306 BIJFOXID^. 



forwards along the body, the tarso-metatarsal ai-ticulatlon reaches in 

 front of the eye, or the'tipof the snout. Upper parts with irregular, 

 distinctly porous warts ; parotoids very prominent, large, elongate, 

 at least as long as the head. Uniform brown. Male without vocal 

 sacs. 



Himalayas. 



a. c? . Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



b-c. c^ 2 ' Sikkim. Dr. Hooker [P.]. 



d. H<rr. Sikkim. W. T. Blanfurd, Esq. [P. 



e. $7 Davjeeling. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P. 

 /-(/■ 3 2 ■ Darjeehng. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. 



41. Bufo melanostictus. 



Biifo melanostictus, Giinth. Cat. p. 61. 

 Bufo isos, Giinth. L c. p. Q2. 

 Bufo melanostictus, Schneid. Hist. Amph. p. 216 ; GravenJi. Belie. 

 p. 57 ; Cantor, Cat. Mai. Rept. p. 142 ; Girard., U.S. Expl. Exped., 

 Herp. p. 92, pi. 5. f. 10-14; Giinth. Rept. Brit. Lid. p. 422 ; 8tein- 

 dachn. Novara, Amph. p. 42; Stoliczka, Proc. As. Soc. 1670, 

 p. Ljo. 



scaber, Daud. Rain. p. 94, pi. 34. f . 1, and Rept. viii. p. 194 ; 



Tschudi, Batr. p. 88; Bum. 8,- Bibr. p. 099; Schleg. Ahbild. p. 64, 

 pi. 20. f. 2. 



bengalensis, Baud. Rain. p. 96, pi. 35. f. 1, and Rept. viii. 



p. 197 ; Lesson, in Belanc/. Voy. Ind. Or., Rept. p. 334. 



— isos. Lesson, I. c. p. 333, pi. 7 ; Bum. % Bibr. p. 702. 



— dubia, (Shaiv) Gray, Ind. Zool. 



— caiinatus, Gray, I. c. 

 gymnaucben, Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Lid. 1858, xvi. 



p. 46. _ 



Pbryuoidis melanostictus. Cope, P)-oc. Ac. Philad. 1863, p. 357. 

 Bufo spinipes, (Fitziny.) Steindachn. I. c. p. 43, pi. 5. f. 6. 



Head with more or less elevated bony ridges, viz. a canthal, a 

 preorbital, a supraorbital, a i^ostorbital, and a short orbito-tym- 

 panic ; snout short, blunt ; interorbital space much broader than 

 the upper eyelid ; tympanum very distinct, at least two thirds the 

 width of the eye. First finger extending generally, but not always, 

 beyond second ; toes at least half webbed, with simple subarticular 

 tubercles ; two moderate metatarsal tubercles ; tarsal fold none 

 (sometimes present, according to Stoliczka). The hind limb being 

 carried forwards along the body, the tarso-metatarsal articulation 

 reacbes the tympanum or the eye. Upper surfaces with more or 

 less prominent, generally spiny, warts ; parotoids very prominent, 

 kidney-shaped or elliptic, more or less elongate. Yellowish or 

 brownish above, the spines of the warts and the ridges of the head 

 generally black ; beneath immaculate or more or less spotted. 

 Male with a subgular vocal sac. 



E. Indies ; S. China. 



a. Hgr. Canton. Haslar Coll. 



b-c. (S & hgr. Hongkong. J. C. Bowring, Esq. [P.]. 



