Bujo terrestris 135 



In 1826 (pp. 344, 345) and in 1835 (p. 109) Harlan gives the following: 

 "Char. — Above dark-brown, verrucose, with irregularly disposed fuscus, or 

 blackish spots, edged with white: beneath dirty white, granulated: sides pale, 

 spotted; legs barred, large oblong warts behind the eyes; a large blackish spot 

 posterior to the tympanum; head above canahculate; two tubercles on the 

 heel of each foot; a longitudinal, vertebral, shallow, groove. Length of the 

 body about 3 inches." 



Holbrook (1842, Vol. V, p. 7) gives its characters as: "Head large; snout 

 obtuse; superciHary ridges greatly elevated and terminating posteriorly in a 

 knob; upper jaw emaginate, lower furnished with a hook in front; parotoid 

 glands large, reniform, and reaching below the tympanum to near the shoul- 

 der; tympanum large; vocal vesicle internal; body above warty, dusky brown, 

 with a tinge of yellow; beneath granulated, dirty yellowish- white. Length 

 3 inches." Cope 1889 (p. 278) holds its definition to be "Frontoparietal 

 crests divergent, produced into a knob behind the short post-orbitals ; super- 

 tympanic well developed; head 3.5 to 4 times in length." 



Miss Dickerson (1926, p. 43) chooses for distinction "head long (three 

 and half times in total length); cranial crests greatly elevated and swollen 

 behind; underparts unspotted." In 1907 Brimley (p. 157) chooses "bony 

 ridges ending in a knob behind" for his key character. In 1926 he uses the 

 same with the added note of "color usually dark and breast unspotted." 



In 1914 Deckert (No. 9, p. 2) says "The toad itself, however, is dif- 

 ferently (from B. americanus) built, the head being wider and higher, and the 

 arms and legs shorter and more delicate. The eyes, also, are larger, and the 

 enormous bony knobs on the large heads of some old females give them a sort 

 of resemblance to species of the tropical cystignathoid toads Cemtophrys. 

 Unlike the latter, our toads are gentle creatures, living their lives of usefulness 

 in our farms and gardens." 



Boulenger (1882, pp. 309, 310) gave his Bufo lentiginosus musicus these 

 characters: ""Supraorbital ridges swollen behind and produced beyond the 

 angles of the postorbitals; subarticular tubercles generally simple, metatarsal 

 tubercles moderate." 



COLORATION OF SPIRIT SPECIMENS (191 2) 

 General color from buckthorn brown to almost black. Bright colored 

 forms have a prominent light vertebral band or line and a prominent oblique 

 Ught band from form of parotoid to the groin. In darker specimens the 

 lateral bands disappear before the vertebral line does. Many of the specimens 

 have both absent. The under-parts of one half of the adult series have the 

 breast and sides of the belly with fine spots like Holbrook's figure ('42, V, 

 fig. 11) while the other half have unspotted venters. 



STRUCTURAL CHARACTERS (WRITTEN IN 19 1 2) 



Cranial crest prominent; canthus rostalis low; preorbital ridge not ex- 

 tending below the level of the lower rim of the eye; supraorbital ridges 

 divergent and ending in elevated inward curved knobs which are not united 

 across the middle of the head by a flat bony rim except in one specimen. In 



