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RE POET OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 



1815. Bufotes Rafinesque, Anal. Nat., p. 78 (emend.). 



1816. Calamita Oken, Lehrb. Zool., II, p. 209 (typeJS. calamita; notof Schneider 



1799). 



1828. Chascax Ritgen, Nova Acta Acad. Cses. Leop., p. 278 (type J>\ strumosus). 



1843. Phryne Fitzinger, Syst. Rept., p. 32 (type B. vulgaris). 



1843. Dociddphryne Fitzinger, Syst. Rept., p. 32 (type B. agua). 



1843. Peltophryne Fitzinger, Syst. Rept., p. 32 (type B. peltocephalus). 



1843. ChUophryne Fitzinger, Syst. Rept., p. 32 (type B. d'orbignyi). 



1862. Peltaphryne Cope, Proc. Phila. Acad., 1862, pp. 344, 627 (emend.). 



1868. Olaspis Cope, Proc. Phila. Acad., 1868, p. 312 (type 0. empusa). 



1875. Cranopsis Cope, Jonrn. Phila. Acad., (n. s.) VIII, Pt. 2, p. 96 (type C. 



fastidvbsus). 



1889. Qranophryne Cope, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 34, p. 260 (substit.). 



The above synomymy only embraces such names as are additional 

 to previously published lists or directly referable to the group to 

 which the Porto Rican species belongs. 



The toads (Spanish Sapo) with their warty skin are so well known 

 that a generic description seems superfluous in this connection. 



Only one species of this numerous and almost cosmopolitan genus is 

 found within our territory, though a second one has been reported 

 upon insufficient or erroneous evidence. 



BUFO LEMUR" (Cope). 



1868. Peltaphryne lemur Cope, Proc. Phila. Acad., 1868, p. 311 (type locality, 

 Porto Rico). 



1876. Bufo {Peltaphryne) gutturosus Peters, Mon. Ber. .Berlin Akad. Wiss., 



1876, p. 709 (Porto Rico, Bayamon, Vegabaja) (notof Latreille 1802).— 

 Bufo g. Gundlach, Anal. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat,, X, 1881, p. 314 (Porto 

 Rico). — Stahl, Fauna Puerto-Rico, 1882, pp. 71, 161 (Porto Rico). — 

 Garman, Bull. Essex Inst., XIX, 1887, p. 16 (part, specimens from 

 Bayamon, Porto Rico) . 



This species has been united by Peters with a related one from Santo 

 Domingo, a conclusion since adopted by Boulenger and Garman. 



Though having no specimens from Santo 

 Domingo for direct comparison, I venture 

 to disagree with them, as Boulenger\s own 

 description b and Griinther's figure c of Santo 

 Domingan specimens show characters suffi- 

 cient to separate the two species, as, for 

 instance, the vastly greater development of 

 the cephalic crests, the horizontal expansion 

 of the upper jaw into a labial crest, the pres- 

 ence of a parietal crest, and of a prominent subnasal ridge. The 

 Porto Rican specimens also have single conical tubercles under the 

 digital articulations, while the Santo Domingan ones are said by Bou- 

 lenger to have toes "with double subarticular tubercles." 



« Lemur, a genus of mammals of nocturnal habits. 

 t-Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., 1882, p. 324. 

 cCat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., 1858, pi. v, fig. P 



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Fig. 1. 

 bufo lemur. head. 



No. 27148, U.S.N.M. 



