1. BUl’O ;CARENS. .
2. BDFO VER.TEBRALIS. 2a UnRer Surface
(Reptilia Plate 68)‘V
BUFO CAREN S v-y-S u n d e r w a l l .
Reptilia.—P late LXV1II. F ig. 1.
B. supeme, subgranulosus; lateribus plica longitudinal© verrucisque magnis rugosis; glandulis
parotideis nullis; extremitatibus posterioribus externe verrucosis; dorso maculis circularibus duabus
verido-nigris notato; extremitatibus parce fasciis subnigris variegatis.
Colour.—The upper surface of the head anteriorly, the eye-shields, and the
sides of the head intermediate between oil-green and ochre-yellow ; the
ground colour of the hind-head, the back, the upper portion of the sides, and
the outer surface of the hinder legs, light blackish green, freckled with ochre-
yellow or yellowish brown, the warts or granulations on the surface being the
one or other of these colours ; many of the larger warts have a small reddish
orange spot at or about their centre. Besides these variegations, the back is
also marked with two circular spots of a greenish black colour, about a line
and a half in diameter, one on each side of the vertebral line and situated
about the commencement of the last third of the back. The fore-legs are
crossed by two bars of the same colour as the spots of the back, and at the
commencement of the tarsus there is also an irregular indistinct blotch of the
same hue. The upper surface of the tarsi, and the outer surface of the forelegs
dull oil-green, the second joint of latter variegated with two transverse
greenish black bars, and the upper surface of the feet sparingly freckled or
clouded with a lighter tint of the same colour ; tubercles of the under surface
of the feet and toes sienna-yellow. The cuticular fold which extends along
each side of the body, the inner surface of the extremities, and all
the under parts, intermediate between ochre-yellow and yellowish brown;—
the fold is edged above by a narrow, irregular greenish line which commences
at the tympanum and terminates a little in front of the base of the
hinder extremities. Tympanum pale greyish brown, tinged with green. The
iris appears to have been greyish green with a metallic lustre.
Form, &c.—Figure moderately robust; head short, broad posteriorly,
anterior to eyes rather narrow, the nose truncate and nearly vertical; nostril
ovate, one at each angle of the muzzle, the opening directed outwards and
backwards. Eye-shields convex and raised ; tympanum large, nearly circular,
close to the eye, its upper margin almost in contact with the outer canthus;
parotid glands wanting. When the fore-legs are placed along the sides of
the body, the point of inner toe reaches to the base of the hinder legs, the
first or outer toe is a little longer than the third or fourth, which are