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rather indistinct. Limbs slender; the hind limb being carried 
forwards along the body, the tibio-tarsal articulation reaches nearly 
the tip of the snout. First finger a little shorter than second ; toes 
half-webbed, with simple subarticular tubercles ; tips of fingers and 
toes swollen into small disks; two small metatarsal tubercles ; no 
tarsal fold. Skin covered with small tubercles ; two small parotoids 
on each side, one on the neck, the other one near the shoulder. 
Blackish brown above, with white spots; beneath marbled with 
brown. 
Java. 
a. Bad state, Jaya. 
2. Bufo brevipes. 
Hylaplesia brevipes, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1867, p. 34. 
First finger very short. ‘Tips of fingers and toes dilated into well- 
developed disks. No metatarsal tubercles. ‘The hind limb being 
carried forwards along the body, the tarso-metatarsal articulation 
marks the centre of the eye. Otherwise as in B. borbonicus. 
Zamboanga. 
3. Bufo leptopus. (Prare XVIII. tig. 4.) 
Bufo leptopus, part.*, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 598. 
Habit slender. Crown without bony ridges; head small; snout 
obliquely truncate, with angular canthus rostralis ; loreal region 
vertical ; interorbital space slightly broader than the upper eyelid ; 
tympanum distinct, not quite half the width of the eye. Fore limb 
slender, as long as the distance between the eye and the vent ; 
fingers slender, first and sccond equal, the tips swollen into very 
small disks. Hind limb slender, the tarso-metatarsal articulation 
reaching far beyond the tip of the snout; toes slightly webbed at 
the base, the tips dilated into very small disks ; subarticular tubercles 
none; two rather indistinct metatarsal tubercles; no tarsal fold. 
Skin covered with small warts and tubercles; parotoids none. 
Brown above, marbled with reddish ; throat and chest blackish. 
Borneo. 
Gr Matang. (Type. ) 
oe Matang. 
4, Bufo penangensis. 
Ansonia penangensis, Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. 1870, p. 152, pl. 9. 
Habit slender. Crown without bony ridges; snout short and 
blunt ; tympanum distinct, smaller than the eye ; fingers long, first 
* The adult only, 
