210 PELOBATID^. 



brown spots ; caudal crests greyish^ more or less 

 distinctly spotted or freckled with brown. 



The coloration in life is described by Lataste as 

 reddish-yellow above, greyish or bluish-white beneath ; 

 tail with small brown spots. Some twenty years ago 

 I saw a number of large specimens in a small tank in 

 the Botanic Gardens at Bordeaux. My recollection 

 is that they were of a very pale brown, without distinct 

 markings. 



Total length 100 mm. ; body 39; tail 61 ; depth of 

 tail 25. 



According to Duges the size of the body may equal 

 a hen's egg. 



Habitat. — France, Spain, and Portugal. In France 

 this species has been found along the west -coast 

 to a little north of the mouth of the Loire, and in 

 the southern departments Haute-Garonne, Pyrenees- 

 Orientales, Aude, Herault, Gard, Bouches-du-Rhone, 

 and Vaucluse ; in Spain in the provinces Galicia, 

 Bstremadura, New Castille, Valencia, Andalusia ; and 

 in Portugal in the provinces Douro and Algarve. It 

 probably occurs, as stated by Bosca, all round the 

 coasts of the Pyrenean Peninsula. 



The record of the occurrence of Pelobates cultripcsm 

 Syria is due to a confusion with an allied species, 

 Pelohates syriacus, to which allusion is made above, 

 p. 11)2. 



The two specimens figured on PI. X were obtained 

 near Bordeaux by M. F. Lataste. 



PKINTED BT AnLiRD AND SON, 

 BAETHOLOMEW CLOSE, E.G., AND 20 UANOVEE SQUAEE, W. 



