294 BUFONIBiE. 



Bufo cruciatus, Schneid. Hist. Amph. fasc. i. p. 193. 



cursor, Daud. Rept. viii. p. 164. 



vii'idis, part., Dum. 8f Sihr. p. 681. 



Epidalea calamita, Cope, Nat. Hist. Rev. 1865, p. 102 



Crown without bony ridges; snout short, blunt; interorbital, 

 space narrower than the upper eyelid ; tympanum small, more or 

 less indistinct. First finger not extending beyond second; toes 

 webbed at the base, with double subarticular tubercles ; two mode- 

 rate metatarsal tubercles ; a tarsal fold. Hind limb short ; it being 

 carried forwards along the body, the tarso-metatarsal articulation 

 reaches generally the hinder edge of the eye in males, the shoulder 

 in females. Upper parts with irregular, depressed, distinctly porous 

 warts ; parotoids small, oval or subtriangular, depressed ; a parotoid- 

 like gland on the calf. Olive-marbled or spotted above ; generally 

 a yellow vertebral line ; beneath more or less black-spotted. Male 

 with a subgular vocal sac. 



Europe. 



Bufo raddei, Straiich, Voy. Przewalski, Sept. Sf Batr. p. 63 ; Lataste, 

 Rev. Int. Sc. 1878, p. 437 ; Bovleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880, p. 551. 



Crown without bony ridges; snout short, blunt; interorbital 

 space narrower than the upper eyelid ; tympanum very distinct, half 

 the width of the eye. First finger not extending beyond second ; 

 toes shortly webbed, with simple subarticular tubercles ; two meta- 

 tarsal tubercles, the outer much smaller than the inner ; a tarsal 

 fold. Hind limb short ; it being carried forwards along the body, 

 the tarso-metatarsal articulation marks generally the eye in males, 

 the tympanum in females. Upper parts with irregular, depressed, 

 distinctly porous warts ; parotoids rather large, very variable in 

 shape ; a parotoid-like gland on the calf. Light olive above, 

 marbled or spotted with brown or blackish ; a light vertebral stripe ; 

 beneath generally unspotted. Male with a subgular vocal sac. 

 Eastern temperate Asia. 



a-b.d&Jg- Sungatschi. St. Petersburg Museum. 



c-4. cJ , 2 , & hgr. Ohefoo. R. Swiuhoe [P.]. 



21. Bufo latastii. (Plate XIX. fig. 2.) 



Crown without bony ridges; snout short, blunt; interorbital 

 space narrower than the upper eyelid ; tympanum very distinct, 



