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The pupil is described as roundish or triangular ; 

 in its contracted condition it varies considerably 

 according to individuals. It is never absolutely 

 round, for it forms an angle below, whence a subtri- 

 angular form results. I have seen specimens in which 

 the vertical diameter somewhat exceeds the horizontal, 

 so that the fully contracted pupil might be termed 

 vertically pear-shaped, or, the upper border forming 

 an open angle, kite-shaped. 



1. DiscoGr.ossus pictus. 

 (Plate IV.) 



Oetti, Anf. o Pesc. Sard., iii, p. 38 (1777). 



Rana temporaria (non L.), Bozet, Voy. Alg., i, p. 230 (1833). 



Discoglossus pictus, Otth, N. Denkschv. allgem. Schweiz. Nat. 

 Ges., i, 1837, p. 6, figs. ; Tschndi, Class. Batr., p. 80 (1838) ; 

 Bonapai'te, Icon. Faun. Ital., Rett. Anf. (1838) ; Dumeiil & 

 Bibron, Ei-p. Gen., viii, p. 425 (1841); Giinthei-, Cat. Bati-. 

 Sal., p. 35 (1858); Strauch, Evp. Alg., p. 77 (1862) ; DeBetta, 

 Atti 1st. Venet. (3), xiii, 1868, p. 77, and Faun. Ital., Rett. 

 Anf., p. 67 (1874) ; Scliveibev, Herp. Eur., p. 112 (1875) ; 

 Oamei-ano, Atti Ace. Torin., xiv, 1879, p. 443, pi. — , figs. 

 6 — 8 ; Lataste, Act. Soc. Linn. Bord., xxxiii, 1879, p. 275, 

 pis. iii— V ; Bedriaga, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc, 1881, p. 292 ; 

 Bonlengei-, Cat. Batr. Ecaud.,p. 445 (1882); Camerano, Mem. 

 Ace. Torin. (2), xxxv, 1883, p. 204; Bedriaga, Arch. f. Nat., 

 1883, p. 254; Hcron-Royer, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1885, 

 p. 565, pi. xiv ; F. E. Schulzo, Sitzb. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berlin, 

 1886, pp. 5 and 31 ; Hcron-Royer & Van Bambeko, Arcb. 

 Biol., ix, 1889, p. 280; Bedriaga, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc, 

 1889, p. 545, and Amph. Rept. Portug., p. 22 (1889) ; Heron- 

 Royer, Bull. Soc. Et. Sc. Angers (2), six, 1889, p. 160, pis. i 

 and ii; Boulenger, Trans. Zool. Soc., xiii, 1891, p. 160, and 

 Proc. Zool. Soc, 1891, p. 620, pi. xlvii, fig. 3; Anderson, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc, 1892, p. 24; Bedriaga, Suppl. Amph. Port., 

 p. 13 (1893) ; Mina-Palumbo, Nat. Sioil., xii, 1893, p. 262. 



Discoglossus sardus, Tschudi, in Otth, 1. c, and Class. Batr., 

 p. 80 ; Bonaparte, 1. c. ; Camerano, Atti Ace. Torin., xiv, 

 1879, p. 437, pi. — , figs. 4 and 5. 



Pseudis sardoa, Gene, Syn. Rept. Sard., p. 24, pi. v, figs. 1—3 

 & 6 (1839). 



Banapicta, Schlegel, in Wagner, Reisen Alg., iii, p. 131 (1841). 



Colodaclylus cseruleseens, Tschudi, Faun. Per., Herp., p. 68, pi. xi, 

 fig. 2 (1845); Peters, Hon. Berl. Ac, 1873, p. 414, pi. iii, 

 fig. 1. 



Discoglossus scovazzii, Camerano, Atti Ace. Torin., xiii, 1878, 

 p. 548, and xiv, 1879, p. 447, pi. — , figs. 1—3. 



Discoglossus auritus, Heron-Royer, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1888, 

 pp. 205 and 220, and Bull. Soc. Et. Sc. Angers (2), xix, 1889, 

 p. 177, pis. i and ii. 



