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Family BUFONIDAE 



Genus BUFO Laurenti 



1768. Bufo Laurenti, Synopsis reptilium, p. 25 (type, B. vulgaris). 



The "common" toad of Hispaniola, so long known as Bufo gutturosus, 

 is far less rare than the Puerto Rican form, which has occasioned so 

 much active search. The validity of the application of the name had 

 apparently not been questioned, in spite of the accessibility to speci- 

 mens in Europe and in this country. 



BUFO GUNTHERI. new species 



Figures 1, 2 



1829. Bufo strumosus Gravenhorst, Deliciae musei zoologici Vratislaviensis, 

 p. 59, pi. 9, fig. 3 (not of Daudin, 1802). — Dumeril and Bibron, Erpetologie 

 generate, vol. 8, p. 716, 1841 (part, specimens from "Saint Domingue" col- 

 lected by A. Ricord). 



1858. Bufo gutturosus Gunther, Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia in the 

 collection of the British Museum, p. 67, pi. 5, fig. B (St. Domingo, Hayti) 

 (not of Latreille, 1801). — Boulenger, ibid., ed. 2, p. 324, 1882. — Garman, 

 Bull. Essex Inst., vol. 19, p. 16, 1887 (Port au Prince, Hayti). — Fischer, 

 Jahrb. Hamburg Wiss. Inst., vol. 5, p. 24, 1888 (Cape Haytien, Hayti). — 

 Muller, Verh. Naturf. Ges. Basel, vol. 10, pt. 1, p. 200, 1892 (Cape Hayti).— 

 Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 44, No. 2, p. 241, 1914; Zoologica, 

 vol. 11, No. 4, p. 75, 1930; vol. 19, No. 3, p. 91, 1933; Bull. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., vol. 82, No. 2, p. 97, 1937. — Schmidt, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. 44, art. 2, p. 7, 1921; Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin 

 Islands, New York Acad. Sci., vol. 10, pt. 1, p. 29, 1928.— Nieden, Das 

 Tierreich, Anura I, p. 187, 1923. — Mertens, Senckenbergiana, vol. 20, 

 No. 5, p. 332, 1938; Publ. Inst. Cient. Dommico-Aleman, vol. 1, p. 82, 

 1939.— Boker, Publ. Inst. Cient. Dommico-Aleman, vol. 1, p. 16, 1939. 



1863. Phrynoidis gutturosus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1862, p. 358. 



Diagnosis. — Head with bony ridges; a tympanum; upper eyelid 

 normal ; supraorbital and postorbital ridges forming together a more or 

 less regular curve; edge of jaws not dilated horizontally; snout promi- 

 nent, relatively wide and thick; subnasal and labial crests very weak; 

 a tarsal fold ; pustulose warts confined to anterior part of back. 



Type. — U.S.N.M. No. 59081, an adult female from Port-au-Prince, 

 Haiti, collected by Celestino Bencomo in 1916. 



Description of the type. — Top of head bony, with very large crests 

 enclosing a deep hollow between the orbits, the height of the supra- 

 orbital crest being about 4 mm. above the intcrorbital space and 2 mm. 

 above the eyelid; a heavy orbital crest completely encircling the eye, 

 nearly parallel with its fellow above the eye, most prominent behind 

 the eye, but becoming less pronounced below, with a prominent supra- 

 tympanic crest projecting from it posteriorly and ending in a rounded 

 knob above and behind the ear; can thus rostralis with a comparatively 

 weak, low crest, which joins the orbital crest; a slight, poorly developed 



