304 



BUFONID^, 



Bufo commutatus, Sieenstr. Ber. 24. Vers, cleutsch. Naturf. 8fc. Kiel, 

 p. 134. 



griseus, Halloio. Pi-oc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 506. 



japonicus, Camerano, Atti Ac. Tor. xiv. 1879, p. 884. 



Crown without bony ridges ; snout short, blunt ; interorbital 

 space broader than the upper ej'elid ; tympanum small, round, often 

 indistinct. First finger extending scarcely beyond second ; toes at 

 least half webbed ; subarticular tubercles double ; two moderate 

 metatarsal tubercles ; no tarsal fold. The hind limb being carried 

 forwards along the body, the tarso-metatarsal articulation reaches 

 generally the eye in the male, the shoulder in the female. Upper 

 parts with more or less prominent, often spinose, not distinctly 

 porous warts ; parotoids elliptic, rather elongate, very prominent. 

 Brownish above, spotted or marbled with darker ; beneath whitish, 

 more or less spotted with black ; parotoids margined on their outer 

 side with black, which in Chinese and Japanese specimens extends 

 as a vitta along the upperside of the flanks. Male without vocal 

 sac. 



Europe ; Asia ; N.W. Africa. 



a. Skeleton. 



b. ?. 

 c,d.^. 

 e. ?. 



f.S- 

 ff-h. $. 

 i. $. 

 hi. S'i. 

 m-n. (S 2 • 



o. 2. 



p. Stuffed. 



q-t. d.$. 



u, V, 10. 2 & hgr. 



x-y,z-a. $,hgr.,&Tg. 



/3-e. Hgr. & vg. 



C r^-6. 2 & hgr. 



i-K. Hgr. 



o. S- 



England. 



Devonshire. 



Isle of Arran. 



Spring Grove, 



Paris. 



Coruna, Spain. 



Valencia, Spain. 



Porto. 



Bonouia. 



Sicily. 



Athens. 



Chefoo. 



Shanghai. 



Ningpo. 



Cbusan. 



Chusan. 



Chusan. 



Japan. 



Japan. 



Mus. Leach. 

 Mus. Leach. 

 Mus. Leach. 



M. V. L. Seoane [C.]. 

 Lord LUford [P.]. 

 E. Allen, Esq. [P.]. 

 Prof.J. J.Bianconi[P.]. 



C. W. Merlin, Esq. [P.]. 

 R. Swinhoe [P.]. 

 R. Swinhoe [P.]. 



Dr. Cantor. 

 E. India Conip. 

 Leyden Museum. 

 Sir A. Smith [P.]. 



37. Bufo tuberosus. 



Bufo tuberosus, Giinth. Cat. p. GO, pi. iii. f. C. 

 Bufo tuberosus, Tioxdeng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880, p. 572. 



Crown without bony ridges ; snout short, prominent, obliquely 

 truncated ; interorbital space slightly concave, about as broad as the 

 upper eyelid ; tympanum distinct, about half the width of the eye. 

 Fingers slender, first much longer than second ; toes rather short, 

 webbed at the base ; subarticular tubercles very large and prominent, 

 simple ; two moderate metatarsal tubercles ; no tarsal fold. The 

 hind limb being carried forwards along the body, the tarso-meta- 

 tarsal articulation reaches the tip of the snout in the male, between 



