520 DUNN. 



1882. Batrachyperus Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Grad. Brit. Mus., (2), p. 37 (sub- 

 stitute for Batrachuperus Boulenger). 



Range: Same as that of the type species. 



Diagnosis : Hynobiidae with horny covering to palms and soles and 

 over tips of digits; lungs present; premaxillary fontanelle small; 

 gills of larvae without filament bearers; vomerine teeth in two short, 

 widely separated series ; tail flat; one species. 



Batrachuperus sinensis (Sauvage). 



1876. Desmodactylus Pinchoni David, Journ. Roy. Asiat. Soc, X. China 



Branch, 7, p. 226 (Moupin), (nomen nudum). 



1877. Salamandrella si?iensis Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom., (7), 1, p. 115. 



1878. Batrachuperus sinensis Boulenger, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, p. 71. 

 1882. Batrachyperus sinensis Boulenger, Cat. Bat. Grad. Brit. Mus., (2), p. 



37, pi. 3, f. 1; Guenther, 1896, Ann. Mus. Zool. St. Petersbourg, 1, 

 p. 209; Barbour 1912, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 40, p. 126, pi. 1, 

 f. 1. 

 1898. Salamandrella keyserlingii Bedriaga, (part), Wiss. Result. Przewalski 

 Zentralasiat., Zool. 3, pt. 1, p. 3. 



Type: In Paris Museum. A cotype is U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 10995, 

 adult female. 



Type locality: Moupin, Sze-chuan, China. 



Range: Known only from Sze-chuan and from the Thibetan 

 province of Kham. 



Diagnosis: A salamander with toes 4—4; vomerine teeth in two 

 short widely separated series between nares; flat tail; labial folds 

 much developed; horny covering to palms and soles and over tips of 

 digits. 



Description: U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 64420, adult female, Mt. Omei, 

 Sze-chuan, China; 13 costal grooves; one costal fold between ap- 

 pressed toes; head width 4f in length from snout to vent; head length 

 2f in length of body; head oval from above; eye as long as its dis- 

 tance from tip of snout; outline of upper jaw very convex as seen from 

 side, owing to prominent labial fold (present also on lower jaw as in 

 larvae); angle of jaw under hind angle of eye; both eyelids fitting 

 under a fold of skin behind; a deep crescentic groove back of eye; a 

 groove from eye to gular fold; a groove from lower lid to angle of 

 jaw; gular fold extends on sides of neck to dorsal surface; limbs well 

 developed; fingers 2, 3, 4, 1 in order of length; toes 3, 2, 4, 1 in order of 



