BUFO. 507 



Hah. This is the commonest toad throngliout India, Ceylon, and 

 Burma, ascending the Sikhim Himalayas to about 10,000 feet and 

 to 7000 feet in the Xilgiris. Its range extends to Southern China 

 and the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 



116, Bufo parietalis. 



Bufo paiietali.s, Boulemj. Cat. liatr. Sal. p. 312, pi. xxi, iig. 2. 



Head with \ery prominent ridges, viz. a canthal, a slight prse- 

 orbital, a siipi'aoi-liital, a postorbital, a parietal, and an orbito- 

 tympanic : parietal ridges ol)liquely directed inwards ; snout short, 

 blunt ; intororbital space broader than the upjier eyelid ; tympanum 

 distinct, two thirds the diameter of the eye. First finger extending 

 bej'ond second ; toes half webbed, with single subarticular tubercles ; 

 two moderate metatarsal tubercles ; no tarsal fold. The tarso- 

 metatarsal articulation reaches between the eye and the tip of the 

 snout. Upper surfaces covered with irregular warts ; parotoids 

 moderately elongate, elliptical, very prominent. Uniform brown 

 abo\'e ; beneath marbled \\ ith brown. Male with a subgidar vocal 

 sac. 



From snout to vent 3'25 inches. 



Ilah. Malabar. 



117. Bufo biporcatus. 



Piiit'i) biporcatus, Gravenh. Dclic. 3fi<s. Zuol. J'l-atisl. p. oli : BoK/eu//. 

 Cat. Batr. <Srt/. p. 311. 



Crown A\ith bony ridges, viz. a supraorbital and a parietal, form- 

 ing togethei' a straight or nearly straight line, and a short orbito- 

 tympanic ; snout short, subacuminate, w ith prominent canthus 

 rostralis ; interorbital space a little broader than the upper eyelid ; 

 tympanum very distinct, as large as the eye. First finger usually 

 not extending beyond second ; toes half or two-thirds webbed, with 

 single subarticular tubercles ; two moderate metatarsal tubercles ; 

 no tarsal fold. The tarso-metatarsal articulation reaches the tym- 

 panum or the eye. Upper surfaces with very prominent, conical, 

 spinous tubercles ; parotoids very prominent, small, subtriangular 

 or oval. Brownish above, marbled with darker ; beneath more or 

 less spotted with brown. Male with a subgular vocal sac. 



From snout to vent 3 inches. 



llab. Java and Borneo. Eecently found in the mountains of 

 Tenasserim by M. Fea. 



118. Bufo asper. 



Bufo asper, Gravenh. Delic. Mu.<. Zool. M-atisl. p. 6^; Gi'mfh. Repf. 

 B. I. p. 42a : liiiuIeiKj. Vat. liatr. Sal. p. :U:!. 



A broad supraorbital and a thick orbito-tym])anic bony ridge ; 

 snout short, obliquely truncated ; canthus rostralis angular ; loreal 



