70 BULLETIN 58, LTNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



BUFO RADDEI'/Strauch. 



1859. ? Bvfo rariabilis var. amurends Maack, Putesh. na Amur (p. 153) (Amur- 

 land). 



1859. Bitfo calamita Maack, Putesh. na Amur, (p. 153) (Amur Valley), (not of 

 Laurent!) . 



1876. Bufn raddei Strauch in Przewalski's Mongoliya i Strana Tungutov, II, Pt. 

 3, p. 53 (Chinese province of Ordos, and Alashan Desert). — Lataste, 

 Rev. Intern. Sci. (Paris), I, 1878 (p. 437); Bull. Soc. Zool. France, V, 

 1880, p. 69 (Peking; Chefu). — Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1880, p. 551 (Chefu; Amur). — Przewalski, Reisen in Tibet, 1884 (pp. 

 254, 257) (Gobi Desert, eastern part).-7-BoETTGER, Offenbach. Ver. 

 Naturk. 24-25 Ber., 1885, p. 163.— Mueller, Verb. Naturf. Ges. Basel, 

 VIII, Pt. 2, 1887, p. 258 (Khabarovka).— Stone, Proc. Phila. Acad., 

 1899, p. 183 (east. Mongolia). — Bedriaga, Przewalski Reise, Zool., Ill, 

 Pt. 1, 1899 (p. 42, pi. 1, figs. 1, la, 6).— Mehely, Zichy's Dritte Asiat. 

 Forschungsr. , II, 1901, p. 67 (North China between Daba and Khalgan; 

 Peking).— NiKOLSKi, Zap. Imp. Akad. Nauk, S. Peterburg, (8) XVII, No. 

 1, 1905, p. 372 (Eastern Siberia, Tibet, Ordos, Amur province, etc.). 



1882. Bnfo raddii Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., p. 294 (Sungatchi; 

 Chefu); Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), V, Feb. 1890, p. 141 (Valley of the 

 Amur; Dauria; Peking; Chefu). — Werner, Al)h. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., 

 (Muenchen) II KL, XXII, Pt. 2, 1904, p. 359 (Tsingtau, China). 



Description. — Adult male; U.S.N.M. No. 21394; Zagan Olui, 

 Eastern Siberia (figs. 53-57). — Snout rounded, with indistinct 

 canthus rostralis; loreal region but very slightly concave; nostrils 

 nearly equidistant l)etween eyes and tip of snout, their distance from 

 each other slightly less than the width of the interorbital space; 

 upper eyelid slightly wider than interorbital space; tympanum dis- 

 tinct, circular, its diameter about one-half that of the eye, distant 

 from the eye about two-thirds its diameter; parotoid glands large, 

 flat, of somewhat irregular outline, about twice as long as broad; 

 fingers rather short, first and second subequal, fourth very short, 

 not extending beyond the distal end of the basal phalanx of the 

 third; two large palmar tubercles, the outer one especially very 

 large and with, a conspicuous central prominence; inner palmar 

 tubercle as well as the first, second, and third fingers with pads of 

 dark brown nuptial asperities; subarticular tubercles single, except 

 one under first finger, which is semidivided; hind legs rather short; 

 heels scarcely meeting when folded legs are placed at right angles 

 to axis of body; toes about half webbed; subarticular tubercles 

 single; inner metatarsal tubercle very prominent, much shorter 

 than its distance from tip of first toe; outer metatarsal tubercle 

 small but very distinct, prominent; a sharp cutaneous fold along 

 the inner side of the tarsus from the inner metatarsal tubercle to 

 the heel ; a long prominent oval gland covering nearly the whole upper 



a For Dr. Gustav Ferdinand Richard Radde, late director of the museum in Tifiis, 

 who in 1855-60 explored southeastern Siberia. Born in Dantzig, November 27, 

 1831; died in Tifiis, March 15, 1903. 



