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tubercles; no tarsal fold; the heel reaches the shoulder, the 

 tarsometatarsal articulation the tympanum or the eye. 



Upper parts more or less warty; parotoids prominent and 

 compressed, ridge-like, much elongate, continuous with the 

 supratympanic bony ridge, and usually followed by a lateral 

 series of large tubercles; some specimens prickly all over with 

 horny spines; granulate beneath. 



Brownish above, uniform or marbled with olive; the paro- 

 toids sometimes whitish, edged with black; limbs with dark 

 cross-bars; lower parts whitish, uniform or marbled with brown. 

 From snout to vent 65 mm. 



Habitat: Sumatra (Deli!; Palembang!); Natuna islands 

 (Bunguran); Borneo (Baram riv. ; Mt. Dulit). — Malay Penin- 

 sula, up to 240 m. 



16. Bufo divergens Ptrs. 



Bufo divergens Peters, Monatsber. Akad. Berlin, 187 1, p. 579. 

 Bufo divergens Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., 1882, p. 312 (with fig. of head). 

 Bufo divergens Boulenger, Vert. Fauna Malay Penins., Rept. and Batr., London, 

 1912, p. 275. 



Closely related to B. qaadriporcatus, from which it differs 

 in the following points. Parietal ridge forming an angle with 

 the supraorbital one; the tarso-metatarsal articulation reaches the 

 tip of the snout, or beyond; tibia half the length of head and 

 body. Sometimes a yellow vertebral line. From snout to 

 vent 50 mm. 



Habitat: Natuna islands (Bunguran); Borneo (Labuan ; 

 Serawak; Matan). — Malay Peninsula; Pelawan ? 



17. Bufo parvus Blgr. 



Bufo parvus Boulenger, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (5) XIX, 1887, p. 346, pi. X, fig. 3. 



Bufo claviger Isenschmid, Mitth. naturf. Ges. Bern, 1903, p. 80. 



Bufo parvus Boulenger, Vert. Fauna Malay Penins., Rept. and Batr., London, 



1912, p. 274. 

 Bufo parvus Smith, Jrn. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, II, 1916, p. 42, wij.h figs, (tadpole). 

 Bufo parvus Annandale, Mem. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, VI, 1917, p. 153, fig. 10 



and pi. VI, fig. 8 (tadpole). 



Head with a supraorbital, a narrow parietal, and a short 

 supratympanic bony ridge, the two former ones forming together 

 a straight line or diverging behind; snout truncate, projecting, 

 shorter than the upper eyelid, deeper than long; canthus 

 rostralis angular; loreal region vertical; nostril nearer tip of 



