350 THE BATEACHIANS OP EGYPT. 
Series B. A R C I F E R A. 
BUFONID.E. 
BUFO. 
Bufo, Laurenti, Syn. Rept. 1768, p. 25, part.; Blgr. Cat. Batr. Sal. B. M. 1882, p. 281. 
Tongue free, entire, not retractile posteriorly ; no vomerine teeth ; pupil horizontal ; 
tympanum distinct or hidden by the skin, rarely absent ; parotoids present or absent ; 
head with or without bony ridges ; skin generally more or less warty ; fingers free ; 
toes more or less webbed, with simple or slightly dilated tips ; external metatarsi not 
separated by a web ; omosternum generally absent ; sternum either cartilaginous or with 
a fibro-cartilaginous or nearly bony style ; diapophyses of sacral vertebra more or less 
dilated ; coccyx attached by two condyles. 
(Toads without cranial ridges.) 
Bufo vikidis, Laur. (Plate L. fig. 2.) 
Bufo viridis, Laur. Syn. Rept. 1768, p. 27 et p. Ill, pi. i. fig. 1 ; Sparrmann, Vetensk. Ak. Hand. 
Stoekh. xvi. 1795, p. 183, pi. vii. ; Schn. Hist. Amph. i. 1799, p. 200; Latr. Hist. Rept. ii. 
1800, p. 115 ; Hist. Salam. de France, 1800, p. xli; Daud. Hist. Rain. 1802, p. 79, pi. 28. 
fig. 2 j Daud. Hist. Rept. viii. 1803, p. 156; Licht. Doubl. Berl. Mus. 1823, p. 106; Bibron 
& Bory de St. Vincent, Exped. Sc. Moree, Zool. Rept. &c. iii. l re pt. 1833, p. 75, pi. xv. 
3 e ser. fig. 2 <J & fig. 3 ? ; Gene, Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Torino, ser. 2, i. 1839, p. 280; Bonap. 
Icon. Fauna Ital. ii. 1838, pi. fig. 1 ; part., Dum. & Bibr. viii. 1841, p. 681 ; Guichen., 
Lefebvre, Voy. Alger, v. 1850, p. 27; Gimther, Cat. Batr. Sal. 1858, p. 58; Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1859, p. 470; Strauch, Mem. Ac. St. Petersb. (vii.) iv. no. 7, 1862, p. 79; Steind. Unger 
& Kotschy's Insel Cypern, 1865, p. 572; Steind. Novara Amph. 1867, p. 39; Carruccio, 
AttiSoc. Ital. Sc. Nat. xii. 1869, p. 567; Collin, Natnr. Tids. (3) vi. 1869, p. 336; Westph.- 
Castelnau, Cat. Rept. 1869, p. 54; Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxxix. pt. ii. 1870, 
p. 155 ; Anderson, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xl. pt. ii. 1871, p. 38 ; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 402 
Fatio, Vert. Suisse, Rept. et Batr. iii. 1872, p. 411; Koch, Ber. Senck. Ges. 1872, p. 170 
Stoliczka, Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 1872, p. 113; De Betta, Faun. Ital., Rett. Anfib. pt. iv 
1874, p. 74; Blanford, East. Persia, ii. (Zool.) 1876, p. 434; Lessona, Atti Ac. Line. Mem 
CI. Sc. Fis. i. 1877, p. 1085, pi. 4 ; Blanf. Second Yarkand Miss., Rept. & Batr. 1878, p. 26 
Blgr. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880, p. 553, pi. l. ; Blgr. Cat. Batr. Sal. B. M. 1882, p. 297 ; Miiller 
Verh. naturf. Ges. Basel, vii. 1882, p. 137 ; Camerano, Mem. Ac. Torino, (2) xxxv. 1884, p. 229 
Compt. Rend. Assoc. Fr. x. 1882, p. 690 ; Boettger, Abhand. Senck. Ges. xiii. 1884, p. 133 
