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1882. Bufo tnarinus (not of Linnaeus) Boulenger, 1882a (part), p. 316 (speci- 

 mens from Rio de Janeiro). — Nieden 1923 (part), p. 138. — Miranda- 

 RiBEiRO, 1926 (part), p. 134. — ? Brazil and Vellard, 1926, p. 14, 

 pis. 3, 4.— A. LuTZ, 1934 (part), p. 115, pis. 13, 14, 19, 26, fig. 2.— 

 Myers, 1946, pp. 10, 27. 



1927. Bvfo tnarinus ictericus L. MCller, p. 261. — Mertens, 1930, p. 161. 



Description. — Adult male, USNM 97740, Valvera, near Nova 

 Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro. Tongue elongate, oval, about one-third the 

 wddth of mouth-opening, entire and free for over half its length behind; 

 snout short, rounded when viewed from above or in profile, the upper 

 jaw scarcely extending beyond lower; nostrils a little nearer to tip of 



Figure 1. — Bufo ictericus ictericus, USNM 97740: a, Dorsum X J^-^; b, profile X J^; f, foot X 



l;(f, handX 1. 



snout than to eye and just below canthus, the openings directed up- 

 wards and backwards, separated from each other by an interval greater 

 than their distance from eye. Canthus rostralis marked by a very 

 heavy ridge forking in front of eye as a preocular crest, continuing 

 above the eye, and then turning outwards behind it as a postocular 

 crest, a short branch running into the large, elliptical, posteriorly 



