CHINESE AMPHIBIANS AND KEPTILES IN THE UNITED 

 STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



By Leonhard Stejneger 

 Head Curator of Biology, United States National Museum 



The United States National Museum has of late years received a 

 lar^e number of amphibians and reptiles from China, and as there 

 are indications of an increasing interest in these vertebrates among 

 students and collectors in that country, it has been thought best to 

 give as full an account as practicable of the material available, in 

 order to acquaint them not only with what the National Museum 

 possesses, but inferentially with what is still needed before a com- 

 plete herpetology of Qhina proper can be attempted. In my 

 Herpetology of Japan and Adjacent Territory^ I included not only 

 the Russian Coast Province of Siberia, but also Korea, eastern 

 Manchuria, and adjoining parts of northeastern China proper. 

 Each genus and species, the Chinese ones included, were treated in 

 detail, with full synonymy and bibliographic references, etc. In a 

 subsequent paper, The Batrachians and Keptiles of Formosa,- genera 

 and species added to the fauna since 1907 were similarly elaborated 

 in full. It has been considered unnecessary to repeat these synony- 

 mies and references in the present paper, hence only genera and 

 species not found in the two earlier works are here treated in the 

 same manner. However, reference has been given under each 

 species to the page in the Herpetology of Japan and the paper re- 

 lating to Formosa, where the species with synonymy, description, 

 and frequently also illustration may be found. In addition, refer- 

 ences omitted in the earlier work are given in so far as they relate 

 to China proper, but no attempt has been made to include those re- 

 ferring to Hainan and Formosa. 



The paper by R. Mell, Beitraege zur Fauna sinica (Arch. Naturg., 

 vol. 88, sect. A, 1922) was received too late to be incorporated in the 

 synonymies. 



iBull. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 58, 1907. 



"Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 38, May 3, 1910, pp. 91-114. 



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