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Show 1880.] PALAEARCTIC A N D .ETHIOPIAN T O A D S . 553 The blackish rugosities on the inner side of the first three fingers like those of calamita. Skeleton (from a single female specimen).-Differs slightly from. that of B. calamita. The skull is larger, its length being included once and a third in that of the trunk. The fronto-parietal bones are scarcely broader backwards than forwards. The zygomatic apophysis of the temporomastoidians is more developed, measuring about half the length of the mastoidian apophysis. Geographical Distribution.-This species represents in Eastern Asia our B. calamita. Like it, it is very abundant on the sea-coast, the numerous specimens sent from China to M . Lataste, by his friend M. Collin de Plancy, having been collected on the sea-shore at Chefoo. The typical specimens of Dr. Straueh come from the valley of the Amour and from Daouria. 3. BUFO VIRIDIS, Laurenti. Bufo viridis, Laurenti, Syn. Rept. pp. 27 & 111, pl. i. (1768) ; Daudin, Hist. Rain. Gren. Crap. p. 79, pl. 28. f. 2 (1802); Daudin, Hist. Rept. viii. p. 156 (1803); Bonaparte, Faun. Ital. (1832); Guichenot, Voy. Abyss. Lefebvre &c. part iv. Zool. p. 221 (1848) ; Gunther, Cat. Batr. Sal. p. 58 (1858); Straueh, Mem. Ac. St. Petersb. se'r. 7, iv. 7, p. 79(1862); Steindachner, Reise Novara, Zool. i. p. 39 (1869) ; Fatio, Faune Vert. Suisse, iii. p. 411 (1872) ; De Betta, Faun. Ital. Rett. Anf. p. 74 (1875); Lessona, Atti Ac. Lincei, M e m . Cl. Sc. Fis. &e., i. p. 1085, pl. iv. (1877). Bufo schreberianus, Laurenti, I.e. p. 27. Rana variabilis, Pallas, Spicil. Zool. vii. p. 1, pl. vi. f. 1 & 2 (1769). Bufo variabilis, Merrem, Syst. Amph. p. 180 (1820) ; Eichwald, Zool. Spec. Ross. Pol. p. 167 (1831); Schreiber, Herp. Eur. p. 138 (1875); Leydig, An. Batr. p. 29 (1877). Bufo arabicus, Riippell, Reise nordl. Afr. Rept. p. 20, pl. v. f. 2 (1827). Buffo viridis, part., Dumeril & Bibron, Erp. Gen. viii. p. 681 (1841). Bufo calamita, Gunther, Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 426 (1864). Bufo boulengeri, Lataste, Rev. Intern. Sc. 2nd year, p. 438 (1879). Bufo hemprichii, Fitzinger, M S . Characters.-Crown of the head without bony ridges. Snout short, rather blunt. Interorbital space narrow. Tympanum small, round, distinct. Parotoids very variable in shape and in size, generally moderately elongate and kidney-shaped, depressed, sometimes enormous. Fingers moderate, with generally two-rowed subarticular tubercles; first extending a little beyond second. Hind limbs moderate ; parotoidiform gland on the calf absent, or more or less developed ; a cutaneous fold along the inner edge of the tarsus ; toes moderate, half-webbed, with simple subarticular tubercles. Upper parts with irregular, depressed, distinctly porous warts. Olive- or P R O C . Z O O L . Soc-1880, N o . X X X V I I . 37 |