214 



BUFONIDvE. 



Bufo colchicus, Eichwakl, 1. c. 



Bufo minutus, Schinz, Nat. Rept., p. 235, pi. xcvi, fig. 4 (1833). 



Bufo alpinus, Schinz, 1. c, p. 236, fig. 5, and Faun. Helv., p. 145 



(1837). 

 Bufo vulgaris japonicus, Schlegel, Fauna Japon., Rept., p. 106, 



pi. i'i (1836) ; Lataste, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1880, p. 66. 

 Bufo vinearum, Lesson, Act. Soc. Linn. Bord., xii, 1841, p. 61, 



pi. iv, fig. 1. 

 Bufo gargarizans, Cantor, Ann. & Mag. N. H., ix, 1842, p. 483. 

 Bufo commutatus, Steenstrup, Ber. 24. Vers. Deutsch. Naturf. 



Kiel, 1847. p. 134. 

 Bufo griseus, Hallowell, Proc. Ac. Philad., 1860, p. 506. 

 Bufo communis, Brucb, Wurzb. Naturw. Zeitschr., iii, 1862, 



p. 185. 

 Bufo japonicus, Camerano, Atti Ace. Torin., xiv, 1879, p. 884. 

 Bufo rubeta. var. robustior (Lataste), Bosca, Bull. Soc. Zool. 



France, 1880, p. 256. 

 Bufo sjielteus, Riviere, C. R. Assoc. Franc., xv, 1887, p. 453. 



Fig. 79. 



Upper view of head ( $ , Paris). 



Head once and one-fifth to once and two-thirds as 

 broad as lonp; • snout as lone* as or a little shorter 

 than the diameter of* the orbit, short and blunt, with 

 obtuse canthus and very oblique grooved lores ; 

 nostrils equally distant from the eyes and the tip of 

 the snout, or somewhat nearer the former ; eyes 

 nearer the tip of the snout than the angles of the 

 jaws ; interorbital space flat, in old specimens slightly 

 concave, its width at least equal to that of the upper 



