488 DUNN. 



in the water. During the summer they go into the mountainside and 

 seek damp places under bushes or fallen trees, and through fall, 

 winter, and spring they burrow and are very seldom seen. Thus it is 

 easy to catch twenty of them in the breeding season while it is hard to 

 get even a few at other times of the year. They are called Oka Imori 

 (Land Lizard) in this part of the country." The breeding season is 

 not definitely stated but is evidently spring. 



Remarks: This animal is close to //. nan-ins but quite distinct. In 

 color it resembles rather H. stejncgcri from Kiusiu. Tago intended to 

 describe it as new, but I have been unable to find that he ever did so. 



It is apparently a mountain form and ranges south and west of 

 H. naevius which is according to Tago restricted to low altitudes in 

 Northern Hondo. The larvae from Miyazu are quite a problem. 

 Tago (1907) records naevius from Kariwano, Lso Province on the west 

 coast. If altitude is the distributional factor involved the Miyazu 

 specimens might well be naevius, and they agree with naevius in pro- 

 portions rather than with kimurai. But they are well advanced and 

 have only four toes, and in the uncertainty I think it better to leave 

 them with the less known form. I think it probable that the record 

 of naevius from Kyoto, (Okada 1891) refers to kimurai. 



Specimens seen: 4, as follows; 

 Hondo: Hida Province, 1 (Cal. Acad. Sci. 2725S); Mt. Hieizan, Omi 

 Province, 1 (M. C. Z. 8546); Miyazu, Tango Province, 2 

 (Cal. Acad. Sci. 16322-16323, larvae). 



Hynobius tagoi Dunn. 



1907. Hynobius nebulosus Stejneger (part), U. S. Xat. Mils. Bull., 58, p. 31. 

 1923. Hynobius tagoi Dunn, Proc. California Acad. Sci., (4). XII. 2, p. 29. 



Type: California Acad. Sci. No. 26563, adult male, collected 

 October, 1910, by Victor Kuhne. 



Type Locality: Tsu-shima, North Island. 



Range: Known only from the type locality. 



Diagnosis: Vomerine series medium; tail somewhat flattened; 

 13 costal grooves; toes 5; sides of tail not black; middorsal line of 

 tail not yellow; grayish brown with fine darker brown stippling. 



Description: Type; 13 costal grooves; one costal fold between 

 appressed toes; head width 5| in length from snout to vent; head 

 length 3| in length of body; head an oval from above; eye as long as 

 its distance from tip of snout; outline of upper jaw concave as seen 

 from side; angle of jaw back of hind angle of eye; lower eyelid fitting 



