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western part of Chinese Turkestan, "Northeast" must have heen a 

 slip for Northwest. This error has been copied many times. 



Nikolski (1905) questions Kulagin's (1888) record for Tashkent. 

 To this Elpateevski and Sabaneef (1907) reply that a specimen with 

 this locality, and said to have been collected by Fedtschenko, is in 

 the Moscow Museum. Nikolski (1918) bases his Ranodon kozhcvni- 

 kovi on this specimen. The characters are minute differences in pro- 

 portion from R. sibiricus. If Ranodon varies as much as Hynobius does 

 the form is certainly not valid. 



Kastschenko (1898, Nauk. Tomsk.) has recorded this form from 

 north of the Altai in the Tomsk Government, but later (1902) stated 

 that he was mistaken and really had Molge vulgaris. In the latter 

 paper he says he heard from Cossacks about some salamanders near 

 the village of Ulyabinsk, and believes these to have been Ranodon. 



Snitnikov (1913), having found the animal living in mountain 

 streams between 1850 and 2000 meters of altitude, doubts whether the 

 type actually came from "the neighborhood of Semipalatinsk" 

 because there is no country of anywhere near such elevation in that 

 vicinity. He suggests that the type really came from Semiryechensk, 

 which was not a separate Government when Kessler wrote, but was a 

 part of the Semipalatinsk Government. He says also that both 

 "Kuldja" and "Kopal" refer not to the towns but to the quite large 

 districts of which they are the centers. 



Besides Kopal, whence came the specimens I have seen, it has been 

 recorded from the following places : 

 Semipalatinsk Gov.: Semipalatinsk (Kessler 1866). 

 Semiryechensk Gov. : River Maloi Almatinki near Vernaye, 6000 feet 



alt. (Severtzov 1873); river Balykty near Kopal 

 (Nikolski 1905) ; river Chimbulaki near Kopal, 

 river Kora near Kopal, headwaters of river 

 Kesken-Terek in Urgan-Tas Mts. at alt. of 

 1850-2000 m. between Kopal and Djarkent 

 (Snitnikov 1913). 

 Syrdarya Gov.: Tashkent (Kulagin 1888). 

 Chinese Turkestan: Kuldja (Strauch 1870). 



Specimens seen: Two, as follows; 

 Semiryechensk Gov.: Kopal (U. S. N. M. 14365, M. C. Z. 1964). 



Genus Batrachuperus Boulenger. 



1878. Batrachuperus Boulenger, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, p. 71 (type Sala- 

 mandrella sinensis Sauvage). 



