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cum vitta flavea dorsuali ; pu$tulis rubescentibus. Infra albo sordido, 

 itlgro maculato. 



SPEC. CHAR. Upper surface of head, plane; skin not adhering to the 

 skull and smooth. Parotids moderate. Tympanum small. A mem- 

 branous, tarsal fold. Toes palmated. Green, with a dorsal, yellow 

 vitta; pustules reddish. Beneath, of a soiled white, maculated with 

 black. 



SYN. Bufo loreas, B. & G. in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. VI, 1852, 174. GBD. 

 in Proc. Acad. Xat. Sci. Philad. VII, 1854, 87. 



DESCR. With a total length of two inches and three-tenths, we find 

 that the head does not measure quite the third. The latter is very 

 much depressed, flattened or plane above, showing neither ridges nor 

 grooves, save a very shallow depression upon the middle of the snout. 

 It is rounded and very declivous from the nostrils to the margin of the 

 upper jaw, forwards and sideways. The interocular space, measured 

 across the middle of the eyes, is equal to the width of the upper lid. 

 The canthus rostralis is very slightly swollen; the nostrils are a little 

 nearer the eye than the notch of the upper jaw. The horizontal 

 diameter of the eye is equal to the distance between the anterior mar- 

 gin of the latter and the extremity of the upper jaw ; the upper eye- 

 lid is warty; the warts, generally small, are sometimes more developed 

 upon its internal periphery. Its external periphery' is corneous and 

 sharp. The tympanum is small, sometimes subcircular, at others sub- 

 elliptical; its diameter is less than half that of the eye. The parotids 

 are moderate in size, and subreniform in shape, situated horizon- 

 tally above the shoulders, anteriorly close to the orbit, and contiguous 

 exteriorly to the tympanum. Their surface is smooth anteriorly, whilst 

 posteriorly it exhibits small warts or tubercles. The pores are small 

 and numerous. 



The mouth is large and the upper jaw emarginated. The tongue 

 is rather narrow and elongated, ovoid in its outline, and free upon the 

 posterior third of its length. The inner nostrils are distant, situated 

 close to the jaw, subtransverse and oblong in shape. The openings 

 of the Eustachian tubes are much smaller than the inner nostrils. 



The limbs are well developed, although of a slender appearance. 

 The fingers are depressed and tapering to a point ; the first is longer 



