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  Bomhinator 
  pachypas, 
  becomes 
  restricted 
  to 
  the 
  hills. 
  

   It 
  by 
  no 
  means 
  avoids 
  the 
  dwellings 
  of 
  man, 
  and 
  may 
  

   be 
  found 
  in 
  great 
  numbers 
  in 
  old 
  walls 
  of 
  villages 
  as 
  

   well 
  as 
  in 
  gardens 
  and 
  waste 
  grounds 
  of 
  towns. 
  It 
  is 
  

   still 
  to 
  be 
  met 
  with 
  in 
  the 
  Jardin 
  des 
  Plantes, 
  where 
  it 
  

   was 
  first 
  discovered 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  last 
  century. 
  

  

  Four 
  specimens 
  are 
  figured 
  on 
  PL 
  YII, 
  viz. 
  a 
  male 
  

   from 
  Paris, 
  laden 
  with 
  eggs 
  ; 
  a 
  female 
  from 
  Liege, 
  on 
  

   the 
  left 
  hand 
  ; 
  a 
  young 
  albino 
  from 
  Genevilliers 
  near 
  

   Paris, 
  reared 
  by 
  M. 
  Lataste 
  ; 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  right 
  hand 
  a 
  

   specimen 
  from 
  Valencia, 
  Spain 
  (var. 
  bosc^). 
  

  

  5. 
  Alytes 
  01 
  stern 
  ash. 
  

   (Plate 
  VIII.) 
  

  

  Alytes 
  cisternasi, 
  Bosca, 
  An. 
  Soc. 
  Esp., 
  viii, 
  1879, 
  p. 
  217; 
  Bou- 
  

   lenger, 
  Cat. 
  Batr. 
  Ecaud., 
  p. 
  449 
  (1882) 
  ; 
  Heron-Royer 
  <^ 
  

   Van 
  Bambeke, 
  Arch. 
  Biol., 
  ix, 
  1889, 
  p. 
  289; 
  Bedriaga, 
  Bull. 
  

   Soc. 
  Nat. 
  Mosc, 
  1889, 
  p. 
  617, 
  Amph. 
  Rept. 
  Portug., 
  p. 
  27 
  

   (1889), 
  and 
  Lavves 
  Batr. 
  Portug., 
  p. 
  141 
  (1891) 
  ; 
  Boulengei-, 
  

   Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc, 
  1891, 
  p. 
  624, 
  pi. 
  xlvii, 
  fig. 
  8. 
  

  

  Ammorydis 
  cisternasi, 
  Lataste, 
  0. 
  R. 
  Ac. 
  Sc, 
  Ixxxviii, 
  1879, 
  p. 
  

   983; 
  Bosca, 
  Bull. 
  Soc. 
  Zool. 
  France, 
  1880, 
  p. 
  252, 
  and 
  An. 
  

   Soc. 
  Esp., 
  X, 
  1881, 
  pi. 
  ii, 
  figs. 
  1 
  — 
  6. 
  

  

  Vomerine 
  teeth 
  in 
  two 
  transverse 
  series, 
  widely 
  sepa- 
  

   rated 
  from 
  each 
  other 
  in 
  the 
  middle, 
  behind 
  tlie 
  choanse 
  ; 
  

   these 
  series 
  often 
  slightly 
  oblique, 
  

   formiog 
  together 
  an 
  angle 
  pointing- 
  

   forwards. 
  Tongue 
  large, 
  circular, 
  

   slightly 
  free 
  behind. 
  

  

  Head 
  large, 
  moderately 
  depressed, 
  

   much 
  broader 
  than 
  long 
  ; 
  snout 
  round- 
  

   ed, 
  projecting, 
  shorter 
  than 
  the 
  dia- 
  

   meter 
  of 
  the 
  orbit 
  ; 
  canthus 
  rostralis 
  

   rounded, 
  loreal 
  region 
  grooved 
  ; 
  nos- 
  

   tril 
  nearer 
  the 
  tip 
  of 
  the 
  snout 
  than 
  

   the 
  eye 
  ; 
  eye 
  large, 
  very 
  prominent 
  ; 
  

   interorbital 
  space 
  broader 
  than 
  the 
  upper 
  eyelid, 
  as 
  

  

  Fig. 
  64. 
  

  

  Open 
  mouth. 
  

  

  