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Show 1880.] PALJEARCTIC AND .ETHIOPIAN TOADS. 569 8. BUFO VULGARIS, Laurenti. BujO terrestris, Rose], Hist. Ran. p. 85, pl. 20-21 (1758). Bana bufo, Linne, Syst. Nat. 12th ed. i. p. 354 (1766). Rana rubeta, Linne, /. c. p. 354. Bufo vulgaris, Laurenti, Syn. Rept. p. 28 & 125 (1768) ; Daudin, Hist. Rain. Gren. Crap. p. 72, pl. 24 (1802); Daudin, Hist. Rept. viii. p. 139 (1803) ; Eichwald, Zool. spec. Ross. Polon. p. 167 (1831); Bonaparte, Faun. Ital. (1832); Bell, Brit. Rept. p. 105 (1839) ; Dumeril & Bibron, Erp. Gen. viii. p. 671 (1841) ; Guichenot, Expl. Sc. Alg. Rept. p. 27 (1850) ; Giinther, Cat. Batr. Sal. p. 55 (1858) ; Straueh, Mem. Ac. Sc. St. Petersb. ser. 7. vii. p. 79 (1863); Giinther, Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 419 (1864); Fatio, Vert. Suisse, iii. p. 587 (1872) ; Lataste, Herp. Gir. p. 283, pl. xi. (1876) ; Schreiber, Herp. Eur. p. 134 (1875); De Betta, Faun. Ital. Rett. Anf. p. 72 (1875) ; Levdig, An. Batr. p. 12 (1877); Lessona, Atti Ac. Lincei, Mem. Cl. Sc. Fis. etc. i. p. 1080, pl. iv. (1877). Bufo cinereus, Schneider, Hist. Amph. f. i. p. 185 (1799); Daudin, Hist. Rain. Gren. Crap. p. 73, pl. 25 (1802) ; Daudin, Hist. Rept. viii. p. 141 (1803); Merrem, Syst. Amph. p. 182(1820). Bufo rubeta, Schneider, I. c. p. 227. Bufo roeselii, Daudin, Hist. Rain. Gren. Crap. p. 77, pl. 27 (1802); Daudin, Hist. Rept. viii. p. 150, pl. 96 (1803). Bufo ventricosus, Daudin, Hist. Rain. Gren. Crap. p. 83, pl. 30 (1802) ; Daudin, Hist. Rept. viii. p. 168 (1803) ; Merrem, Syst. Amph. p. 131 (1820). Bufo spinosus, Daudin, Hist. Rept. viii. p. 199 (1803). Bufo palmarum, Cuvier, Regne Anim. 2nd ed. ii. p. 109 (1829). Bufo colchicus, Eichwald, Zool. spec. Ross. Polon. p. 167 (1831). Bufo vulgaris japonicus, Schlegel, Faun. Japon. Rept. p. 106, pl. ii. (1833) ; Lataste, Le Naturaliste, 2nd year, p. 219 (1880). Bufo gargarizans, Cantor, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ix. p. 483 (1842). Bufo commutatus, Steenstrup, Ber. 24. Versamml. deutsch. Naturf. etc. Kiel, p. 134 (1846). Bufo griseus, Hallowell, Proc. Ac. N. Sc. Philad. 1860, p. 506. Bufo japonicus, Camerano, Atti Ac. Sc. Torino, xiv. p. 884 (1879). Characters.-Crown of the head without bony ridges. Snout short, blunt. Interorbital space broad. Tympanum small, round, often indistinct. Parotoids elliptic, rather elongate, very prominent. Fingers rather short, with two-rowed subarticular tubercles, first extending scarcely beyond second. Hind limbs moderate; no large gland on the calf; no tarsal fold ; toes moderate, at least half-webbed, with two-rowed subarticular tubercles. Upper parts with more or less prominent indistinctly porous warts. Above brown- or blackish-spotted ; parotoids blackish-margined. Beneath whitish, more or less black- spotted. Male without vocal sac. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1880, No. XXXVIII. 38 |