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slightly smaller, less prominent; no tarsal fold; double subarticiilar 

 tubercles under all the fingers and under third and fourth toes ; upper 

 surface covered with numerous rounded tubercles of various sizes, 

 which show a tendency to a symmetrical arrangement, one longitudi- 

 nal series extending obliquely backward from the parotoid, while on 

 the back between the parotoids there is a chevron-shaped figure 

 pointing forward and a similar one on the lower back; the tubercles, 

 many of which are larger than the tympanum, are surmounted by a 

 conical brown point, becoming spiny on lower back and upper surface 

 of legs; underside strongly granular or tubercular, with similar, 



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Figs. 49-52.— BuFo Buro AsiATicus. Nat. size. 49, top of head; 50, side or head; 51, underside 

 OF hand; 52, underside of foot. No. 17517, U.S.N.M. 



though less developed, pointed asperities. Color (in alcohol) above 

 pale grayish olive, with some ill-defined longitudinal vermiculating 

 markings of an olive-buff color on both sides of back; a light band 

 similarly colored from parotoids obliquely backward to groin and 

 upper surface of limbs, with cross bands of the same tint; a dark 

 slate-colored band from posterior angle of eye curving down over 

 anterior lower portion of parotoid to insertion of arm, and a similarly 

 colored spot on the posterior outer aspect of the gland, continuing 

 backward below the lateral pale band and fading gradually into the 



