4. BUFo, 287 



rather indistinct. Limbs slender; the hind limh being carried 

 forwards along the body, the tibio-tarsal articulation reaches nearly 

 the tip of the snont. Eirst finger a little shorter than second ; toes 

 half-webbed, with simple snbarticular tubercles ; tips of fingers and 

 toes swollen into small disks ; two small metatarsal tubercles ; no 

 tarsal fold. Skin covered with small tubercles ; two small parotoids 

 on each side, one on the neck, the other one near the shoulder. 

 Blackish brown above, with white spots ; beneath marbled with 

 brown. 

 Java. 



<i. Bad state. .Java. 



2. Bufo brevipes. 

 Hylaplesia brevipes, Peters, Mun. Bert. Ac. 1867, p. 34. 



First finger very short. Tips of fingers and toes dilated into well- 

 developed disks. No metatarsal tubercles. The hind limb being 

 carried forwards along the body, the tarso-metatarsal articulation 

 marks the centre of the eye. Otherwise as in B. horhonicus. 



Zamboanga. 



3. Bufo leptopus. (Plate XVIII. fig. 4.) 

 Bufo leptopus, part.*, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 508. 



Habit slender. Crown without bony ridges ; head small; snout 

 obliquely truncate, with angular canthus rostralis ; lorcal region 

 vertical ; intcrorbital space slightly broader than the upper eyelid : 

 tympanum distinct, not quite half the width of the eye. Fore limb 

 slender, as long as the distance between the eye and the vent ; 

 fingers slender, first and second equal, the tips swollen into very 

 small disks. Hind limb slender, the tarso-metatarsal articulation 

 reaching far beyond the tip of the snout ; toes slightly webbed at 

 the base, the tips dilated into very small disks ; snbarticular tubercles 

 none ; two rather indistinct metatarsal tubercles ; no tarsal fold. 

 Skin covered with small warts and tubercles ; parotoids none. 

 Brown above, marbled with reddish ; throat and chest blackish. 



Borneo. 



a. 2-. Matang. (Type.) 



b. 2 ' Matang. 



4. Biifo penangensis. 



Ansonia penangensis, StoUczJia, Journ. As. Soc. 1870, p. 152, rl. 9. 

 f. 4. 



Habit slender. Crown without bony ridges ; snout short and 

 blunt ; tympanum distinct, smaller than the eye ; fingers long, first 



* The adult only. 



