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This is the smallest known species-of the genus Bufo. Tbe measure- 

 ments of an adult are as follows-. 



M. 



Length of licacl and body 027 



Length of head to posterior edges of tympana 007 



Width of head at posterior edges of tympana 0086 



Length of anterior leg 0146 



Length of anterior foot 006 



Length of posterior leg from groin 0237 



Length of tibia , 0086 



Length of tarsns 005 



Length of rest of foot 0085 



In some specimens tbe transverse i)osterior part^of the frontoparietal 

 crest is broken up. It then resembles the young of the Bufo Untigino- 

 sus, with which it has been supposed to be identical hy various authors. 

 It, however, differs from this species in the differently shaped i)arotoul 

 glands, the thickened posterior parts of the mandibles, and from all 

 the subspecies, except the B. I. tvoodJiousci, in the shorter head. There 

 is no doubt but that Dr. Holbrook was correct in regarding tliis as a 

 distinct species of very small size. The redescriittion of the specit-s by 

 myself was due to the omission of its characteristic i»eculiarities from 

 extant writings. The erroneous locality (Sandwich Islands) is one of 

 several such errors, based on the incorrect«labeling of the collections of 

 J. n. Towusend, to which the-. specimen belonged. 



Tlie geographical distribution of this species is restricted to the 

 region extending from Kinston, K. C, to Middle Georgia and Florida, 

 inclusive. 



Bufo quercicus Holbrook. 

 RESERVE SERIES. 



Catalogue 



No.ot 



pumber. 



spec. 



.^lOU 



5 



8343 



1 



9695 



1 



99<I5 



4 



2626 



3 



2625 



3 



11394 



2 



Localltv. 



When 

 collected. 



From wbom received. 



Nature of spec- 

 imen. 



Georgia 



Kinston, N. C 



Arlington, Fla 



Little Sarasota Bay, Fla. 



Georgia 



Cliaileston, S. C 



Milton, Fla ... 



Mav 1,1878 

 1875 

 1855 



1881 



Mai. J. TJe Conte . 



.]. W. Miluer 



G. Brown Goode . 

 Prof. F. B. Meek . 

 Maj . J. Le Conto 

 Dr. S. B. Barker.. 

 S. T. Walker 



Alcoholic. 

 Uo. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 



BUFO VALLICEPS Wiegm. 



Bufo V all i cejys \Niegm., Isis, 1833, p. 657; Peters, Mou. Berl. Ac, 1863, p. 81; Bou- 



lenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., 2d ed., p. 319. 

 Bufo granulosus Baird & Ginird, Proceerl. Ac. Phila., 1852, p. 173. 

 Biifo tieb ul if er G\ran\, Proceed. Ac. Phila., 1854, p. 87; Hallow., Ibid., 1850, p. 308; 



Girard, U. S. Mex. Bonud. Snrv., ii, p. 25, PI. 40, fig. 1-4 ; Giintli., Cat. Brit. Mus., 



p. 66. 

 CMlophryne vebuliftra Cope, Proceed. Ac. Phila., 1802, p. 357. 



Postorbital ridge forming an open angle with the supraorbital ; pre- 

 orbital distinct; supraorbital strong, nearly plane, If the strong supra- 



