236 nUFO BORBONICUS. 



Therefore it will not be superfluous to give a descrip- 

 tion of our type-specimens. 



1. Bufo cruentatus. 



Bufo cruentatus (Schleg.) Tschudi, Classif. der Batrach. 

 p. 52 and 88; Dum. & Bibr. Erpetol. génér. Vol. VIII, 

 p. 6G5; Günth., Catal. Brit. Mus. Irst Edit. p. 62. 



Bufo borbonicus Boul., Cat. Brit. Mus. 2nd Edit. p. 286. 



Habit Slender. Head short, triangular, with the snout 

 obliquely truncate, canthus rostralis angular; loreal region 

 vertical , slightly concave , interorbital space broader than 

 the upper eyelid ; a parotoid on each side from the eye 

 to the shoulder, sometimes divided in two parts; tympa- 

 num rather indistinct , small. Fingers free , the first shorter 

 than the second ; toes webbed , the membrane reaching the 

 tip of the first and second toe , but only the first articu- 

 lation of the others ; disks small. Limbs slender ; the hind 

 limb being carried forwards along the body , the heel rea- 

 ches the tip of the snout. (In a young specimen , otherwise 

 quite agreeing with the others, the heel extends only to 

 the eye). Skin covered with small tubercles above; un- 

 derside smooth or granular. 



Colour: (spirit-specimens) above brown, variegated with 

 dark spots and white patches; beneath rufous. 



Length from snout to vent 33 m. m. — Several specimens 

 from Java , collected by Kuhl & van Hasselt and l)y Boie & 

 Macklot. 



2. Bufo borhonicus. 



Hylaplesia borbonica Kuhl & v. Hass., Isis 1827, p. 294; 

 Tschudi, Classif. d. Batrach. p. 28 and 70 ; Peters, Monatsb. 

 Berlin. Acad. 1863, p. 81. 



Habit slender. Head pyramidal , with the snout obli- 

 quely truncate; canthus rostralis angular; loreal region 



ISTotes Irom tlie Leyden ÜMiiiseuixi , Vol. V. 



