56 EEPTILES. 



I. Adiilt. Sicily. (B. palmarum.) 



m. Young : discoloured. Sine patria. 



n, 0. Larvae. Bononia. Presented by J. J. Bianconi. 



B. Asiatic varieties. Sides very distinctly marbled "with black ; 

 belly black-spotted. Glands witb horny surface. 



a. Bufo gargarizans, Cantor, Ann. of Nat. Hist. 1842, p. 483. 

 Tubercles not numerous, of unequal size. 



p, q. Adult and young. Chusan. Presented by the Hon. East 



India Company. 

 r, s. Adult. Chusan. Presented by the Hon. East India Company. 

 t-v. Half-gio^vn and young. Chusan. 



j3. Bufo vulgaris ja,poiiicus, SMcgel, Faun. Jap. 106. t. 2. 

 f. 5, 6. — Tubercles numerous, of nearly equal size. 



w,x. Adult and half-grown. Ningpo (China). From Mr. Cuming's 



Collection. 



y, z. Half-grown. Ningpo, From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 



a-c. Adult and half-grown. Japan. From the Leyden Museum. 



2. Bufo chilensis. 



P Bufo thaul, Molina, Hist. Nat. Chili, p. 194 ; Schneid. Hist. Am^jh. 



p. 227; Merr. Tad. p. 181. 



thaul, Gam. ct Less. Voy. Coq. ii. pi. 7. f. 6. 



cliilensis, {Mm. Paris) Tschudi, Batr. p. 88 ; JEydonx et Soul. 



Voy. Bonite, Rept. t. 9. f. 1, 2 ; Bell, Zool. Beagle, p. 49 ; Dum. Sf 



Bihr. p. 0578. 

 spinulosus, Wiegm. Not\ Act. xvii. t. 22. f. 3 ; Tschudi, Batr. 



p. 88. 



Crown vnthout bony enlargement. Paratoids short, subtriangular. 

 Tarsus with a cutaneous fold at the inner edge*. Toes half-webbedi 

 Tympanum very distinct. Olive or brownish, with darker, sometimes 

 confluent spots ; beneath whitish, uniform or black-spotted. 



a. Adult. Valparaiso. Presented by Charles Darwin, Esq. 

 h-cl. Adult. Chili. 



e. Adult. Chili. 



f. Half- grown. ChiK. 



g. Half-grown, Chili. From Mr. Bridge's Collection. 

 h, i. Young. Chili. Presented by Charles Darwin, Esq. 

 Jc. Adult. Chili. Presented by J. B. Pentland, Esq. 



I. Adult. California, From Mr. Stevens's Collection. — This agrees 

 with the specimens from Chili, except in having a darker colo- 

 ration, and a very narrow whitish vertebral line. 



""" Bibron is wrong in denying the existence of this cutaneous fold : all the speci- 

 mens in the British Museum Collection exhibit it very well developed. 



