HERPETOLOGY OP JAPAN. 



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In Korea it has been found at Gensan, as well as at Chemulpo and 

 Seoul. From Fusan we have thus far no records. 



1 Description, p. 66. 



f' P. 68: figs. 49-.52. 



BUFO BUFO JAPONICUSa (Schlegel). 



1826. ?Bvfo praetextatus Bom, Isis, 182G, p. 215; Bijdr. Natunrk. Wetensch., II, 

 Pt. 1, 1827, p. 271 ("Nangasacki;^' Blomhoff, collector). 



1838. Bufo vulgaris japonicus Schlegel, Fauna Japoii., Rept., pp. 106, 139 (type- 

 locality, Japan; types in Mus. Leiden; Buerger and von Siebold, col- 

 lectors ; part) . — GuENTHER, Oat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., 1858, p. 56 

 (Japan). — Martens, Preuss. Exped. Ost-Asien, Zool., I, 1866, p. 109. 



1858. Bufo vulgaris Bleeker, Natunrk. Tijdschr. Nederland Indie, XVI, p. 205 

 (Japan) (not of Laurenti). — ^Martens, Preuss. Exped. Ost-Asien, Zool., I, 

 1876, p. 384 (Nagasaki).— BouLENGER, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1880, p. 

 569 (part: Japan); Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., 1882, p. 303 (part: Japan); 

 Taill. Batr. Europe, Pt. 2, 1898, pp. 213, 347 (Kobe).— Okada, Cat. 

 Vert. Jap., 1891, p. 66 (Japan).— ?Fritze, Mittli. Deutsch. Gesell. Ost- 

 Asiens, V, 1891, p. 239 (Yezo). 



In structural characters and general proportions this island form 

 is apparently identical with the foregoing and needs no special detailed 

 description. Its status has been discussed above, and it was there 

 pointed out that the only appreciable difference from the continental 

 form is one of coloration, inasmuch as the Japanese form has the 

 underside more or less strongly blotched and coarsely mottled with 

 blackish, with a blackish line along the whole lower jaw, as in Bufo 

 formosus. 



Habitat. — The exact distribution of this form in Japan is highly 

 problematical at the present time. Specimens from Kobe and Naga- 

 saki seem to belong to it, but beyond this statement all is conjecture. 



The occurrence of a toad in Yezo is reported by Doctor Fritze, 

 and Doctor Nozawa writes me that he believes tlie toad is found in 

 the southern jiart of this island, but it is impossible to say to what 

 form it may belong. A comparison of Yezo and Sakhalin specimens 

 would be highly interesting and instructive. 



List of specimens of Bufo japonicus. 



a Signifying Japanese. 



