HERPETOLOGY OP JAPAN. 



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The numerous synonyms based upon Indian and Malayan speci- 

 mens are omitted here. 



Description (figs. 58-61).— Adult female; U.S.N.M. No. 36498; 

 Sic. Coll. Mus., Tokyo, No. 26«; Taipa, Formosa; September, 1896; 

 Tsunasuke Tada, collector. Head with strongly developed bony crests, 

 involving the upper lip, a rostral ridge on end of snout from lip to 

 between nostrils, there bifurcating and continuing on canthus ros- 

 tralis, along supraorbital border to above the tympanum, forming 

 there a knob-like prominence and sending a branch downward along 

 the anterior border of the tympanum; a slight parietal spur indicated, 

 also a short anteorbital spur or crest; nostrils nearer the tip of the 





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Figs. 58-Gl.— BuFo MELANOSTicTus. Nat. SIZE. .'iS, top or head; 59, side of heap; 00, underside of 



hand; 01, UNDERSIDE OF FOOT. No. 36498, U.S.N.M. 



snout than the eye; interorbital space deeply concave, much wider 

 than upper eyelid, which is strongly tubercular and with thickened 

 glandular edges; t3^mpanum vertical, oval or almost pear-shaped, 

 separated from the orbit by a very narrow space, its longest diameter 

 about three-fourths the diameter of the eye; parotoids large, swollen, 

 kidney -shaped; first finger reaches considerably beyond second 

 which does not quite reach as far as fourth; an elongate inner and a 

 much larger outer palmar tubercle; subarticular tubercles single, 

 prominent; palm, underside, and edges of fingers with numerous 

 pointed tubercles, which, like all the other digital tubercles j^ind the 



