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Genus BUFO Laurenti 
Bufo Laurenti, Syn. Kept. (1768) 25; Wagler Syst. Amph. (1830) 
206; Tschudi, Class. Batr. (1838) 88; Dumeril and Bibron, Erp. 
Gen. 8 (1841) 662; Gunther, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus. (1858) 55; 
Cope, Nat. Hist. Rev (1865) 102; Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. 
Mus. ed. 2 (1882) 281; Stejneger, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 58 (1907) 
65. 
Hylaplesia BoiE, Isis (1827) 294; Peters, Mon. Berl. Ak. (1867) 34. 
Phrynoides COPE, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia (1863) 357. 
“Pupil horizontal. Tongue elliptic or pyriform, entire and 
free behind. Vomerine teeth none. Tympanum distinct or hid- 
den, seldom absent. Fingers free; toes more or less webbed, 
the tips simple or dilated into small disks. Outer metatarsals 
united. Omosternum generally missing; if present, cartilagi- 
nous; sternum a cartilaginous plate; sometimes more or less 
ossified along the median line. Diapophyses of sacral vertebra 
more or less dilated. Terminal phalanges obtuse or triangular.” 
{Boulenger.) 
Key to the Philippine species of Bufo Laurenti. 
a\ Crown without bony ridges; toes with well-developed disks. 
First finger shorter than second; toes half webbed; no metatarsal 
tubercles; two small parotoids on each side.... B. brevipes (Peters). 
6*. First finger much shorter than second, not any or but slight disks; 
toes webbed to the tips; no parotoids B. muelleri Boulenger. 
o’. Crown with bony ridges. 
b^. Cranial ridges distinct, curving behind eye to tympanum; no parietal 
ridges B. melanostictus Schneider. 
6®. Cranial ridges usually confluent with parietal ridges. 
B. philippinicus Boulenger. 
Bufo brevipes (Peters). 
Hylaplesia brevipes Peters, Mon. Berl. Ak. (1867) 34. 
Bufo brevipes Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus. ed. 2 (1882) 287; 
Boettger, Ber. Senck. Nat. Ges. (1886) 125; Casto de Elera, Cat. 
Fauna Filipinas 1 (1895) 452. 
Description of species. — Habit rather slender ; crown without 
bony ridges ; snout obliquely truncate with angular canthus ros- 
tralis; loreal region vertical; interorbital space broader than 
upper eyelid; tympanum rather distinct; sides of body thickly 
ornamented with tubercles; two small parotoid glands on each 
side, one on neck, the other near shoulder; foreleg reaches pos- 
terior end of body; first finger very short, projecting like a small 
tubercle; tips of fingers dilated into well-developed disks; third 
finger 2 millimeters in length ; palm of hand smooth ; first three 
