72 



BULT.ETIN .58, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



A young specimen, 27 mm. long, from Lake Khanka, Ussnri 

 (U.S.N. M. No. 14343) also received from the St. Petersburg Acad- 

 emy, has the interorbital space much narrower, scarcely more than 

 two-thirds the width of the upper eyelid, and the tympanum is much 

 smaller, its diameter scarcely more than one-third the diameter of 

 the eye. The color is very bright and the pattern very distinct; a 

 brown line runs from nostril over canthus rostralis and the extreme 

 outer edge of the uppper eyelid, bordered above by a pale olive line 

 which on the tip of the snout joins a similar one occupying the entire 

 median line of head and body above; a similarly pale line crosses the 

 middle of the eyelids, and another one the occiput from tympanum 

 to tympanum; parotoids pale olive with an irregular brownish figure 

 in the outer posterior portion; all the larger glands on the back pale 

 olive with a brownish outer edge forming ocelli; underside uniform 

 pale with a few dusky spots on the belly. 



The females lack the subgular sac and the nuptial asperities on 

 the fingers. These excrescences persist in the male some time after 

 the end of the breeding season. 



Habitat. — This species which seems to occur from the eastern part 

 of the desert Gobi, Alashan, and Ordos in Mongolia to Peking and 

 Chefu in the south and north to Dauria, the valley of the Amur and 

 the Ussuri country, is regarded by Boulenger as representing the 

 European Bufo calamita in eastern Asia, and as a form intermediate 

 between the latter and Bufo viridis. In the Hambiu'g Museum 

 there is a specimen collected by Dieckmann in 1894 at Khabarovka, 

 Amurland, and another from the same locality is in the Basel Mu- 

 seum. Stone has recorded it from a lake near Lama-mio and various 

 other localities in eastern Mongolia. 



List of specimens of Bufo raddei. 



U.S. 

 N.M. 

 No. 



Sex and age. 



Localitv. 



When col- 

 lected. 



By whom collected or from 

 whom received. 



14343 

 21.'?94 



Young o. 

 Male 6... 



Lake Khanka, Ussuri . 

 Zagan, East Siberia. . , 



Acad. Sci. St. I'l'tersburg. 

 Do. 



a P. 72. b Description, p. 70: figs. 53-.57. 



BUFO MELANOSTICTUSc Schneider. 



1799. Bufo melanostictus Schneider, Hist. Amph., I, p. 216 (India orientalis). — 

 BouLENGEU, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., 1882, p. 306 (South China; East 

 Indies); Fauna Brit. India, Rept., 1890, p. 505, fig. p. 506. — Boettger, 

 Offenl)ach. Ver. Nattirk. 24-25 Ber., 1885, p. 131 (Canton; Prov. Quang- 

 ttmg, China). — Flower, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1896, p. 911, pi. xliv, 

 fig. 3 (tadpole).— Stejneger, Journ. Sci. Coll. Tokyo, XII, Pt. 3, 1898, 

 p. 216 {mcranostictus err. typ.) (Taipa and Giilan, Formosa.) 



« From /<£Aa5, black; driKro^, spotted. 



