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tips sometimes dilated into regular disks. Sternum usually a 
cartilaginous plate, and sometimes ossified along its. center, or 
with a well-ossified style. Pupil occasionally erect. Tongue 
mostly elliptic and entire. 
A rather large family represented by a singles genus within our 
limits. 
Genus Buro Laurenti. 
The True Toads. 
Bufo lentiginosus (Shaw). 
PLATE 18. 
Toad. Hop Toad. Common Toad. 
Head, measured to posterior edge of tympanum, 334 in body 
to end of trunk, not including hind limbs; depth 224 normal; 
greatest width of body 134; width of head at posterior margins 
of tympani greater than its length by horizontal diameter of 
eye; snout 244; eye 3; mouth 1°/,,; interorbital space, meas- 
ured from eye-sockets, 44%; fore limb 2% in head and trunk; 
hind limb when outstretched greater than head and trunk by 
horizontal eye-diameter. Body robust, depressed, more or less 
swollen in appearance, when viewed above ovoid with bulge 
at pelvic processes and then slightly constricted back. Surface 
rather well depressed both above and below, only slightly con- 
vex. Pelvic bones forming but a very slight obtuse angle in pro- 
file along back, but little behind middle of length of head and 
trunk, or about */; of space, though processes obsolete. Head 
moderately small, broad and depressed, both above and below. 
Snout short, bluntly convex, its length a little less than half its 
width, and when viewed above rather evenly convex. Eye 
rather large, a little longer than deep, its posterior margin nearly 
midway between tip of snout and shoulder, or about over middle 
in gape of mouth. Mouth large, gape but slightly convex in 
profile, with convexity superior. Lips thin, firm or rather horny, 
