140 REI'TILES. 



Page 60. Bufo tuberosus. 



b. Adult. Presented by Sir A. Smith. 



Page 61. Bufo celebensis. 



c. Adult. Presented by Sir A. Smith. 



Page 62. Bufo biporcatus. 

 Dtonont cT Urville, Voy. au Pole Slid, Rept. et Poiss. p. 28. pi. 1. f. 6, 6 a. 



Page 62. 14 a. Bufo kelaartii. (Plate X. fig. A.) 



Crown flat, without bony enlargement ; canthus rostralis angular, 

 tubercular ; upper eyelid edged with a series of tubercles. Skin 

 covered with tubercles. Paratoid verj' narrow and rather elongate. 

 Toes broadly webbed. Tympanum rather indistinct. Above brown, 

 a lighter cross-band between the eyes. Belly yellowish, brown- 

 epotted. 



a. Half-grown. Ceylon. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 

 h, c. Young. Ceylon. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 



d. Half-grown. Ceylon. Presented by Sir A. Smith. 



Description. — Head triangular, with angular rough canthus ros- 

 tralis and moderate muzzle ; snout rather pointed in front ; crown 

 flat, rather broad ; extremities moderate. Fingers rather long and 

 slender, quite free ; carpus with a blunt flat tubercle ; toes rather 

 shoi't, broadly webbed ; metatarsus vsdth two small blunt tubercles ; 

 no cutaneous fold along the edge of tarsus. Skin tuberculous, rough • 

 a very narrow paratoid from the tympanum to near half the side of 

 the back ; outer edge of upper eyelid rather prominent, with a convex 

 series of rough tubercles. Nostrils lateral, but near the end of snout. 

 Cleft of mouth moderate. Palate quite smooth, without any bony 

 or membranaceous prominences, but with two longitudinal grooves. 

 Tongue very narrow, elliptical, free and entire behind ; inner nares 

 moderate ; eustachian tubes small ; tympamim rather indistinct. 

 Above brown, sometimes the back with lighter, sometimes vnth 

 darker variegations ; a lighter cross-band between the eyes ; extre- 

 mities with indistinct cross-bands. Belly yellowish, more or less 

 distinctly brown-spotted, the spots more crowded towards the 

 middle. The largest specimen is the size of a Bombinator igneus. 



Page 63. Bufo lentiginosus. 



Bufo americaniis, Dekay, New York Fauna, Rept. p. 67. pi. 19. f. 46 

 (young), pi. 20. f. 52. 



Page 64. Ion. Bufo intermedius. (Plate IX. fig. A.) 

 A bony ridge above the orbit ; another between the orbit and para- 



