HYNOBIIDAE. 507 



1820. Molge striata Merrem, Tent. Syst. Amph., p. 185 (based on Houttuyn 



and Thunberg). 

 1838. Salamandra unguiculata Schlegel, Fauna Japon., Rept., p. 123, 129, 



pi. 5, ff. 1-6 (Hondo and Shikoku); Geerts, 1883, Nouv, Arch. 



Mus. Paris, (2), 5, p. 275; Goppert, 1896, Morph. Jahrb. 25, p. 16, 



ff. 15-16 (claws). 

 1838. Onychodactylus schlegeli Tschudi, Mem. Soc. Sci. Neuchatel, p. 92 



based on Schlegel 1838); Dumeril and Bibron 1854, Erpet. Gen., 



9, p. 114, Atlas, pi. 93, f. 1. 

 1841. Onycopus sieboldii Dumeril and Bibron, Erpet. Gen., 8, p. 4 (lapsus). 

 1879. Onychodactylus sp. Parker, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, (2), 2, part 3, 



No. 5, p. 188, pi. 19, ff. 1-3 (skull and hyobranchial apparatus). 



Type: Not known to exist. Collected by Thunberg. 



Type Locality: Not definitely stated but evidently the "Fakone- 

 berget" (mountains of Hakone, Izu Prow), where Thunberg col- 

 lected the types of his Lacerta japonica. 



Range: Mountains of Hondo and of Shikoku. 



Diagnosis: An Onychodactylus with 13-14 costal grooves, generally 

 no gap betw T een vomerine series, a very marked light dorsal band. 



Description: Cal. Acad. Sci. No. 26711, adult male, Sawatari, 

 Prov. Kotsuke, Hondo, Sept., 1910; 14 costal grooves; appressed toes 

 meeting; head width 6 in length from snout to vent; head length 

 3| 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; both eyelids fitting under a fold of skin 

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

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

 of length; toes 4, 3, 5, 2, 1 in order of length; a tubercle under base 

 of first finger and toe; a fold of skin along outer edge of fifth toe and 

 lower leg; tail longer than head and body, cylindrical at base, flat- 

 tened towards tip ; vent a longitudinal slit with a pair of shorter slits 

 meeting it so as to form an arrowhead appearance, point forwards; 

 Vomerine teeth, 15 in series, beginning behind inner edge of nares, 

 curving forward and in to level of anterior edge of nares, thence back 

 and in to meet its fellow, not so far back in middle as on sides; yellow- 

 ish brown, a dorsolateral black stripe on body and tail, much black 

 spotting on dorsal surface; sides below the stripe cream color clouded 

 with darker, nearly uniform cream color below; total length 151 mm., 

 head 15, body 56, tail 80. 



Variation: An adult female, Cal. Acad. Sci. No. 16021, Yokohama, 

 Hondo, collected by J. C. Thompson; 13 costal grooves; stout claws 

 on fingers and toes; tail longer than body; vent a longitudinal slit; 



