. Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia s. Ecaudata in the ... British Museum. 322 toes entirely webbed ; no tarsal fold. Skin warty ; parotoids mode- rate, prominent, oblong; on eacb side of the back a series of larger tubercles. Above greyish, marbled with blackish brown ; yellowish grey beneath, here and there marbled with darker. Colombia. 67. Bufo coccifer. Bufo coccifer, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1866, p. 130, and Journ. Ac. Philad. (n. s.) viii. p. 100. Crown with strong bony ridge3, viz. a canthal, a preorbital, a supraorbital, a postorbital, an oblique parietal, and an orbito-
. Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia s. Ecaudata in the ... British Museum. 322 toes entirely webbed ; no tarsal fold. Skin warty ; parotoids mode- rate, prominent, oblong; on eacb side of the back a series of larger tubercles. Above greyish, marbled with blackish brown ; yellowish grey beneath, here and there marbled with darker. Colombia. 67. Bufo coccifer. Bufo coccifer, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1866, p. 130, and Journ. Ac. Philad. (n. s.) viii. p. 100. Crown with strong bony ridge3, viz. a canthal, a preorbital, a supraorbital, a postorbital, an oblique parietal, and an orbito-tym- panic ; snout narrowly rounded; tympanum one fifth orbit. Toes shortly webbed;, metatarsal tubercles small, obtusely prominent; tarsal fold scarcely visible. Heel to axilla. Everywhere minutely tubercular; parotoids round, semiglobular. Grey-brown ; a yellow vertebral line, with numerous chestnut-brown bands, one from parotoid and one from groin; under surfaces immaculate. Costa Rica. 68. Bufo d'orbignyi. Bufo d'orbignyi, Giinth. Cat. p. 67. Bufo d'orbignyi, Dum. 8f Bibr. p. 697 ; D'Orbiqny, Voy. Amer. merid. t. 15. f. 5-7 ; Hensel, Arch. f. Natimj. 1867",_p. 141. Chilophryne d'orbignyi, Fitzing. Syst. Hept. i. p. 32; Espada, Viaj. Pact/., Vert. p. 188'.. Lateral view of bead. Upper view of bead. Crown very concave, with very prominent ridges, viz. a canthal, a preorbital, a supraorbital, a postorbital, a parietal, and an orbito- tympanic; parietal ridges obliquely directed inwards; edge of the upper jaw dilated behind; snout very short, rounded; inter- orbital space much broader than the upper eyelid ; tympanum more or less distinct, about two thirds the width of the eye. First finger not extending beyond the second; toes half webbed, with double subarticular tubercles; two moderate metatarsal tubercles; no tarsal fold. The hind limb being carried forwards along the body, the tarso-metatarsal articulation reaches the shoulder or the tym- panum. Upper surfaces with sm
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