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than to the former. This, from a zoogeographical standpoint, is rather 

 unexpected, and a comparison of specimens from central Hondo, 

 Yezo, and Sakhahn sliould be highly instructive. 



Habitat. — Described from, and thus far recorded only from, the 

 island of Sakhalin, where it was collected by Doctor Suprunenko in 

 1890. 



BUFO BUFO'J ASIATICUS6 (Steindachner). 



1869. Bufo vulgaris var. asiatica Steindachner, Novara Exped., Zool., I, Amph., 

 p. 39 (Shanghai; Vienna Mus. ; Zc4ebor and Frauenfeld, collectors). 



1880. Bufo vulgaris japonicus Lataste, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, V, 1880, p. 506 

 (Peking, China; de Plancy, collector) (not of Schlegel). 



1880. Bvfo vulgaris Boulbnger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1880, p. 569 (part, 

 Peking); Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), V, Feb., 1890, p. 141 (Khabarovka, 

 Ussuri; Korea); Taill. Batr. Europe, Pt. 2, 1898, pp. 213, 347 (part: 

 Khabarovka; Seoul, Chemulpo, Gensan, Korea; Chefoo, Shanghai, 

 China). — Boettger, Ber. Senckenberg. Naturf. Ges., 1894, p. 145 

 (Shanghai). — Werner, Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. (Muenchen), II Klasse, 

 XXII, Pt. 2, 1904, p. 358 (Tsingtau, Shanghai).— Nikolski, Zap. Imp. 

 Akad. Nauk, S. Peterburg (8), XVII, No. 1, 1905, p. 387 (part: Amur. 

 Ussuri, etc.). 



1892. Bufo vulgaris var. japonica Boettger, Kat. Batr. Mus. Senckenberg., p. 37 

 (part: Shanghai). 



1899. Bufo japonicus Stone, Proc. Phila. Acad., 1899, p. 183 (Tore River, Eastern 

 Mongolia). 



Description (figs. 49-52). — Adult male; U.S.N.M. No. 17516; Gensan, 

 Korea; July, 1886; P. L. Jouy, collector. Head wide, snout rather 

 rounded with well-marked canthal angle, loreal region scarcely concave ; 

 nostrils slightly nearer the eye than the tip of the snout, their distance 

 from each other greater than their distance from the eye, equaling 

 that from the labial edge and the upper eyelid, and somewhat greater 

 than one-half the width of the interorbital space, which is rather con- 

 cave; tympanum very distinct, nearly circular, about one-half the 

 diameter of the eye, its distance from the latter nearly equaling its 

 own diameter, and its distance from the labial border twice its diam- 

 ter; parotoid glands large, their width more than one-half the length; 

 fore legs long; fingers free at base, third longest, second shortest, 

 slightly shorter than first and fourth, which are equal; two very 

 distinct palmar tubercles, the outer more than twice as large as the 

 inner, the latter with nuptial asperities; similar but larger pads on 

 upper and inner side of first and second fingers, and a narrow band on 

 inner side of third; heels not meeting when folded hind legs are placed 

 perpendicular to the axis of the body; toes nearly fully webbed, the 

 web extending as far as the end of the two basal phalanges of the third 

 toe and the first basal phalanx of the fourth, but slightly excised; 

 inner metatarsal tubercle moderate, with prominent cutting edge, 

 considerably shorter than first toe; outer metatarsal tubercle 



o-Rana bufo Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 10 ed., 1758, I, p. 210. b Signifying Asiatic. 



