BUPO. 



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Crown deeply concave, with a bony enlargement round the orbit 

 above and bent down between orbit and paratoid. Paratoida 

 moderate, elongate, prominent, as long as, or larger than the head. 

 Tympanum distinct, nearly as large as the eye. Skin of the back 

 and external or upper surface of the limbs covered with conical tuber- 

 cles, generally a double series runs down along the vertebral line. 

 Tubercles covered with a sooty or blackish horny substance. Legs 

 short, the length of the hind limb being not more than the length of 

 the body; metatarsus with two prominences; tarsus without longitudi- 

 nal fold. Toes half webbed. 



Colour uniform brown, greyish olive or earthy brown above, marbled 

 with dark brown or pale brown. Under sui^face huffish white. Young 

 the same, the lower surface pale brown. 



Length. — 2 to 3 inches. 



Hah. — Sind, Punjab, N. W. Provinces, Oudh, Bengal, South, Central 

 and N. W. India, Assam, Nepaul and the Andamans. 



Bufo Andersonii, 8p. Nov. 



Snout rounded in front. Crown of the head flat, without any elevated 

 bony ridges, the inter-orbital space as wide as, or a very little wider 

 than the upper eyelid. A narrow groove in front of the eye, and 

 another behind it, between the tympanum and paratoid. Tympanum 

 distinct, and as large as the diameter of the eye, smaller in some, and 

 with a distinct semi-circular ridge edging it in front. Paratoids rather 

 oblongj elliptic, and slightl}^ larger than the head. A paratoid-like 

 gland behind the maxilla, from which it is separated by a vertical groove. 

 Back covered with rather flattish tubercles, which are more prominent, 

 in the sacral region. Limbs the same, but with faint indications of 

 dark brown spots in the centre of a few tubercles. Tarsus with a 

 longitudinal fold of skin. Toes a little more than half webbed, the tips 

 brownish, tuberculous below. Metatarsus with two well-developed pads 

 of equal size, the outer, and in some the inner, more prominent. The 

 first finger laid beside the second is slightly the longer, and as long as 

 the fourth. The hind limb is much longer than the head and body ; 

 laid forward the metatarsal tubercles reach to the front edge of the eye. 

 Colour brownish or gx'eyish olive, marbled with dark bi'own. Lower 

 surface pure white, including the labial edge of the upper jaw. 



Hah. — Sind, (Tatta (ponds) and Joongshai.) 



This may turn out to be an aberrant form of B. melanostictosi with 

 which it is associated in the lakes and ponds at Tatta and Joongshai. 

 It difiers however from it in having a longitudinal tarsal fold, also by the 

 absence of prominent conical, spine-bearing tubercles, as well as by its 

 much longer hind limbs. 



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