460 DUNN. 



Range: Known only from type locality. 



Diagnosis: A Hynobius with short vomerine series; compressed 

 tail; 11 costal grooves; 5 toes; no dorsal light stripe on body or tail. 



Description: Having seen no specimens of this form I quote 

 the original description. " Allied to the Japanese Hynobius ncbulosus, 

 but with the series of vomerine teeth much shorter, extending back- 

 wards only to the middle of the eyeball. General habit short and 

 stout; head large, nearly as broad as long, its length being rather 

 more than one fourth the length of the trunk. Tail compressed in its 

 whole length, but without crest; body with eleven lateral folds. 

 The limbs meet when appressed; fifth toe well developed; no carpal 

 or tarsal tubercles. Skin smooth; gular fold indistinct. Nearly 

 uniform horny black, the lower parts brownish, finely marbled with 

 darker." 



Remarks: " Two specimens were collected by Mr. Pratt at Ichang." 

 This animal seems rather allied to H. leechii of Korea than to H. 



nebuJosus. The slight proportional differences, a less number of 



costal grooves in the Chinese species, and a broader head than H. 



leechii are about all that distinguish it. II. leechii has 13-14 costal 



grooves. 



Hynobius turkestanicus Nikolski. 



1909. Hynobius turkestanicus Nikolski, Charikov Trav. Sop. Nat., 43, p. 73; 

 1918, Faune de la Russe, p. 245, f. 47, pi. 4. f. 4. 



Type: Zool. Mus. Petrograd No. 2404, collected by V. Nikolski. 

 Type Locality: Russian Turkestan ("Pamirs of Samarkand," 

 Nikolski 1918). 



Range: Known only from type locality. 



Diagnosis: A Hynobius withunedium vomerine series; tail keeled 



