306 BUFONIDS. 
forwards along the body, the tarso-metatarsal articulation reaches in 
front of the eye, or the tip of the snout. Upper parts with irregular, 
distinctly porous warts; parotoids very prominent, large, elongate, 
at least as long as the head. Uniform brown. Male without vocal 
sacs. 
Himalayas. 
a ¢. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 
b-ce. SQ. Sikkim. Dr. Hooker [P. ]. 
d. Her. Sikkim. W.T. Blanford, Esq. IP 
e 2. Darjeeling. W.T. Blanford, Esq. - : 
t-9. 3. Darjeeling. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [P. |. 
41. Bufo melanostictus. 
Bufo melanostictus, Giinth. Cat. p. 61. 
Bufo isos, Giinth. 1. ec. p. 62. 
Bufo melanostictus, Schneid. Hist. Amph. p. 216; Gravenh. Dele. 
p- 57; Cantor, Cat. Mal. Rept. p. 142; Guard, U.S. Expl. Exped., _ 
Herp. p. 92, pl. 5.f. 10-14; Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 422 ; Stein- 
dachn. Novara, Amph. p. 42; Stoliczka, Proc. As. Soe. 1870, 
. 155. 
E scaber, Daud. Rain. p. 94, pl. 34. f. 1, and Rept. viii. p, 194; 
Tschudi, Batr. p. 88; Dum. § Bibr. p. 699; Schleg. Abbild. p. 64, 
1e20.f.2: 
: bengalensis, Daud. Rain. p. 96, pl. 35. f. 1, and Rept. viii. 
p. 197; Lesson, in Bélang. Voy. Ind. Or., Rept. p. 334. 
isos, Lesson, 1. c. p. 333, pl. 7; Dum. & Bibr. p. 702. 
— dubia, (Shaw) Gray, Ind. Zool. 
carinatus, Gray, l. ¢. 
eymnauchen, Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. 1858, xvi. 
. 46. 
Ei tmnotdis melanostictus, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1863, p. 357. 
Bufo spinipes, (Fitzing.) Steindachn. 1. c. p. 43, pl. 6. f. 6. 
Head with more or less elevated bony ridges, viz. a canthal, a 
preorbital, a supraorbital, a postorbital, and a short orbito-tym- 
panic; snout short, blunt; interorbital space much broader than 
the upper eyelid; tympanum very distinct, at least two thirds the 
width of the eye. First finger extending generally, but not always, 
beyond second; toes at least half webbed, with simple subarticular 
tubercles; two mederate metatarsal tubercles; tarsal fold none 
(sometimes present, according to Stoliczka). The hind limb being 
carried forwards along the body, the tarso-metatarsal articulation 
reaches the tympanum or the eye. Upper surfaces with more or 
less prominent, generally spiny, warts; parotoids very prominent, 
kidney-shaped or elliptic, more or less elongate. Yellowish or 
brownish above, the spines of the warts and the ridges of the head 
generally black; beneath immaculate or more or less spotted. 
Male with a subgular vocal sac. : 
E. Indies ; 8. China. 
a. Her. Canton. Haslar Coll. 
b-c. 5 & her. Hongkong. J. C, Bowring, Esq. [P.]. 
