294 BTJFONID^. 



Bufo crnciatiis, ScJmeid. Hist. Amjyli. fasc. i. p. 193. 



ciirsor, Dcnid. Bept. viii. p. 164. 



viridis, part., Bum. Si- Bihr. p. 681. 



Epidalea calamita, Cope, Nat. Hist. Rev, 1865, p. 102 



Crown witlioiit bony ridges ; snout short, blunt ; iuterorbital 

 space narrower tban the upper eyelid ; tympanum small, more or 

 less indistinct. Pirst finger not extending beyond second ; toes 

 webbed at the base, with double subarticular tubercles ; two mode- 

 rate metatarsal tubercles ; a tarsal fold. Hind limb short ; it being 

 carried forwards along the bodj', the tarso-metatarsal articulation 

 reaches generally the hinder edge of the eye in males, the shoulder 

 in females. Upper parts with irregular, depressed, distinctly porous 

 warts ; parotoids small, oval or sul)triangular, depressed ; a parotoid- 

 like gland on the calf. Olive-marbled or spotted above ; generally 

 a yellow vertebral line ; beneath more or less black-spotted. Male 

 with a subgular vocal sac. 



Europe. 



Dr. Purcell [P.]. 

 Dr. Fricker [P.]. 

 Dr. W. Leach [P.]. 

 Lord Lilford [P.j. 

 E. Allen, Esq. [P.]. 



20. Buforaddii. 



Bufo raddei, Stravch, Voy. rrzewahhi, Bept. ^- Batr. p. 5.3 ; Latasfc, 

 Bet: Int. Sc. 1878, p. 437; Bouleiuj. Broc. Zool. >Soc. 1880, p. 551. 



Crown without bony ridges; snout short, blunt; iuterorbital 

 space narrower than tlie upper eyelid ; tympanum verj^ distinct, haK 

 the width of the eye. First finger not extending beyond second ; 

 toes shoitly webbed, with simple subarticular tubercles; two meta- 

 tarsal tiibercles, the outer much smaller than the inner ; a tarsal 

 fold. Hind limb short ; it being carried forwards along the body, 

 the tarso-metatarsal articulation marks generally the eye in males, 

 the tympanum in females. Upper parts with irregular, depressed, 

 distinctly porous warts ; parotoids rather large, very variable in 

 shape : a parotoid-like gland on the calf. Light olive above, 

 marbled or spotted with brown or blackish ; a light vertebral stripe ; 

 beneath generally unspotted. Male with a subgular vocal sac. 



Eastern temperate Asia. 



n-b. (5 & yg. Sungatschi. St. Petersburg Museum. 



c-i. c? > 2 ; t-t ligr. Chefoo. R. Swiuhoe [P.]. 



21. Bufo latastii. (Plate XIX. fig. 2.) 



Crown without bony ridges ; snout short, blunt ; iuterorbital 

 space narro-n er than the upper eyelid ; tym2)anum very distinct. 



