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Genus BUFO Laurenti 
Bufo LAURENTI, Syn. Rept. (1768) 25; WAGLER Syst. Amph. (1830) 
206; TSCHUDI, Class. Batr. (1838) 88; DUMERIL and Brsron, Erp. 
Gén. 8 (1841) 662; GUNTHER, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus. (1858) 55; 
CopE, Nat. Hist. Rev (1865) 102; BouLENGER, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. 
Mus. ed. 2 (1882) 281; STEJNEGER, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 58 (1907) 
55. 
Hylaplesia Bots, Isis (1827) 294; Prerers, Mon. Berl. Ak. (1867) 34. 
Phrynoides Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia (1863) 357. 
“Pupil horizontal. Tongue elliptic or pyriform, entire and 
free behind. Vomerine teeth none. Tympanum distinct or hid- 
den, seldom absent. Fingers free; toes more or less webbed, 
the tips simple or dilated into small disks. Outer metatarsals 
united. Omosternum generally missing; if present, cartilagi- 
nous; sternum a cartilaginous plate; sometimes more or less 
ossified along the median line. Diapophyses of sacral vertebra 
more or less dilated. Terminal phalanges obtuse or triangular.” 
(Boulenger.) 
Key to the Philippine species of Bufo Laurenti. 
a’. Crown without bony ridges;-toes with well-developed disks. 
b*, First finger shorter than second; toes half webbed; no metatarsal 
tubercles; two small parotoids on each side.... B. brevipes (Peters). 
b*. First finger much shorter than second, not any or but slight disks; 
toes webbed to the tips; no parotoids............ B. muelleri Boulenger. 
a’. Crown with bony ridges. 
b*. Cranial ridges distinct, curving behind eye to tympanum; no parietal 
ridges B. melanostictus Schneider. 
b*. Cranial ridges usually confluent with parietal ridges. 
B. philippinicus Boulenger. 
Bufo brevipes (Peters). 
Hylaplesia brevipes Peters, Mon. Berl. Ak. (1867) 34. 
Bufo brevipes BOULENGER, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus. ed. 2 (1882) 2875 
BoettcerR, Ber. Senck. Nat. Ges. (1886) 125; Casto pe ELERA, Cat. 
Fauna Filipinas 1 (1895) 452. 
Description of species ——Habit rather slender; crown without 
bony ridges; snout obliquely truncate with angular canthus ros- 
tralis; loreal region vertical; interorbital space broader than 
upper eyelid; tympanum rather distinct; sides of body thickly 
ornamented with tubercles; two small parotoid glands on each 
side, one on neck, the other near shoulder; foreleg reaches P0S- 
terior end of body; first finger very short, projecting like a small 
tubercle; tips of fingers dilated into well-developed disks; third 
finger 2 millimeters in length; palm of hand smooth; first three 
