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Genus NECTOPHRYNE, 

 Buchholz & Peters, MB. Ak. Berl. 1875, p. 202. 



Pupil horizontal Tongue elliptical, entire, free belaud. Tym- 

 panum distinct or absent. Fingers and toes webbed, the tips dilated 

 into regular disks. Outer metatarsal united. Xo omosternum ; 

 sternum cartilaginous. Diapophyses of sacral* vertebra strongly 

 dilated. Sacral vertebra articulating with coccyx by two condyles. 

 Terminal phalanges "["-shaped. 



Distribution. One species inhabits the Cameroons, West Africa, 

 a second Borneo, and a third Malabar. 



103. Nectophryne tuberculosa. 



1'edostibes tuberculosus, Gilnth. P. '/,. <S'. 187o, p. o7t>, pi. Ixiv, tig. C. 

 Nectophryne tuberculosa, Eoidauj. Cat. Batr. Hal. p. 280. 



Habit moderately slender. Head moderate : snout subacuminate ; 

 loreal region vertical ; interorbital space as broad as the upper 

 eyelid ; tympanum distinct, one third the width of the eye. Fin- 

 gers moderate, depressed, webbed at the base, first half the length 

 of second ; toes moderate, nearly entirely webbed ; tips of fingers 

 and toes dilated into broad truncated disks, those of toes rather 

 smaller than those of fingers ; subarticular tubercles small : two 

 small, flat metatarsal tubercles ; no tarsal fold. The hind limb 

 being carried forwards along the body, the metatarsal tubercles 

 reach to between the eye and tip of the snout. Skin of upper 

 parts tubercular, the largest tubercles being arranged along each 

 side of the back. Brownish grey above, sides darker ; a white 

 baud from below the eye to the axil ; another white longitudinal 

 band in the lumbar region ; beneath dark-spotted. Male with a 

 subgular vocal sac. 



From snout to vent 1*4 inches. 



Hob. Malabar. 



Genus BUFO, 

 Laurenti, Syn. Kept. p. 25 (part.), 1768. 



Pupil horizontal. Tongue elliptical 

 or pyriform, entire, free behind. Tym- 

 panum distinct or hidden, seldom absent. 

 Fingers free ; toes more or less webbed ; 

 the tips simple or dilated into small disks. 

 Outer metatarsals united. Omosternum 

 generally absent ; 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. Sacral 

 vertebra articulating with coccyx by two 

 condyles. Terminal phalanges obtuse 



Fig. 130. or 



Open mouth of Bufo asper. 



