4, BUFO. 301 
the eye. Skin of upper surfaces nearly smooth; parotoids de- 
pressed, very large, extending to the sacral region; a fold across 
the occipital region. Uniform olive above ; whitish beneath, imma- 
culate. Male with a subgular vocal sac. 
Baluchistan. 
a. 3. Dasht, Baluchistan. W.T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 
31. Bufo carens. 
Schismaderma carens, Giinth. Cat. p. 188. 
Bufo carens, Smith, Ill. S. Afr., Rept. pl. 68. f.1; Bouleng. Proc. 
Zool. Soc. 1880, p. 567. 
vertebralis, Smith, l. c. f. 2. 
Schismaderma lateralis, Smith, 1. c. App. p. 28. 
Crown without bony ridges; snout short, truncated; interorbital 
space broader than the upper eyelid; tympanum very distinct, 
circular, as large as the eye, close to the latter. First finger ex- 
tending a little beyond second; toes half webbed; subarticular 
tubercles simpie ; two moderate metatarsal tubercles ; a tarsal fold. 
The hind limb being carried forwards along the body, the tarso- 
metatarsal articulation reaches the eye in males, the tympanum in 
females. Upper parts with irregular, depressed, distinctly porous 
warts, forming a glandular lateral fold; parotoids indistinct. Above 
olive, darker spotted ; beneath whitish, blackish-spotted. Male with 
a subgular vocal sac. 
S. Africa. 
a-c,d-f. $ Q. Natal, Sir A. Smith: [Pl (GAs 
typical of B. carens.) 
g-m. Yg. Cape of Good Hope. Sir A. Smith [P.]. (As 
typical of B. vertebralis.) 
32. Bufo blanfordii. (Piare XIX. fig. 4.) 
Head rather large, without bony ridges; snout short, rounded, 
with indistinct canthus rostralis ; interorbital space as broad as the 
upper eyelid, flat ; tympanum distinct, vertically oval, not quite half 
the diameter of the eye. Fingers moderate, first extending very 
slightly beyond second; toes moderate, half webbed, with simple 
subarticular tubercles ; two small metatarsal tubercles ; a tarsal fold. 
The hind limb being carried forwards along the body, the tarso- 
metatarsal articulation reaches the centre of the eye in the female, 
in front of the eye in the male. Skin covered with small warts ; 
parotoids none. Olive above, indistinctly marbled with darker; a 
dark line from the tip of the snout, through the nostril to the eye ; 
a few large spots on the sides of the head; beneath immaculate. 
Male with a subgular vocal sac. From snout to vent 43 millim. 
Abyssinia. 
a-b. 2 & her. Ain Sambar. W. T. Blanford, Fisq. [ P.]. 
e 3. Sooroo, W.T. Blanford, Esq. Py 
