322 BirroNiD^. 



. toes entirely webbed ; no tarsal fold. Skin warty ; parotoids mode- 

 rate, prominent, oblong ; on each side of the back a series of larger 

 tubercles. Above greyish, marbled with blackish brown ; yellowish 

 grey beneath, here and there marbled with darker. 

 Colombia. 



67. Bufo coccifer. 



Bufo coccifer, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1866, p. 130, and Joum. Ac. 

 Philad. (n. s.) viii. p. 100. 



Crown with strong bony ridges, viz. a canthal, a preorbital, a 

 supraorbital, a postorbital, an oblique parietal, and an orbito-tym- 

 panic ; snout narrowly rounded ; tympanum one fifth orbit. Toes 

 shortly webbed; metatarsal tubercles small, obtusely prominent; 

 tarsal fold scarcely visible. Heel to axilla. EveryTvhere minutely 

 tubercular ; parotoids round, semiglobular. Grey-brown ; a yellow 

 vertebral line, with numerous chestnut-brown bands, one from 

 parotoid and one from groin ; under surfaces immaculate, 



Costa Eica. 



68. Bufo d'orbignyi. 



Bufo d'orbignyi, Gunth. Cat. p. 67. 

 Bufo d'orbignyi, Dtim. 8f Bibr. p. 697 ; D'Orbigny, Voy. AmAr. m4rid. 



t. 15. f. 5-7 ; Sensel, Arch./. Nature/. 1867, p. 141. 

 Ohilophryne d'orbignyi, Fitdng. Syst. Rept. \. p. 32; E^ada, Viaj. 



Padf., Vert. p. 188. 



Lateral view of head. Upper view of head. 



Crown very concave, with very prominent ridges, viz. a canthal, 

 a preorbital, a supraorbital, a postorbital, a parietal, and an orbito- 

 tympanic ; parietal ridges obliquely directed inwards ; edge of 

 the upper jaw dilated behind; snout very short, rounded; inter- 

 orbital space much broader than the upper eyelid ; tympanum more 

 or less distinct, about two thirds the width of the eye. First finger 

 not extending beyond the second ; toes half webbed, with double 

 subartioular tubercles ; two moderate metatarsal tubercles ; no 

 tarsal fold. The hind limb being carried forwards along the body, 

 the tarso-metatarsal articulation reaches the shoulder or the tym- 

 panum. Upper surfaces with small, frequently spinous warts; 

 parotoids very small, suhtriangular or rounded, sometimes scarcely 

 distinct. ^Brownish olive, with indistinct darker spots; a Ught- 



