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to its somewhat dried-up condition. The web between the toes is 

 very deeply excised, however, more so than in any Japanese speci- 

 men examined by me. 



Habitat. — Rana japonica, besides inhabitinj^ Japan, is said to occur 

 also in eastern China. Specimens are on record from Szechuen, 

 Ningpo, the neio;hborhood of Pekino;, Kiukiang, and Shanghai, and I 

 have already referred to the specimen from Chenudpo, Korea, in the 

 Philadelphia Academy. 



The specimens in the Leiden Museum collected by von Siebold and 

 Buero;er (No. 1930) are only labeled as from ''Japan." In Museum 

 Senckenbergianum there are specimens from Nikko and Yokohama, 

 in Berlin from Tokyo, in Hamburg from Yamato and Kawachi. In 

 the ITnited States National Museum there are numerous specimens 

 from Yamagawa, Province of Satsuma, Kiusiu; from Shikoku, Yoko- 

 hama, and from Mount Fuji. Okada has recorded it from the island 

 of Awaji and from the Province of Suwo, Hondo. 



The Senckenberg^ Museum, in Frankfurt on the Main, in 1889 

 received from the late Mr. B. Schmacker, of vShanghai, several speci- 

 mens said to have come from Yezo. One of these is now in British 

 Museum (No. 91. 8. 26. 16), where I have had the opportunity of 

 examining it. It is identical with Yokohama specimens and, if the 

 locality is correct, then both R. japonica and R. tempofaria occur in 

 Yezo. It would be very important to have this question thoroughly 

 investigated. The species has not been found there by others and, 

 as it is not claimed that Mr. Schmacker collected the specimens in 

 Yezo personally, confirmation is necessary.'* 



Doctor Boettger has referred two half-grown specimens which were 

 collected by Mr. Schmacker's Japanese collector, either in "Ohoshima 

 or Okinawa," to this species, the only record for the Riu Kins. One 

 might be tempted to regard these as possibly young Rana holsti were 

 it not for certain discrepancies in the description, Boettger's speci- 

 mens having a distinct outer metatarsal tubercle and the tibio-tarsal 

 articulation extending far beyond the tip of the snout. Under these 

 circumstances they are not likely to be from Okinawa or Ohoshima 



List of specimens of Rana japonica. 



Museum. 



U.S.N.M. 

 Do... 

 Do... 

 Do... 

 Do... 



No. 



1133G 

 n341 

 n342 

 11343 

 11344 



Sex and 



Locality. 



Halfgr.. Japan. 



do do. 



Young.. do. 



do... do. 



do. . .' do. 



When col- 

 lected. 



1878 

 1878 

 1878 

 1878 

 1878 



By whom collected 

 or from whom re- 

 ceived. 



E. S. Morse. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 



c It is to be noted that several other species from the same source are under similar 

 suspicion, as, for instance, Eumeces latiscutatus (p. 199) and Natrix tigrina (p. 139). 



