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BUFO ERYTHRONOTUS. 



Plate II. 



Characters. Head short, rather pointed; upper jaw entire; body short and 

 thick, brick-dust colour above, dirty yellowish-white and granulated beneath. 

 Length, 20 lines. 



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

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

 entire, or without a notch, and brown, with a few reddish-white spots; the lower 

 jaw is white. The nostrils are small and near the snout, with a very 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 parotid glands are kidney- 

 shaped, and secrete a greyish-white fluid. The body is short, thick, and rounded, 

 warty or granulated above, of Spanish-brown colour, with a light vertebral line. 

 The throat and chest are silver-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 wart or knob 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 promi- 

 nences, or warts, at the tarsus. 



