240 



BUFONID/E. 



Measurements (in millimetres). 



S 



1. Castlemaine Harbour, Ireland 



Robinson. 



2. Blackheath. 



3. Oporto : Allen. 



4. Ostend : Boulenger. 



5. Mesnil-St.-Blaise. Belgium : 



Boulenger. 



6. Alemtejo, Portugal : Gadow. 



Skeleton. — The skull differs from those of B. vul- 

 garis and B. riridis in the form of the fronto-parietals, 

 which are only about one-third as broad in front as 

 behind, and embrace a wide fontanelle, and in the 

 zygomatic process of the squamosal being more rudi- 

 mentary still. 



Fig. 89. 



Upper view of skull. 



The length of the vertebral column, to the base of 

 the urostyle, equals hardly once and one-third or once 

 and a half that of the skull in males, once and two- 

 fifths to once and two-thirds in females. Diapophyses 

 of third vertebra as long as second, of eighth or 



