4. BTJFO. 307 



42. Bufo microtympaniim. (Plate XXII. fig. 1.) 



Head with prominent bony ridges, viz. a canthal, a preorbital, a 

 supraorbital, a postorbital, and a short orbi to-tympanic ; snout 

 short, blunt ; iuterorbital space broader than the upper e^-elid ; 

 tympanum very small, not half the width of the eye, generally 

 indistinct. First finger extending beyond second ; toes about half 

 webbed, with simple subarticular tubercles ; two moderate meta- 

 tarsal tubercles ; tarsal fold none. The hind limb being carried 

 forwards along the body, the tarso-metatarsal articulation reaches 

 the eye, or between the eye and the tip of the snout. Upper surfaces 

 with irregular, distinctly porous warts. Parotoids prominent, 

 elliptic, twice or twice and a half longer than broad. Brown above, 

 yellow beneath, marbled with brown. Male with a subgular vocal 

 sac. From snout to vent 77 mUlim. 



This species is closely allied to B. melanostictus, from which it is 

 well distinguished by its very small tympanum. 



Malabar, 



a. Several spec. : J , $ , Malabar. Col. Beddome [P.]. 



43. Bufo intermedius. 



Bufo intermedius, Giinth. Cat. p. 140, pi. ix. f. A. 

 Bufo intermedius, Camerano, Atti Ace. Tvr. xiv. p. 887. 



A supraorbital and a postorbital bony ridge, the latter hidden 

 by the skin and rectangular with the former ; only a trace of 

 parietal and preorbital ridges ; snout short, blunt ; interorbital 

 space broader than the upper eyelid ; tympanum moderately distinct, 



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