BU FO .—Laurenii. 
Genus Buro.—Cuaractrrs. Head large; mouth extensive; tongue elongated, 
elliptical, entire, generally a little larger behind, free posteriorly; jaws and palate 
without teeth; eyes large, pupil elliptical longitudinally, dilatable; tympanum more 
or less distinct; parotid glands more or less developed; males mostly with a sub- 
gular vocal vesicle; four fingers, sub-round, free; five toes of same form, more or 
less palmate, the last shorter than the penultimate; metatarsal region with two 
tubercles below, the one at the root of great toe largest. 
BUFO LENTIGINOSUS.—Shaw. 
Plate I. 
Cuaracters. Head large; snout obtuse; superciliary ridges greatly elevated 
and terminating posteriorly in a knob; upper jaw emarginate, lower furnished 
with a hook in front; parotid glands large, reniform, and reaching from below the 
tympanum to near the shoulder; tympanum large; vocal vesicle internal; body 
above warty, dusky brown, with a tinge of yellow; beneath granulated, dirty 
yellowish-white. Length 3 inches. 
Synonymes. Land-frog, Catesby, Carolina, &c., vol. 11. tab. 69. 
Land-frog, Bartram, Travels in Carolina and Florida, &c., p. 279. 
Rana lentiginosa, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. iil. part i. pl. 53, p. 173. 
Bufo musicus, Daudin, Rainettes, p. 92, tab. 33, fig. 3;—Hist. Rept., tom. vill. p. 190. 
Bufo musicus, Bose, Nouy. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., tom. vi. p. 490. 
