304 



BTTPONID^. 



Buf cornmutatus, Sieenstr. Ber. 24. Vera, deutsch. Naturf. 8fc. Kiel, 



p. 134. 

 — — griseus, Hallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 506. 

 — — japonioua, Camerano, Atti Ac. Tor. xiv. 1879, p. 884. 



Crown without bony ridges ; snout short, blunt ; interorbital 

 space broader than the upper eyelid ; tympanum small, round, often 

 indistinct. First finger extending scarcely beyond second ; toes at 

 least half webbed ; subartioular tubercles double ; two moderate 

 metatarsal tubercles ; no tarsal fold. The hind limb being carried 

 forwards along the body, the tarso-metatarsal articulation reaches 

 generally the eye in the male, the shoulder in the female. Upper 

 parts with more or less prominent, often spinose, not distinctly 

 porous warts ; parotoids elliptic, rather elongate, very prominent. 

 Brownish above, spotted or marbled with darker ; beneath whitish, 

 more or less spotted with black ; parotoids margined on their outer 

 side with black, which in Chinese and Japanese specimens extends 

 as a vitta along the upperside of the flank?. Male without vocal 

 sac. 



Europe ; Asia ; N.W. Africa. 



a. Skeleton. 

 h. $. 



e. ?. 

 f.6. 

 ff-h.2- 

 i. ?. 



h,i. s2- 



m~n. (J 5. 



p. Stuffed. 

 q-4. c?2. 



U, V, w. 2 ^ ^ff"*- 



x-l/,z-a. $,hgr.,&yg. 



P-€. Hgr. & yg. 



C, r,-6. 2 & hgr. 



i-K. Hgr. 



X-|. 6, S,&hgr. 



... 3- 



37. Bufo tuberosus. 



Bufo tuberosus, Oiintli. Cat. p. 60, pi. iii. f. 0. 

 Bufo tuberosus, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880, p. 572. ~ 



Crown without bony ridges ; snout short, prominent, obliquely 

 truncated ; interorbital space slightly concave, about as broad as the 

 upper eyelid ; tympanum distinct, about half the width of the eye. 

 Fingers slender, first much longer than second ; toes rather short, 

 webbed at the base ; subartioular tubercles very large and prominent, 

 simple ; two moderate metatarsal tubercles j no tarsal fold. The 

 hind limb being carried forwards along the body, the tarso-meta- 

 tarsal articulation reaches the tip of the snout in the male, between 



