306 BTJFONID^. 



forwarda along tlie body, the tavso-metatarsal articulation reaches in 

 front of the eye, or the tip of the snoiit. Upper parts with irregular, 

 distinctly porous -warts ; parotoids very prominent, large, elongate, 

 at least as long as the head. Uniform brown. Male without vocal 

 sacs. 



Himalayas. 



a. cJ . Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



h-e. 3 2 . Sikkim. Dr. Hooker [P.]. 



d. Hgr. Sikkim. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 



e. $. Darjeeling. W.T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 

 f-g. cj 2 . Darjeeling. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. 



41. Bufo melauostictns. 



Buf melanostictus, Gunth. Cat. p. 61. 

 Bufo isos, Giinth. I. c. p. 62. 

 Bufo melanostictus, Schneid. Hist. Amph. p. 216 ; Gravenh. Delia. 



p. 57 I Cantor, Cat. Mai. Rept. p. 142 ; Girard, U.S. Expl. Exped., 



JSei-p. p. 92, pi. 6.f. 10-14; Gdnth. Bept. Brit. Lid. p. 422; Steinr 



daehn. Novara, Amph. p. 42; Stolicaka, Proc. As. Soc. 1870, 



p. 155. 

 scaber, Daud. Main. p. 94, pi. 34. f . 1, and Rept. viii. p. 194 ; 



Tschudi, Batr. p. 88 ; Dum. ^ Bihr. p. 699 ; Schleg. AbbUd. p. 64, 



pi. 20. f. 2. 

 bengalensis, Daud. Bain. p. 96, pi. 35^ f. 1, and Sept. viii. 



p. 197 ; Lesson, in Belang. Voy. Ind. Dr., Rept. p. 334. 



isos. Lesson, I. c. p. 333, pi. 7 ; Dum. §• Bibr. p. 702, 



dubia, {Sliaio) Gray, Ind. Zool. 



carinatus, Gray, I. c. 



gymnauohen, Bleeher, Nat. Tydsch: Nederl. Lid. 1858, xvi, 



p. 46. 

 Pbrynoidis melanostictus, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1863, p. 357, 

 Bufo spinipes, {Fitzing.) Steindachn. I. c. p. 43, pi. 6. f. 6. 



Head with more or less elevated bony ridges, viz. a canthal, a 

 preorbital, a supraorbital, a postorbital, and a short orbito-tym- 

 panic ; snout short, blunt ; interorbital space much broader than 

 the upper eyelid ; tympanum very distinct, at least two thirds the 

 width of the eye. First finger extending generally, but not always, 

 beyond second ; toes at least half webbed, with simple subartioular 

 tubercles; two moderate metatarsal tubercles; tarsal fold none 

 (sometimes present, according to Stoliczka). The hind limb being 

 carried forwards along the body, the ta,rso-metatarsal articulation 

 reaches the tympanum or the eye. Upper surfaces with more or 

 less prominent, generally spiny, warts ; parotoids very prominent, 

 kidney-shaped or elliptic, more or less elongate. Yellowish or 

 brownish above, the spines of the warts and the ridges of the head 

 generally black ; beneath immaculate or more or less spotted, 

 Male with a subgular vocal sac.'^'' 



E. Indies ; S. China. 



a. Hgr. Canton. Haslar Coll. 



b-c. S & hgr. Hongkong. J. C. Bowring, Esq. [P.]. 



