BATKACUTA SALIENTIA. OV 



tubercles, and nothing of a fold is to be seen. The toes are half- 

 webbed ; the third rather longer than the fifth. There are two small 

 and blunt tubercles on the metatarsus. The system of the coloration 

 of the ujjpcr paiis is very similar to that of Bufo ornatus. Ground 

 colour greyish brown or brown ; a more or less distinct, uninten-upted 

 yellowish line from the muzzle to the end of the coccygeal style ; on 

 both sides of it symmetrical reddish-brown markings, the most con- 

 stant of which are a broad cross-band between the eyes, and two 

 irregular blotches on the sacral region ; arms and legs with a few 

 cross-bands. The coloration of the lower parts appears to be a 

 constant character : the throat, breast and upper part of beUy are 

 tliickly covered with dark bro^v^l more or less confluent spots ; these 

 parts become lighter with age, but across the middle appeal's a white 

 rectangular cross, the horizontal branches of which reach from one 

 humeral joint to the other. Length of body 2" ; length of anterior 

 extremity 1^" ; length of posterior extremity 2^". 



3. OTILOPHUS. 



Head moderate, angidar ; muzzle distinct and pointed ; crown on 

 each side wath an enormous, erect, sharp, bony ridge from the orbit 

 to the paratoid (in adult specimens) ; on the side a large cutaneous 

 fold. Teeth none in jaws nor in palate ; eustachian tubes moderate. 

 Tongue oval, entire, free behind. Tympanum more or less distinct ; 

 paratoids prominent ; skin warty. Fingers four, free ; toes five, 

 half- webbed. Male with a single internal vocal sac. South America. 



Otilophiis, Cucier, Eeffne Anim. ; TschucK, Batr. p. 89. 

 Bufo, sp., Rana, sp., auct. cceter. 



1. Otilophus margaritifer. 

 Si'ha, i. 71. 6-9. 

 ? Rana tj^honia, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 356 ; Shmc, Zool. iii. p. 159. 



pi. 45. 



margaritifera, Laur. Si/n. Jtept. p. 30. 



perlata, Lacep. Qttadr. Oiip. i. p. 545 ; Bonnat. Erpet. p. 4. 



Biifo tj'phonius, Schneid. Hist. Amph. p. 207 ; 3Ierr. Tent. p. 181 ; 



Gravenh. Delic. p. 5-3. 



nasutus, Schneid. I. c. p. 217 ; Spia^, Spec. Nov. Test. p. 14. f. 3. 



margaritifer, Lcitr. Kept. ii. p. 118; Daud. Raiv. pi. 33. f. 1, and 



liept. viii. p. 179; Dum. ($• Bihr. p. 718. 

 naricus, acutirostris, proboscideiis, Spix, I. c. t. 14. f. 2, t. 21. 



f. 3, 4. 



oxyi'hynchus, Wied, Rec. PI. Col., and Abbild. t. 



Otilophus porlatus. Cur. Rer/ne Anim. 

 typhouius, Tschudi, Batr. p. 89. 



Paratoids small ; tarsus without cutaneous fold at the inner edge. 



a. Adult : skeleton. Cayenne. 



h. Adult. Tropical America. From ]Mr. Bates's Collection. 



c. Half-grown : not good state. Tropical America. 



