1880.] PALiEARCTIC AND ETHIOPIAN TOADS. 553 



The blackish rugosities on the inner side of the first three fingers are 

 like those of calatnita. 



Skeleton (from a single female specimen). — Differs slightly from. 

 that of jB. calamita. The skull is larger, its length being included 

 once and a third in that of the trunk. The fronto-parietal bones are 

 scarcely broader backwards than forwards. The zygomatic apophysis 

 of the temporomastoidians is more developed, measuring about half 

 the length of the mastoidian apophysis. 



Geographical Distribution. — Tins species represents in Eastern Asia 

 our B. calamita. Like it, it is very abundant on the sea-coast, the 

 numerous specimens sent from China to M. Lataste, by his friend 

 M. Collin de Plancy, having been collected on the sea-shore at Chefoo. 

 The typical specimens of Dr. Strauch come from the valley of the 

 Amour and from Daouria. 



3. BuFo viRiDis, Laurenti. 



Bufo viridis, Laurenti, Syn. Rept. pp. 27 & 111, pi. i. (1768) ; 

 Daudiu, Hist. Rain. Gren. Crap. p. 79, pi. 28. f. 2 (1802) ; Daudin, 

 Hist. Rept, viii. p. 156 (1803); Bonaparte, Faun. Ital. (1832); 

 Guichenot, Voy. Abyss. Lefebvre &c. part iv. Zool. p. 221 (1848) ; 

 Giinther, Cat. Batr. Sal. p. 58 (1858); Strauch, Mem. Ac. St. 

 Petersb. se'r. 7, iv. 7, p. 79(1862); Steindachner, Reise Novara, 

 Zool. i. p. 39 (1869) ; Fatio, Faune Vert. Suisse, iii. p. 411 (1872) ; 

 De Betta, Faun. Ital. Rett. Anf. p. 74 (1875); Lessona, Atti Ac. 

 Lincei, Mem. CI. Sc. Fis. &c., i. p. 1085, pi. iv. (1877). 



Bufo schreberianus, Laurenti, I. c. p. 27. 



Rana variabilis, Pallas, Spicil. Zool. vii. p. 1, pi. vi, f . 1 & 2 

 (1769). 



Bufo variabilis, Merrem, Syst. Amph. p. 180 (1820) ; Eichwald, 

 Zool. Spec. Ross. Pol. p. 167 (1831); Schreiber, Herp. Eur. p. 138 

 (1875); Leydig, An. Batr. p. 29 (1877). 



Bufo arabicus, Riippell, Reise nordl. Afr. Rept. p, 20, pi. v. f. 2 

 (1827). 



Bufo viridis, part., Dume'ril & Bibron, Erp. Gen. viii. p. 681 

 (1841). 



Bufo calamita, Giinther, Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 426 (1864). 



Bufo boulengeri, Lataste, Rev. Intern. Sc. 2nd year, p, 438 

 (1879). 



Bufo hemprichii, Fitzinger, MS. 



Characters. — Crown of the head without bony ridges. Snout 

 short, rather blunt. Interorbital space narrow. Ty^^^P^^"™ small, 

 round, distinct. Parotoids very variable in shape and in size, gene- 

 rally moderately elongate and kidney-shaped, depressed, sometimes 

 enormous. Fingers moderate, with generally two-rowed subarticular 

 tubercles ; first extending a little beyond second. Hind limbs mode- 

 rate ; parotoidiform gland on the calf absent, or more or less deve- 

 loped ; a cutaneous fold along the inner edge of the tarsus ; toes 

 moderate, half-webbed, with simple subarticular tubercles. Upper 

 parts with irregular, depressed, distinctly porous warts. Olive- or 



Proc. Zool. See— 1880, No. XXXVII. 37 



