ALYTES. 



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Bombinator pachypas, becomes restricted to the hills. 

 It by no means avoids the dwellings of man, and may 

 be found in great numbers in old walls of villages as 

 well as in gardens and waste grounds of towns. It is 

 still to be met with in the Jardin des Plantes, where it 

 was first discovered in the middle of the last century. 



Four specimens are figured on PI. VII, viz. a male 

 from Paris, laden with eggs ; a female from Liege, on 

 the left hand ; a young albino from Geuevilliers near 

 Paris, reared by M. Lataste ; and on the right hand a 

 specimen from Valencia, Spain (var. hoscx). 



5. Alytes oisternasii. 

 (Plate VIII.) 



Alytes cisternasi, Boscji, An. Sue. Esp., viii, 1879, p. 217; Bou- 

 lenger, Cat. Batr. Ecaud., p. 449 (1882); Heron-Royer & 

 Van Bambeke, Arch. Biol., ix, 1889, p. 289; Bedriaga, Bull. 

 Soc. Nat. Mosc, 1889, p. 617, Ampb. Rept. Portug., p. 27 

 (1889), and Larves Batr. Portug., p. 1-41 (1891); Boulenger, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc , 1891, p. 624, pi. xlvii, fig. 8. 



Ammoryctis cisternasi, Lataste, C. R. Ac. Sc, lxxxviii, 1879, p. 

 983; Bosca, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1880, p. 252, and An. 

 Soc. Esp., x, 1881, pi. ii, figs. 1 — 6. 



Vomerine teeth in two transverse series, widely sepa- 

 rated from each other in the middle, behind the choanse ; 



these series often slightly oblique, 

 forming together an angle pointing 

 forwards. Tongue large, circular, 

 slightly free behind. 



Head large, moderately depressed, 



Fig. 64. 



much broader than long ; snout round- 

 ed, projecting, shorter than the dia- 

 meter of the orbit; canthus rostralis 

 rounded, loreal region grooved ; nos- 

 tril nearer the tip of the snout than 

 the eye ; eye large, very prominent ; 

 interorbital space broader than the upper eyelid, as 



Open mouth. 



