486 DUNN. 



statement that naevius occurs only northward in Hondo, then the 

 Kyoto and Miyazu animals may well be kimurai, and I have given 

 them the benefit of the doubt. 



Besides Schlegel's original reference, Xamie (1903) records it from 

 Shikoku. (Schlegel's type locality for this form is very vaguely 

 given. He says of naevius merely that it lives in the same places as 

 unguiculata (0. japonicus), for which he gives the following: "In 

 abundance in mountainous parts of Nippon and Sikok, especially 

 Sagami, Sinano, Tanba, Tazima, and Tosa." This may or may not 

 be wholly applicable to naevius). 



Specimens seen: one, cotype. "Japan." 



Hynobius kimurai Dunn. 



1891. tHynobius naevius Okada, Cat. Vert. Japan, p. 65; Aln', 1921, Tokyo 



Zool. Mag., 34, p. 329. 

 1907. Salamandrella n. sp. Tago, Tokyo Zool. Mag., 19, p. 237: Maki, 1921, 



Tokyo Zool. Mag. 34, p. 630. 

 1923. Hyncbius kimurae Dunn, Proc. California Acad. Sci., (4), XII, 2, p. 27 



(typ. err.). 



Type: Mus. Comp. Zool. No. 8546, adult female. Collected by 

 Dr. Kimura and Dr. H. H. Wilder, 1820. 



Type Locality: Mt. Hieizan, Omi Province, Hondo. 



Range: West Central Hondo. 



Diagnosis: A Hynobius with short, thick tail; very long vomerine 

 series; 13-15 costal grooves; usually 4 toes; brown, with light flecks 

 over dorsal surface. 



Description: Mus. Comp. Zool. No. 8546, adult female, Mt. 

 Hieizan, Hondo; 15 costal grooves; 4 costal folds between appressed 

 toes; head width 6 in length from snout to vent; head length 3f in 

 length of body; head oval; eye as long as its distance from tip of 

 snout; outline of upper jaw straight as seen from side; angle of jaw 

 back of hind angle of eye; lower eyelid fitting under upper in front 

 and behind; a groove from eye to gular fold; a groove from this down 

 behind angle of jaw; limbs well developed; fingers short, 2, 3, 1, 4 in 

 order of length: toes 3, 4, 2, 1 in order of length; a tubercle under 

 base of first toe and finger; tail shorter than body, thick throughout, 

 ending bluntly, slightly flattened in last half; vent a simple slit; 

 vomerine series beginning behind inner border of nares, a forward 

 incurving branch of 5 teeth, a branch of 17 teeth running straight 

 backwards, not meeting its fellow, separated all along by width of 



