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BUFO ERYTHRONOTUS. 



Plate XXI. 



Characters. Head short, rather pointed; body short and thick, brick-dust 

 colour above, dirty yellowish-white and granulated beneath. Length, I5 inches. 



Description. The head is short, brownish-red above, with the supercihary 

 ridges but slightly elevated and the snout rather pointed. The upper jaw is 

 brown, with a few reddish-white spots; the lower jaw is white. The nostrils are 

 small and near the snout, with a slight ridge extending to the front of the orbit. 

 The eyes are very large and prominent, with a black pupil and bright golden iris, 

 through which passes a black band. The tympanum is small, brown below and 

 red above. The post tympanal glands are kidney shaped, and secrete a greyish- 

 white fluid. The body is short, thick, and rounded, warty or granulated above, 

 of Spanish broAvn colour, with a light vertebral line. The throat and chest are 

 silvery-white, with small dusky spots; the abdomen yellowish-white, and minutely 

 granulated. 



The anterior extremities are small, pepper-and-salt grey above, with alternate 

 transverse bars of brick dust colour and black; there are four fingers, distinct, and 

 nearly of equal length, with a very large knob or wart at the carpus, and a smaller 

 one beside it. The posterior extremities are short, and coloured like the anterior; 

 there are five toes semi-palmate, the fourth longest; there are also two prominences, 

 or warts, at the tarsus. 



Dimensions. Length of body from snout to vent, \\ inches; of thigh, 6 lines; 

 of leg, 6 lines; of tarsus and toes, 6 lines. 



