344 Philippine Journal of Science 1920 
Measurements of Bufo melanostictus Schneider. 
Tip of snout to vent 84 
Tip of snout to anterior border of tympanum 20 
Nostril to tympanum 16 
Internaral width 5 
Interorbital width 8.5 
Longest diameter of tympanum 5.5 
Width of head 31 
Foreleg 50 
Hind leg, from vent to tip of longest toe 99 
Tibia 26 
Hind foot, from base of inner metatarsal tubercle to tip 
of longest toe 30 
Length of parotoid 20 
Width of parotoid 8 
Remarks . — This species is included on the strength of Boulen- 
ger’s record of a female specimen from ‘'Philippine Islands.” 
The fact that no further specimen has been taken in the Phil- 
ippines leads me to believe that it must be extremely rare here 
or that the record is in error. 
Bufo philippinicus Boulenger. Plate 9, fig. 5. 
Bufo philippinicus Boulenger, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. V 19 (1887) 
348, pi. 10, fig. 5; VI 14 (1894) 88. 
Bufo diver gens Mocquard, Nouv. Arch, du Mus. Ill 2 (1890) 158. 
Description of species . — (From No. R1760, Bureau of Science 
collection; collected at Taytay, Palawan, P. I., April, 1913, by 
L. E. Griffin.) Choans longer than wide, well in view; no 
vomerine teeth ; palate with a transverse denticulated bony ridge, 
more or less interrupted mesially ; head angular, distinctly wider 
than long; canthus rostralis with low bony crests, which con- 
tinue back between the eyes to occipital region, where they join 
the occipital ridges, become confluent with them, and make an 
angular turn inward; a branch is given off immediately behind 
eye which curves around, ending at the anterior outer edge of 
parotoid ; posterior part of bony crests higher and thicker than 
anterior part; distance between crests greatest just posterior to 
eye; eye large, its length equal to length of snout; eyelid pro- 
jecting strongly, its width about equal to interorbital space be- 
tween the bony crests; nostril much nearer tip of snout than 
eye ; canthus rostralis angular, sloping very gently ; loreal region 
not or but slightly concave; tympanum oval, its outline very 
distinct except on upper border, its diameter about two-thirds 
eye; distance between tympanum and eye equal to about half 
Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus. ed. 2 (1882) 307. 
