92 B A T R A C H I A. 



chestnut are observed on the upper surface of the limbs, much more 

 conspicuously posteriorly than anteriorly. The inferior surface ap- 

 pears as if washed with yellowish-white ; a black line may be observed 

 along the middle of the belly. 



Obtained on the coast of Peru. 



8. BuFO MELANOSTiCTUS, Schn. 



(Plate V, figs. 10^14.) 



Spec. Char. — Upper surface of head ridged; canthus rostralis ele- 

 vated. Parotids large. Tympanum moderate. Membranous 

 tarsal fold. Toes semi-palmated. Skin pustulous. Reddish-brown 

 above j reddish-yellow beneath, dotted with black. 



Syn. — Biffo melanostictus, Schn. Hist. Amph, I, 1799, 216. — GraVenH. Delic. 

 Mus. Zool. Yratisl. Amph. 1829, 57. 



JBufo scaler, Daud. Hist. nat. Kept. VIII, 1803, 194 ; et Hist. nat. Rain. Gren. & 

 Crap. 1803, 94, PI. xxxiv, fig. 1.— Latr. Hist. nat. Kept. II, 1801, 134.— Tsch. Mem. 

 Soc. Sci. nat. Neuch. II, 1838, 88.— Dum. & B. Erpet. gen. VIII, 1841, 699. 



Bufo bengalcnsis, Daud. Hist. nat. Kept. VIII, 1803, 197; et Hist. nat. Rain. Gren. 

 & Crap. 1803, 94, PI. xxxv, fig. 1. 



Bvfo carinafus, Gray, lUustr. Ind. Zool. I, 1832, PL LXXXIII, fig. 1. 



£nfo duhia, Gray, Illustr. Ind. Zool. I, 1832, PI. lxxxiii, fig. 2. 



Orapmul du Bengale, Less. Voy. de Belanger, Ind. Orient. Zool, 1834, 335. 



Observ.-— The few specimens of this species, caught at the southern 

 extremity of the Peninsula of Bengal, being immature, it is but after 

 a long and protracted examination and comparison with the descrip- 

 tions of the writers upon this subject that we have come to their iden- 

 tification. The task has proved the more difficult as we lack an accurate 

 figure of the adult animal. The only one extant is given by Daudin, 

 under the name of B. hengalensis, which is identical with B. scaher, 

 figured by the same author, but so poorly as to render it of no avail 

 in a critical point of view. 



In order to afford naturalists the means of identifying with accuracy 

 the species now before us, we have caused figures to be made, 

 although the specimens are immature. Should we have mistaken 



