4. Buro. 287 



rather indistinct. Limbs slender; the hind limb being carried 

 forwards along the body, the tibio-tarsal articulation reaches nearly 

 the tip of the snout. First finger a little shorter than second ; toes 

 half-webbed, with simple subarticular tubercles ; tips of fingers and 

 toes swollen into small disks ; two small metatarsal tubercles ; no 

 tarsal fold. Skin covered with small tubercles ; two small parotoids 

 on each side, one on the neck, the other one near the shoulder. 

 Blackish brown above, with white spots ; beneath marbled with 

 brown. 

 Java. 



a. Bad state, Java. 



2. Bufo brevipes. 



Hylaplesia brevipes, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1867, p. 34. 



First finger very short. Tips of fingers and toes dilated into well- 

 developed disks. No metatarsal tubercles. The hind limb being 

 carried forwards along the body, the tarso-metatarsal articulation 

 marks the centre of the eye. Otherwise as in B. borlonicus. 



Zamboanga. 



3. Bufo leptopus. (Plate XVIII. fig. 4.) 

 Bufo leptopus, part.*, Gunth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 598. 



Habit slender. Crown without bony ridges ; head small ; snout 

 obliquely truncate, with angular canthus rostraUs ; loreal region 

 vertical ; 'interorbital space slightly broader than the upper eyelid ; 

 tympanum distinct, not quite half the width of the eye. Fore limb 

 slender, as long as the distance between the eye and the vent ; 

 fingers slender, first and second equal, the tips swollen into very 

 small disks. Hind limb slender, the tarso-metatarsal articulation 

 reaching far beyond the tip of the snout; toes slightly webbed at 

 the base, the tips dilated into very small disks ; subarticular tubercles 

 none; two rather indistinct metatarsal tubercles; no tarsal fold. 

 Skin covered with small warts and tubercles ; parotoids none. 

 Brown above, marbled with reddish ; throat and chest blackish. 



Borneo. 



a. $. Matang. (Type.) 



6. $. Matang. 



4. Bufo penangensisi 



Ansonla penangensis, Stolicxka, Joum. As. Soc. 1870, p. 162, pi. 9. 

 f. 4. 



Habit slender. Crown, without bony ridges ; snout short and 

 blunt ; tympanum distinct, ^m^Uef.thaj the eye ; fingers long, first 



« Ihe adult only. 



