4. bufo. 321 



the orbit. Skin nearly smooth above, except on the scapular and 

 iliac regions; parotoids quite small, subtriangular, oblique; a 

 lateral dermal fold. Green, with deep black spots ; throat and 

 thorax black. 

 E. Costa Rica. 



04. Bufo coniferus. 



Bufo coniferus, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 158. 

 Chilophryne conifers, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1863, p. 357. 



Crown with prominent ridges, viz. a canthal, a preorbital, a 

 supraorbital, a postorbital, a parietal, and a short orbito-tympanic ; 

 supraorbital ridges perfectly straight; parietal ridges' slightlv 

 directed inward; snout prominent; tympanum distinct, half the 

 size of the eye. Hind limb elongate. Toes extensively webbed ; 

 two large, flat, oval metatarsal tubercles : no tarsal fold. Dorsal 

 region with obtuse tubercles ; numerous elongate conic warts on the 

 sides, largest on a fold from parotoid to groin; parotoid very small, 

 not more than half the extent of the upper eyelid, studded with 

 conic warts. Brownish grey above, with a few large dark-brown 

 spots, which do not interrupt a median line. 



Turbo Begion, Colombia. 



65. Bufo auritus. 



Bufo auritus, Cope, Journ. Ac. Philad. (n. s.) viii. part 2, n 09 

 pi. 23. f. 4. • * ' * ' 



Crown flat, with prominent ridges, viz. a canthal, a supraorbital, 

 a postorbital, a straight parietal, and an orbito-tympanic ; tympanum 

 listinci in its anterior half. Fingers remarkably" elongate ; toes elon- 

 gate,half webbed ; no tarsal fold. The hind limb'being carried forwards 

 along the body, the tarso-metatarsal articulation reaches beyond the 

 tip of the snout. Tubercles of the skin small, spinulose, most 

 numerous on the .sides, wanting below ; parotoids quite small, 

 surmounted by several dermal spines. Colour brown: a quadrate 

 patch on vortex from orbits to occiput, an oblique band from I he 

 latter outw ards on each side, ami a spot on each lateral sacral region 

 black ; belly marbled with black. 



Costa Rica. 



'i'i. Bufo veraguensis. 



Bufo veraguensis, Giinth. Cat. p. 142. 

 Bufo Y.I., hmidt. Uenkschr. Ac. Wien, 1858, n 253 t 2 



I'. 20, & t. ::. f. 21. 

 Chilophryne veraguensis, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1863, p. :',". 



Crown concave, with obtuse bony ridges, viz. a supraorbital, a 



lital, an obliqne parietal, and an orbito-tympanic ; tympanum 



entirely hidden. Fingers very slender, first shorter thai) second; 



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