SYSTEMATIC ACCOUNT OF THE SPECIES. 95 



BUFONIDAE. 



Key to the Species of Bufo. 



Top of head hard and bony, with high crests bounding a deep depression 



between the orbits empusut, p. 100 



Top of head flat or concave, with or without conspicuous upstanding crests, 

 b' Skin of head ossified with the oranium, crests present but not high, 



two or three bony knobs in cantha! and supraorbital regions pehacephalus, p. 98 



b- Head without crests 



c' Toes nearly fully webbed longinasus, p. 95 



c^ Toes with but a trace of web ramsdeni, p. 96 



2. Bufo longinasus Stejneger. 

 Plate 13, fig. 1. 

 Palmer's Toad. 



Diagnosis: — A small toad having no cranial bony ridges ; first finger shorter 

 than second; toes nearly fully webbed; skin smooth, pustulous, but without 

 asperities; snout conical, projecting, pointed, with the nostrils near the tip, 

 parotoids enormous, their length almost equalUng their distance from the groin. 



Description:— Type. Adult cf U. S. N. M. 27,419. Cuba: Pinar del 

 Rio City, near El Guama, 9 March, 1900. William Palmer and J. H. Riley. 



"Head and body depressed, nearly flat above; snout concave along median line, coni- 

 cal, projecting, pointed; nostrils near the tip of snout and close together; canthus rostralis 

 rounded; interorbital \\idth much greater than width of upper eyelid; t\anpaniim indis- 

 tinct, about half the diameter of the eye; first finger shorter tlian second, with a pad of dark 

 brown nuptial asperities on top and side of basal portion; tips of fingers and toes slightly 

 swollen; toes nearly fully webbed; subarticular tubercles well developed, double; inner 

 metatarsal tubercle moderate, not prominent, outer conical; a tarsal fold, the distal end of 

 which resembles the inner metatarsal tubercle; tibio-tarsal articulation of hind leg extended 

 fonvard along the side of the body, reaches halfway between insertion of fore leg and tym- 

 panmn; skin above smooth with irregular smooth, distinctly pitted pustules separated pos- 

 teriorly and on sides by anastomosing furrows; parotoids enormous, their length almost 

 equaling their distance from the groin, flat, descending on sides below the level of the t\in- 

 paniun, deeply pitted; throat longitudinally WTinkled on breast and belly, and underside of 

 femurs coarsely granulated. Color (in alcohol) above, dark purplish maroon; underneath, 

 including the upper lip, a narrow space above the insertion of the arm, and tlie internal half 

 of the upper side of hands and feet white; a few dark pvirplish brown specks on lips, chest, 

 and tibia and a longitudinal mark of the same color in front of insertion of fore legs. Total 

 length, tip of snout to vent, 2.5. .5 mm. . . . Length of hind limb from vent to tip of longest 

 toe 32 nmi." Stejneger, Proc. U. S. N. M., 1905, 28, p. 765-767. 



