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eyelid, and greater than the distance between the 

 nostrils ; tympanum hardly half the diameter of the 

 eye, usually indistinct except anteriorly, sometimes 

 quite hidden under the tubercular skin (larger and 

 more distinct in specimens from Eastern Asia) ; 

 cleft of the mouth extending beyond the level of the 

 posterior border of the eyes. 



Fingers rather short, blunt or obtusely pointed ; 

 third longest, second and fourth equal and scarcely 

 shorter than the first; subarticular tubercles mostly 

 in pairs ; two large palmar tubercles, one larger and 

 rounded in the middle, and the other smaller and 

 oval at the base of the inner diofit. 



Hind limb moderately elongate; the tarso-meta- 

 tarsal articulation reaches the tympanum or the eye in 

 the male, the shoulder or the tympanum in the female ; 

 tibia considerably longer than the head, as long as 

 the thigh, the heels meeting or nearly meeting when 

 the limbs are folded at riffht angles to the rhachis. 

 Toes moderately elongate, depressed, nearly entirely 

 or at least two-thirds webbed in the breeding male, 

 one-half to two-thirds webbed in the female; the free 

 border of the web often scalloped or crenulate; sub- 

 articular tubercles small and in pairs, at least under 

 the fourth toe ; two large metatarsal tubercles, the 

 inner very prominent and oval, the outer flatter and 

 rounded. No tarsal fold. 



Upper surfaces covered with anastomosing wrinkles, 

 and irregular, more or less prominent, often spinous 

 warts, the pores of which may be very indistinct to the 

 naked eye. Japanese specimens are remarkable for 

 the greater prominence of the warts, which are very 

 spinous ; the Chinese have also the warts very pro- 

 minent, but often more elongate, as if two had 

 merged into one. A large, prominent, elliptical or 

 oval parotoid gland on each side behind the eyes, with 

 the inner border divergnno; behind ; the leno-th of 

 this gland contained once and one-sixth to once and 

 a half in the length of the head. Lower surfaces 



