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Bufo scaber, Latreille. 



Bufo scaber, Daudin, Hist. Rept. 



Bufo bengalensis, Dauclin, Hist. Rept. 



Le Crapaud de Bengale, Lesson. 



Bufo dubia, Shaw, apud Gray, Illustr. Ind. Zool. 



Bufo carinatus, Gray, Illustr. Ind. Zool. 



Bufo inelanostictus, apud Gravenhorst. 



Bufo scaber, Tschudi. 



" Kakong," " Katak puru," of the Malays of the Peninsula. 



Above earthy brown, grey or buff, in some marbled with black ; 

 lips, parotids, crests of the head, points of the tubercles, and last joints 

 of fingers and toes : sooty, or black. Beneath buff, in some vermicu- 

 lated with black. Iris golden brown ; pupil transversely rhombic. 

 Habit. — Malayan Peninsula and Islands. 



Java, Tenasseriin, Bengal, Coromandel. 

 In the Malayan countries this species swarms in valleys and hills. 

 It has in a slight degree the power of changing its colours, and it utters 

 a chirping, plaintive sound. The largest individuals examined, mea- 

 sured — 



Length of the head 1 i»c h - 



Ditto ditto trunk, • • 3 



Ditto ditto anterior extremities, 2| 



Ditto ditto posterior extremities, 4| 



Gen. IIyl;edactylus, Tschudi. 

 Tongue an oval disk, thick, free only at the lateral margins. Palatal 

 teeth. Eustachian tubes very minute. No parotids. Four free fingers 

 with the terminal joint widened, truncated. Five toes united at the 

 base by a very small membrane, the terminal joint not widened ; sole 

 with two soft tubercles between tarsus and metatarsus. Sacral trans- 

 versal processes forming triangular palettes. 



HyL.EDACTYLUS B1VITTATUS, N. S. 



Upper parts and outside of extremities brownish olive with distant 

 small black spots. Head from the muzzle to the middle of the orbit 

 whitish. A broad whitish band edged with black from the posterior 

 angle of the eye, along each side to the loins. A shorter, oblique, 

 similar band from the posterior angle of the eye. Beneath whitish, 

 vermiculated with brown. The throat of the males black. Iris golden 

 brown ; pupil transversally rhombic. 

 Habit. — Malayan Peninsula. 



