HEKPETOLOGY OF JAPAN. 



65 



mm. 



Hind leg from vent to tip of longest toe 154 



Tibia 44 



Hind foot from base of inner metatarsal tubercle to tip of longest toe 54 



Length of parotoid 25 



Width of parotoid 8 



Habitat. — The only definite locality whence we have specimens of 

 this form is Kochi, in the island of Shikoku, where Dr. Hugh M, 

 Smith collected a fine series of specimens in the spring of 1903. 



List of specimens of Biifo smithi. 



a Type. 



BUFO SACHALINENSISa (Nikolski). 



1905. Bifo vultj[a]ns var. sachalinensis Nikolski, Zap. Imp. Akad. Nauk, S. 

 Peterburg (8), XVII, No. 1, p. 389 (type-locality, Sakhalin; types, St. 

 Petersburg Mus., Nos. 1934-1936; Doctor Suprunenko, collector). 



Not having seen any specimens referable to this form, I append a 

 translation of Nikolski's original diagnosis: 



Longitudinal diameter of eye contained one and one-half times in length of snout; 

 width of upper eyelid one and three-fourths to two times in interorbital space; fore- 

 head smooth (not warty); tympanum very distinct, its diameter equaling two-thirds to 

 three-fourths the longitudinal diameter of the eye; internal metatarsal tubercle very 

 large, its length equaling or exceeding the longitudinal diameter of the eye; a black 

 line always marking the outer margin of the parotoids, as in B. japonica Schlegel. 



This diagnosis, based upon six specimens, is too brief and does not 

 allude to the crucial characters of the webbing of the toes and to the 

 distance of the tympanum from the eye. Comparing it, however, wath 

 specimens of the next species from Korea and with B. formosus it 

 almost looks as if the Sakhalin toad may belong to the latter rather 



a From the island of Sakhalin, or Krafto, in the Okhotsk Sea, 

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