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2. Pelobates cultripes. 



Rana ciiltripes, Cuv. Reyne Anim. 



Cultripes provincialis, Miiller, in Tiedem. Zeitschr, Phys. iv. p. 212, 



and his, 1832, p. 538. 

 Cultripes minor, Miiller, I. c. (young). 

 Pelobates cultripes, Tsckucli, Batr. p. 83 ; Dum, i^- Bibr, p. 483. 



Crown and occiput flat. Spurs black. 



a. Adult. France. Presented by M. Verreaux. 



2. BOMBINATOE. 



Habit moderate. Skin covered with tubercles and warts ; fingers 

 free, toes webbed ; the first cuneiform bone forming a rounded pro- 

 minence. No tympanum nor cavum tympani ; eustachian tubes lateral, 

 rudimentary, minute or wanting. Tongue nearly circular, entire, 

 very thin, entirely adherent. Vomerine teeth in two small groups 

 between the inner nostrils. Vocal sac none. 



Bombinator, 3fcfrretn, Tent. p. 179 ; Cur. Rbf/ne Anim. ; Tschudi, 

 Batr. p. 84 ; Wayl. Syst. Amph, p. 206 ; Blasius, Wirhelthiere ; 

 Dum. ^ Bihr. viii. p. 485. 



Bufo, sp., Rana, sp., mict. prior. 



1. Bombinator igneus. 



Rana bombina, Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 101, and Syst. Nat. p. 355 ; Bon- 



nat. Erp6tol. p. 4 ; Sturm, DeutscJil. Fauna, iii. fig. ; Lair. Hist. 



Sal. p. 39. 

 Bufo igneus, Rosel, Hist. Ran. vi. p. 97. t. 22, 23 ; Laur. Syn. Rtpt. 



pp. 29, 129 ; Bonnat. I. c. p. 13 ; Sehneid. Hist. Ampli. p. 187 ; 



Latr. Rept. ii. p. 110; Griff. Anim. Kinqd. ix. p. 401; JDauhent. 



Erpet. pp. 604, 611, 635, 680 ; Lac6p. Quadr. Orip. i. pp. 535, 505. 

 Rana ignea, Shaw, Zool. iii. p. 116. pi. 35. 

 Bufo bombinus, Daud. Rain. p. 75. pi. 36, and Rqtt. viii. pp. 146, 



433 ; ScJiinz, Faun. Heket. p. 145. 

 Bombinator igneus, Mcrr. Tent. p. 179 ; Gravenh. Delic. p. 67 ; Cuv. 



Rk/ne Anim. ; Tschudi, Batr. p. 84; Bonap. Faun, Ital.; Dum. ^ 



Bihr. p. 487. 



bombina, Wayl. Syst. p. 206. 



brevipes, Blasius, Wirbelth. 



pacliypus, (Fitz.) Bonap. Faun, Ital. 



Beneath orange, marbled with bluish black. 



a. Adult. Europe. 



h. Adult. Europe. Presented by the Zoological Society. 



c. Adult. Europe. 



d. Adult. Europe. 



e. Adult. Etiropc. 



/. Adult. France. From M. Parzudaki's Collection. 



g. Half-grown. Hanover. Presented by Dr. J. E. Gray. 



