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These specimens correspond to normal individuals of this species, 

 and have heavy, high, and relatively thick cranial crests. The lateral 

 row of warts is well developed. 



No. 3526, one cotype collected by Deppe in Mexico. Head-and- 

 body length, 84 mm. ; underparts white with brown marbling; a dark- 

 colored individual with light blotches on upperparts; cranial crests 

 sharp-edged; parotoid glands sub triangular in outline; a lateral row 

 of minute warts; inner metatarsal tubercle small, but larger than the 

 outer. 



No. 3527, one cotype collected by Deppe in Mexico. Underparts 

 white, Avith dusky spots; upper{)arts light colored, with dark inter- 

 orbital band, dark spots and dark stripes; cranial crests sharp; inner 

 metatarsal tubercle small, but larger than the outer. 



No. 3532, one cotype collected by Deppe at Vera Cruz, Mexico. 

 Head-and-body length, 55 mm. Underparts white, with dark mar- 

 bling; upperparts dark, marbled with light colors; cranial crests 

 blunt-edged and rather thick; parotoid glands subtriangular in out- 

 line; a light-colored vertebral stripe and a light-colored interorbital 

 band. 



The type of Bujo granulosus (U.S.N.M. No. 2595) was collected 

 in 1851 by John H. Clark, a member of Col. J. D. Graham's party of 

 the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, somewhere along 

 the old wagon road that extended from Indianola to San Antonio, 

 Tex. Inasmuch as this name is preoccupied, Girard proposed Bu^o 

 nebulifer as a substitute name. The specimen (U.S.N.M. No. 2602) 

 figured by Baird in his report on the reptiles of the United States and 

 Mexican boundary came from New Braunf els, Comal County, Tex. 



Giinther's Bufo sternosignatus was based on three adult toads from 

 Venezuela and two half-grown individuals from Mexico. One of 

 these latter (B. M. No. 56. 3. 17. 25) was taken by Auguste Salle at 

 Cordoba in Vera Cruz, and the other, labeled as coming from Mexico, 

 was purchased from Parzudaki (B. M. No. 58. 9. 6. 13). The last- 

 mentioned specimen has a head-and-body length of 30 mm. Bou- 

 lenger ^° has shown that the two half-grown Mexican toads are iden- 

 tical with Bufo valliceps and has restricted the name Bufo sternosig- 

 natus to the Venezuela form. 



More recently Werner has proposed to recognize the Honduran form 

 as a distinct subspecies. The type of Bufo valliceps microtis (M. N. 

 B. No. 13200) is an adult female with a small tympanum and was 

 collected by Schliiter. The following notes were made on this speci- 

 men : Head-and-body length, 73 mm. ; transverse diameter of tympanum, 

 3.7 mm. ; transverse diameter of eye, 9 mm. ; cranial crests high, sharp- 

 edged; thin, sharp-edged, and nearly vertical preorbital and postor- 

 bital crests; parotoid glands protuberant; general coloration of upper- 



» Boulenger, Q. A., Catalogue of the Batracbla Salientia s. Ecaudata in the collection of the British 

 Museum, 2d edit., p. 323, 1882. 



