. Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia s. Ecaudata in the collection of the British museum. Amphibians. 5. NECIE8. 327 tending in a nearly straight line to tte nares, with a slight thickening opposite the front of the orbit; a low, narrow postorbital ridge; no trace of tympanum. Digits of hands and feet enclosed in the skin, leaving the longest median digit projecting; inner digits of hands and feet rudimentary; no metatarsal tubercles; no tarsal fold. Hind limbs short. Skin with minute tubercles; parotoids very small, subrotimd. General colour black, above a little lighter, with a few darker
. Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia s. Ecaudata in the collection of the British museum. Amphibians. 5. NECIE8. 327 tending in a nearly straight line to tte nares, with a slight thickening opposite the front of the orbit; a low, narrow postorbital ridge; no trace of tympanum. Digits of hands and feet enclosed in the skin, leaving the longest median digit projecting; inner digits of hands and feet rudimentary; no metatarsal tubercles; no tarsal fold. Hind limbs short. Skin with minute tubercles; parotoids very small, subrotimd. General colour black, above a little lighter, with a few darker spots on each side j sometimes a brown median dorsal band. Costa Rica. 5. NECTES. Pseudobufo, Tschudi, Batr. p. 87. Nectes, Cope, Nat. Hist. JRev. 1865, p. 103. Pupil horizontal. Tongue elliptical, entire and free behind. Palate smooth. Nostrils directed upwards. Tympanum distinct. Fingers free; toes webbed, the tips not dilated. Outer metatarsals united. No omosternum; sternum a cartilaginous plate, ossified along the centre. Diapophyses of sacral vertebra rather strongly dilated. Terminal phalanges simple. Java. 1. Nectes snbasper. Pseudobufo subasper; Tschudi, I. c. Nectes subasper, Cope, I, Lateral view of head. Upper view of head. Head rather small; snout prominent, obliquely truncate; loreal regions nearly vertical; nostrils small, tear-shaped, close together near the end of the snout, directed upwards; upper eyelid rather narrow; interorbital space broad; tympanum perfectly distinct, three fourths the diameter of the eye. Fingers slender, pointed, first shorter than second; toes rather long, pointed, united to the tips by a very broad membrane; no subarticular tubercles; two very indistinct, flat metatarsal tubercles; a rather indistinct fold along the inner edge of the tarsus. The hind limb being carried forwards along the body, the tarso-metatarsal articulation reaches. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitall
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