, oblong. Upper parts with large tubercles, lower coarsely 
granular. ‘First and second fingers equal in length; toes half-webbed ; two metatarsal 
tubercles; a short tarsal fold. Sides marbled with black; upper lip with a white 
margin below the eye; a yellowish vertebral line. (After Brocchi.) 
22. Bufo veraguensis, 
Bufo veraguensis, Schmidt, Denkschr. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 1858, p. 258, t. 2. fie. 20, t. 3. fig. 21 ; 
Peters, MB. Ak. Wiss. Berlin, 1873, p. 618. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Peters), Veraguas (Schmidt). 
Crown of the head with a projecting ridge round the eye, from which a short 
parietal crest starts obliquely inwards; interorbital space concave. Tympanum hidden. 
Parotoids of moderate size, prominently oblong. Upper parts tubercular, a series of 
larger tubercles on each side of the back. Fingers very slender, first shorter than 
second. Toes entirely webbed, but the web is deeply notched. No tarsal fold. 
Greyish above, marbled with blackish-brown ; lighter below. (After Schmidt.) 
This apparently well-characterized species does not seem to have been recognized 
since the time of its discovery. 
23. Bufo auritus. 
Bufo auritus, Cope, Journ. Ac. N. Sc. Philad. viii. p. 99, t. 23. fig. 4 (1875). 
Hab. Costa Rica, Talamanca (Cope). 
Crown of the head flat, bounded by a vertical supraciliary ridge, forked behind. 
Snout narrow, produced, the nostrils being nearer to each other than to the orbit. 
Anterior half of the tympanum distinct. Parotoids quite small, surmounted by several 
dermal spines. Tubercles of the skin small, spinulose, most numerous on the sides, 
absent below. Singers very slender, the two inner subequal. Toes half-webbed. No 
tarsal fold; solar and plantar tubercles insignificant. Brown; a square patch on the 
crown, an oblique band from the occiput towards the side, and a spot on each side of 
the sacrum, black ; abdomen marbled with black. (After Cope.) 
Length of body . . . . . . . . hh «O81 millim. 
- forefoot. 2. . 2... 2... 10 =, 
» hindlimb . ........ =... 88 
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0 hind foot. . . 2... . . eee 
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