1925] St over: A Synopsis of the Amphibia of California 
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party from the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, of a stock of Aneides 
lugubris in the mountains of Monterey County, which resemble in con- 
siderable degree the island form, farallonensis. These animals are 
much more heavily spotted than the mainland stock and the general 
form of the body is more like that of farallonensis than lugubris. 
Ascaphiis true! Stejneger. American Bell-toad 
(Text figure KK) 
Ascaphus truei Stejneger (1899, pp. 899-901, pi. 89, 4 text figs.). Original 
description, type from Humptulips, Clielialis County, Washington. 
Ascaphus truei, Van Denburgh (1912c, pp. 259-264, 1 fig.). Habits in 
brief; external structure and osteology (based on Washington speci- 
mens) . 
Ascaphus truei, Grinnell and Camp (1917, p. 140). Occurrence in Siskiyou 
County, California. 
Ascaphus truei, Stejneger and Barbour (1917, p. 25; 1923, p. 22). General 
range. 
Ascaphus truei, Gaige (1920, pp. 1-10, pi. 1). Habits, eggs, larvae, and 
life-history in western Washington. 
Diagnosis. — Size small, head-and-body length (exclusive of ‘tail 7 ) 
up to 50 millimeters (2 inches) ; short tail-like process 6-8 mm. long, 
traversed by cloaca, present in males ; pupil of eye vertically elliptical ; 
tympanum absent ; digits very slender ; three tubercles in transverse 
row on palm; one (inner) metatarsal tubercle; outer (fifth) toe 
stoutest ; surfaces everywhere exceedingly smooth ; tongue disk-like, 
occupying whole floor of mouth, and broadly attached. 
Comparisons. — Distinguished from all other California Salientia 
by absence of tympanic membrane, by presence of vertically elliptical 
pupil together with absence of cutting spade on hind foot, by pres- 
ence of three palmar tubercles in transverse row, by very large size- 
and rounded form of tongue, and, in males, by presence of tail-like 
process at end of body. 
Description (based on specimens from Mason County, Washing- 
ton). — General form depressed; muzzle obtusely pointed in outline 
from above, flat-topped and abruptly rounded at tip in profile ; 
external nares about midway between tip of nose and orbit, very 
small, aperture nearly round ; canthus rostralis distinct between naris 
and orbit ; orbit moderate, pupil vertically elliptical ; interorbital space 
flat, its width about two-thirds length of orbit; no tympanic mem- 
brane ; parotoid glands low, imperfectly indicated, divergent poster- 
iorly ; lower jaw evenly rounded in outline ; no vocal sac ; gular fold 
small and incomplete ; dorsal surface of body evenly rounded ; fore 
limb slender ; fully half of upper arm free from body skin ; fore- 
arm about equal to hand in length ; three conspicuous tubercles in 
transverse row on palm of hand, inner one largest ; no sub'articular 
tubercles; fingers slender, third longest, second and fourth equal, 
inner shortest ; femur practically free from skin of body ; tibia slightly 
