142 DISCOGLOSSID/E. 



2. BOMBIXATOR 1GNEUS. 



(Plates V and VI.) 



Linnasus, Faun. Suec, p. 94 (1746). 



? Bana variegata, Linnaeus. Syst. Nat., ed. 10, p. 211 (1757). 



Bana bombina, Linnaeus. Faun. Suec, ed. 2, p. 101 (1761), and 

 Syst. Nat, ed. 12, i, p. 355 (1766). 



Bufo igneus, Laurenti, Syn. Rept., pp. 29 and 129 (1768); 

 Schneider, Hist. Ainph., i, p. 187 (1799). 



Bufo ignicolor, Lacepede, Quadr. Ov., i, Syn. Meth., and p. 595 

 (1788). 



Bana rubeta. Lindaker, Abb. Bohm. Ges. Wiss., i, 1791, p. 112. 



Bombinator igneus, Merrem, Tent. Syst. Amph., p. 179 (1820); 

 Graven burst, Delic. Mus. Vratisl., p. 67 (1829); Schulz, 

 Faun. March, p. 470 (1845) ; Nilsson, Skand. Faun., Anrf., 

 p. 94 (1842); Collin, Naturh. Tidsskr. (3), vi, 1869, p. 307; 

 Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1886, p. 500, pi. 1, fig. 2 ; Heron- 

 Royer, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1887, p. 640, pi. xii; Bou- 

 lenger, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1888, p. 174; Wolterstorff. 

 Zeitschr. f. ges. Naturw., lvi, 1889, p. 29, and Jabrb. Ver. 

 Magdeb., 1S90, p. 318; Heron-Royer, Bull. Soc. Et. Sc. 

 Anders (2), xx, 1891, p. 201; Mehely, Zool. Anz., 1891, 

 p. 269, and Math. Term. Kozl. (Budapest), xxiv, 1S91, p. 558, 

 pi. i ; Erwin Schulze, Schr. Nat. Ver. Harz, vi, 1891, p 40; 

 Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1891, p. 621. pi. xlvii, fig. 4; 

 Mehely, Math. Nat. Ber. Ungarn, x, 1892, p. 61, pi. iv ; 

 Werner, Rept. Amph. Oesterr.-Ung., p. 109 (1897). 



Bombinator igneus, part., Bonaparte, Icon. Faun. Ital., Rett. 

 Anf. (1838); Schreiber, Herp. Eur., p. 95 (1875). 



Bombinator bombinus, Gluckselig. Lotos, i, 1851, p. 224 ; Bedriaga, 

 Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc, 1889, p. 581; Sasserno, Boll. Mus. 

 Torin., iv, 1889, No. 68; Diirigen, Deutschl. Ampb., p. 552, 

 pi. ii, figs. 3 and 4 (1S97). 



Vomerine teeth in two roundish or transversely oval 

 groups, close together just behind the level of the 



Fig. 54. Fig. 55. 



Open mouth. Upper view of head. 



choanaa. Openings of the Eustachian tubes minute. 

 Tongue moderately large, circular, comparatively 

 thin, entirely adherent. 



