4. bufo. 305 



tho eye and the nostril in the female. Upper parts with very pro- 

 minent, spinous, indistinctly porous warts; parotoids very prominent, 

 oval, oblique, rough ; lower surfaces covered with minute granules 

 intermixed with larger spinous ones. Uniform brown, lighter 

 beneath, immaculate or with indistinct spots. Male without vocal 

 sac. 



W. Africa. 



a. S . Fernando Po. (Type.) 



b. Yg. . Gaboon. 



c. $ ? Sir A. Smith [P.]. 



38. Bufo taitanus. 



Bufo taitanus, Peters, Mori. Bert. Ac. 1878, p. 203, pi. 2. f. 9. 



Crown without bony ridges ; snout rather prominent ; tympanum 

 hidden. Fingers and toes short, tho latter shortly webbed ; two 

 small metatarsal tubercles ; no tarsal fold. Upper surfaces covered 

 with prominent warts ; parotoids Hat and elongate. Dark yellowish 

 brown, with irregular longitudinal and transverse black spots ; 

 limbs irregularly barred ; belly marbled aud spotted with black. 



Taita, E. Africa. 



39. 



Bufo sikkimensis. = <$ . -^ 1 ^^t^ca-ya^rT^<-^. 



B ombimitor s ikkiman s i s, Bh/th, Jmirti — -Is iSV. TT.iii. p, 300. 

 Seutijjoj nililiiin i' n.'i -, Th mhnltt , Cut . Kept . At , Sue . .Mut , 1 . Sfi . S , p . S3 . 

 Bufo sikkimensis, Ando t <o. Proo , Zuol , Son, 1821, p — 2lii; Stoliczka, 

 Proc. As. Soc. 1874, p. 112. 



Crown without bojiy ridges ; snout short, rounded ; tympanum 

 hidden. Spes nearly Mialf webbed. Upper surfaces covered with 

 small pointed tubercles ;"parotoids small or moderate. ''Upper side of 

 back and limbs ashy or olive, with numerous more or less confluent 

 vinaceous brown spots; parotoids and the large tubercles distinctly 

 reddish; a few brown spots on the sides of the head ; below pale 

 yellowish throughout, usually densely marbled with olive-brown. 



H i ' ling i i i 1 1 1 > ■ with two ] lute like eallojition on cither aide uf th e 



t l i or i iM. th i eklv li t lidded — villi — minute dui ' lt - brriwn points, — inui ' i 

 oui'faou of tho thi'uo innop fingoro with oimilar rugooitioo. 



Himalayas. 



40. Bufo himalayanus. (Plate XX.) 

 Bufo melanostictus, var. himalayanus, Gunth. Mept. Brit. Ltd.]). 422. 



Physiognomy of B. vulgaris. Crown deeply concave, with low, 

 blunt supraorbital ridges; snout short, blunt; interofbital space 

 broader than the uppi r eyelid ; tympanum very small, rather indis- 

 fcini t. First finger not extending beyond second ; toes half or two- 

 thirds webbed, with simple subarticnlar tubercles; two moderate 

 metatarsal tubercles ; no tarsal fold. The hiud limb being carried 



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