306 BTTFONID.M. 



forwards along the body, the tarso-metatarsal articulation reaches in 

 front of the eye, or the tip of the snout. Upper parts with irregular, 

 distinctly porous warts ; parotoids very prominent, large, elongate, 

 at least as long as the head. Uniform brown. Male without vocal 

 sacs. 



Himalayas. 



B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 

 Dr. Hooker [P.]. 

 W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 

 W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 

 T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [P.J. 



41. Bufo melanostictus. 



Bufo melanostictus, G'unth. Cat. p. 61. 

 Bufo isos, G'unth. I. c. p. 62. 

 Bufo melanostictus, Schneid. Hist. Am ph. p. 216 ; Gravenh. Belie. 



p. 57 ; Cantor, Cat. Mai. Rept. p. 142 ; Girard, U.S. Expl. Exped., 



Herp. p. 92, pi. 5. f. 10-14 ; G'unth. Rept. Brit. Lid. p. 422 ; Stein- 



dachn. Novara, Amph. p. 42; Stolicz/ca, Proc. As. Soc. Iti70, 



p. 155. 

 scaber, Baud. Rain. p. 94, pi. 34. f. 1, and Rept. viii. p. 194 ; 



Tschudi, Rati: p. 88 ; Bum. % Bibr. p. 699 ; Schley. Abbild. p. 64, 



pi. 20. f. 2. 

 bengalensis, Band. Rain. p. 96, pi. 35. f. 1, and Rept. viii. 



p. 197 ; Lesson, in Belang. Voy. Ind. Or., Rept. p. 334. 



isos, Lesson, I. c. p. 333, pi. 7 ; Bum. Sf Bibr. p. 702. 



dubia, (Shaiv) Gray, Lnd. Zool. 



carinatus, Gray, I. c. 



gymnauchen, BleeJcer, Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. 1858, xvi. 



p. 46. 

 Phrynoidis melanostictus, Cope , Proc. Ac. Philacl. 1863, p. 357. 

 Bufo spinipes, (Fitzing.) Steindachn. I. c. p. 43, pi. 5. f. 6. 



Head with more or less elevated bony ridges, viz. a canthal, a 

 preorbital, a supraorbital, a postorbital, and a short orbito-tym- 

 panic ; snout short, blunt ; interorbital space much broader than 

 the upper eyelid ; tympanum very distinct, at least two thirds the 

 width of the eye. First finger extending generally, but not always, 

 beyond second ; toes at least half webbed, with simple subarticular 

 tubercles ; two moderate metatarsal tubercles ; tarsal fold none 

 (sometimes present, according to Stoliczka). The hind limb being 

 carried forwards along the body, the tarso-metatarsal articulation 

 reaches the tympanum or the eye. Upper surfaces with more or 

 less prominent, generally spiny, warts ; parotoids very prominent, 

 kidney-shaped or elliptic, more or less elongate. Yellowish or 

 brownish above, the spines of the warts and the ridges of the head 

 generally black ; beneath immaculate or more or less spotted. 

 Male with a subgular vocal sac. 



E. Indies ; S. China. 



a. Hgr. Canton. Haslar Coll. 



b-c. c? & hgr. Hongkong. J. C. Bowring, Esq. [P.]. 



