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specimens being nearly nniforin above, others densely blotched with 

 blackish. 



Habitat. — The typical R. temporaria occurs in the more northern 

 portions of the Palearctic region, from the British Islands and Scan- 

 dinavia in the west, to Japan in the east. 



In the St. Petersburg Museum there are numerous specimens from 

 the Amur and Ussuri valleys. The Berlin Museum has a specimen 

 from Kasakevitcha near the junction of the Ussuri and Amur rivers, 

 and British Museum has another from Abrek Bay not far from Vladi- 

 vostok, the type of li. dyhowsMi. In the Hamburg Museum there 

 are specimens from Khabarovka, Poprovka and Nikolayesk, Amurland, 

 collected in 1894 b}^ Dieckmann. Nikolski reports that this frog is 

 not common in Sakhalin, where he found it in the river Duiki and 

 Dobrotvorski in the southern part of the island. 



The occurrence of this species in Yezo, therefore, is only what 

 might be expected. British Museum has five specimens from this 

 island, collected by Dr. John Anderson, and our museum has also three 

 Hokkaido specimens collected by Dr. S. Nozawa near Sapporo. In 

 the St. Petersburg Museum there is a specimen from Nemuro, collected 

 by Grigoriew. 



For the possible occurence of R. japonica in Yezo see under the 

 latter species. Here I may emphasize only the fact that the speci- 

 mens there alluded to certainly belong to this species and not to 

 R. temporaria, and the only question is whether the locality is correctly 

 given or not. 



List of specimens of Rana temporaria. 



oDescription and figs., p. 114. 

 RANA TSUSHIMENSIS," new species. 



Diagnosis. — Rana temporaria group; vomerine teeth behind levt i 

 of choancP; snout short, the distance from orbit to tip of snout not 

 greater than width between black stripes at anterior border of orbit; 

 tibio-tarsal articulation reaching beyond eye or tip of snout; distance 

 between dorso-lateral glandular folds contained five or six times in 



« Signifying from Tsushima, in the Straits of Korea, between the south end of Korea 

 and Kiusiu, Japan. 



