ART. 25 CHINESE AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES STEJNEGER 5 



As the female specimen (No. 53366) collected by Mr. Sowerby at 

 T-mien-po, northern Kirin, Manchuria, has already been mentioned 

 by Dunn, as quoted above, I need make no further remarks here. 



Genus BATRACHUPERUS Boulenger 



1878. Batrachupervs Boulenger, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, vol. 3, 1878, p. 71 

 (monotype, Salamandrella sinensis Sauvage). 



1882. Batrachyperus Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Grad. Brit. Mus., p. 37 (emenda- 

 tion). 



1912. Batrachypterus Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 40, no. 4, p. 126 

 (err, typogr.). 



BATRACHUPERUS PINCHONII (David) 



1871. Dermodactylus pinclwnii David, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 



vol. 7, Bull. p. 95 (type-locality, Moupin). 



Dermodactylus pinclwnit David, .Tourn. Trois. Voy. Chinols, vol. 2, 1875, 



p. 216. 

 1877. Salamandrella sinensis Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris (7), vol. 1, 



p. 117 (type-locality, Moupin, Szechwan, China; types in Paris Mus., 



A. David, collector). 



Batrachuperus sinensis Boulenger, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, vol. 3, 1878, 



p. 72.— Dunn, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci., vol. 58, 1923, p. 520 



( Szechwan ) . 

 Batrachyperus sinensis Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Grad. Brit. Mus.. 1882, p. 



37 (Moupin).— Boettger, Offenbach. Ver. Naturk., 24-25 Ber., 1885, p. 166 



(Mupin). — GuENTHER, Ann. Mus. Zool. St. Petersbourg, vol. 1, 1896, p. 



209 (Sung-pan and Kuo-chu-chin, Szechwan).— Werner, Abh. Bayer. 



Akad. Wiss., II Kl., vol. 22, pt. 2, 1903, p. 371.— Dunn, Bull. ]\Ius. Comp. 



Zool., vol. 62, 1918, p. 456 (Liang-hoko Szechwan). 



Batrachypterus sinensis Barbour, Mem. IMus. Comp. Zool., vol. 40, no. 4, 



1912, p. 126, pi. 1, fig. 1, (Lianghokow, W. Szechwan, alt. 12,000 feet). 

 1898. Salamandrella keyserlingii Bedriaga, Wiss. Res. Przewalski Central- 



Asien Reis., Zool., vol. 3, pt. 1, May 15, 1898, p. 3 (part: Rivers Kserntso 



and Lumbu, Szechwan). 



Doctor Dunn has treated so exhaustively of this species and de- 

 scribed our specimens so fully that I need only record here the 

 gratifying fact that Rev. D. C. Graham has sent the National Mu- 

 seum four fine specimens (Nos. 64419-22) which he collected on 

 Mount Omei, Szechwan. The following interesting note accom- 

 panied the specimens : " The salamanders were caught in the White 

 Dragon Pool on summit of Mount Omei, 11,000 feet above sea level, 

 on August 20, 1921. They are called white dragons by the Buddists 

 and the imaginary White Dragon king is worshiped in a small 

 temple near the pool. The Chinese say that if one captures and 

 kills one of these salamanders a storm will follow."' 



Since the above Avas written he has forwarded a young specimen 

 (No. 67835) collected at the Yellow Dragon Gorge, near Sungpan. 



No, 10995 was received from the Paris Museum as one of the types 

 of this species, but the locality Kiangsi is attributed to it. Tliis is 



