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BULLETIN 58, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, 



small transverse oval groups behind the level of the choanas; 

 tongue oval, truncate behind, large, adherent all around; snout flat, 

 rounded, without canthus rostralis; nostrils on top of snout about 

 halfway between eye and tip of snout, distance from each other 

 equaling the interorbital space, which is narrower than the upper 

 eyelids; no t^inpanum; parotoid gland long, narrow, indistinct; no 

 gularsac; a very faintly indicated gular fold; fore leg well developed, 

 longer than half the length of head and bod}^; fingers short, depressed, 

 first shortest, third longest, second and fourth of about equal length; 

 no subarticular tubercles, but a large and distinct inner palmar pad 

 and a smaller indistinct outer one; a large patch of horny nuptial 

 excrescences on the inner side of the fore arm, and smaller patclies 

 on the inner side of the large palmar pad, and of first, second, and third 

 toes ; when hind leg is carried forward along the side, the heel reaches 



Figs. 39-43.— Bombina orientalis. IJ X nat. size. 39, top of head; 40, side of head; 41, open 

 mouth; 42, underside of right hand showing nuptial excrescences; 43, foot. No. 17522, 



u.s.n.m. 



the corner of the mouth and tarso-metatarsal joint slightly beyond 

 the tip of the snout; 'tibia equals distance from base of inner meta- 

 tarsal tubercle to tip of longest toe; heels just meet when the femurs 

 arc placed at right angles to the axis of the body; toes short, wel)bed 

 nearly to their tips, webs deeply excised, third toe longer than fifth; 

 no subarticular tubercles; inner metatarsal tubercle small and weakly 

 developed, no outer tubercle; no nuptial excrescences on toes; upper 

 surface covered with closely set and irregularly arranged prominent 

 tubercles of varying size, all sprinkled over with minute, dark brownish 

 points and each surmounted by one or more horny spines, the base 

 of which is pale and the tip blackish brown; underside smooth, with 

 the posterior part of the belly and j^roximal parts of femurs somewhat 

 rugose; outer side of sole of feet and underside of base of fifth toe 

 with spines like the upper side. Color (in alcohol) above dark drab- 



