112 F. Stoliczka — On Indian BatracTiia. [June, 



(Proc. A. S. B., 1870, p. 83) as having been obtained by Major Beddome in 

 South India, and closely resembling G. guttulata, from which, however, the 

 present form differs, both in structm'e and in colour. 



23. Buro SiKKiMEis^sis, (Blyth). 



BomhinatoT Sikldmensis, Blyth. — Scutiger id. Theob. — Bi(,fo id., apud Anderson, 

 Proc. Z. S., 1871, p. 204. ^ 



Dr. Anderson is right in refering this species to Biofo, but he is entirely 

 mistaken in his statement, that the species only differs in its free toes and in 

 its slightly notched tongue from Bufo. If this were the case, there would 

 be rather good ground for a generic separation ; but none of these characters 

 exist. The toes, though very much shrunk, are nearly half webbed and the 

 tongue is entire, but its tip had been in Blyth's types so much pressed 

 against the palate that it formed a groove on it, and this was taken by Theo- 

 bald and Anderson for a slight notch. The tympanum is hidden, the para- 

 toids sometimes small, sometimes as well developed as in melanostictus, and 

 equal in length to the distance from the snout to the posterior edge of the 

 eye. The canthus rostralis is not ' round,' but rather sharp in fresh speci- 

 mens, and there is a short interrupted ridge in front of the eye and another 

 on the anterior edge of the eyelid. The nostrils are slightly swollen, and 

 nearer to the tip of the snout than to the eye (not ' half way' between the 

 two). The whole upper surface of the body is covered with small pointed 

 tubercles, between which on the back larger, spinous ones, are interspersed ; 

 the tubercles on the upper side of the tibise are of considerable size and larger 

 than those on the femora ; a few enlarged spines below the hidden tympa- 

 num ; sides of the body finely spinulosely tuberculated, and lower side rather 

 flatly granular. 



Upper side of back and limbs ashy or olive, with numerous more or less 

 confluent vinaceous brown spots, paratoids and the large tubercles distinctly 

 reddish ; snout olive, upper lip near the snout and loreal region, below the 

 eye and at the angle of the mouth each with a brown spot ; below, pale yel- 

 lowish throughout, usually densely marbled with olive brown. 



The species does not appear to be common in Sikkim ; I found a few 

 specimens around Darjiling at an elevation of about 7000 feet, in October,! 

 One, though a male, has not the callosities on the breast, as described in 

 the t3^pe specimen ; it is probable that they are only developed during the 

 breeding season, or after a certain age. 



24. Buro MELANOSTiCTUS, Schncid. 



This is an Indo-Malayan form ; it is found throughout India as far west] 



as the Indus,* but it is decidedly scarcer in the western, than it is in the 



* I have not seen specimens from Sind. 



