SYSTEMATIC ACCOUNT OF THE SPECIES. 95 
BUFONIDAR. 
Key to the Species of Bufo. 
a! Top of head hard and bony, with high crests bounding a deep depression 
INUNGET TOO OVO), ale lal eee lol oo uk oe molec Gg On ech SSemc as 
a? Top of head flat or concave, with or without conspicuous upstanding crests. 
b' Skin of head ossified with the cranium, crests present but not high, 
empusus, p. 100 
two or three bony knobs in canthal and supraorbital regions. . . . . pellacephalus, p. 98 
b? Head without crests 
c! Toesnearlyfullywebbed. . . . .... =... =. + + « (longinasus, p. 95 
ce Toes with butatraceofweb ......... =... . ramsdeni, p. 96 
2. Buro LONGINASUS Stejneger. 
Plate 13, fig. 1. 
Palmer’s Toad. 
Diagnosis:— A small toad having no cranial bony ridges; first finger shorter 
than second; toes nearly fully webbed; skin smooth, pustulous, but without 
asperities; snout conical, projecting, pointed, with the nostrils near the tip, 
parotoids enormous, their length almost equalling their distance from the groin. 
Description:— Tyrer. Adult o U. 8S. N. M. 27,419. Cuba: Pinar del 
Rio City, near El Guamd, 9 March, 1900. William Palmer and J. H. Riley. 
“Head and body depressed, nearly flat above; snout concave along median line, coni- 
cal, projecting, pointed; nostrils near the tip of snout and close together; canthus rostralis 
rounded; interorbital width much greater than width of upper eyelid; tympanum indis- 
tinct, about half the diameter of the eye; first finger shorter than second, with a pad of dark 
brown nuptial asperities on top and side of basal portion; tips of fingers and toes slightly 
swollen; toes nearly fully webbed; subarticular tubercles well developed, double; inner 
metatarsal tubercle moderate, not prominent, outer conical; a tarsal fold, the distal end of 
which resembles the inner metatarsal tubercle; tibio-tarsal articulation of hind leg extended 
forward along the side of the body, reaches halfway between insertion of fore leg and tym- 
panum; skin above smooth with irregular smooth, distinctly pitted pustules separated pos- 
teriorly and on sides by anastomosing furrows; parotoids enormous, their length almost 
equaling their distance from the groin, flat, descending on sides below the level of the tym- 
panum, deeply pitted; throat longitudinally wrinkled on breast and belly, and underside of 
femurs coarsely granulated. Color (in alcohol) above, dark purplish maroon; underneath, 
including the upper lip, a narrow space above the insertion of the arm, and the internal half 
of the upper side of hands and feet white; a few dark purplish brown specks on lips, chest, 
and tibia and a longitudinal mark of the same color in front of insertion of fore legs. ‘Total 
length, tip of snout to vent, 25.5 mm....Length of hind limb from vent to tip of longest 
toe 32 mm.” STEJNEGER, Proc. U. S. N. M., 1905, 28, p. 765-767. 
