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1906, p. 130 ( Kowloon, near Hongkong ; Foochow ; Pingsiang, Kiangsi ; 

 Nimrod Sound, Chekiang ; Kiukiang ; Nanking ; Tsingtao, Shantung) . — 

 BoxjLENGER, Vert. Malay Penins., Rept. Batr., 1912, p. 236 (India, China, 

 Japan, Malay Pen. and Archip. ) ; Rec. Indian Mus., vol. 20, 1920, 

 p. 28 (eastern Asia). — ANNANnAi.E, Mem. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 6, 

 1917, p. 132 (China, Borneo, Java). — Gee, Journ. N. China Asiat. Soc., 

 vol. 50, 1919, p. 184 (Soochow). 

 Rana gracilis Steindachni3i, Reise Novara, Zool., vol. 1. Amph., 1862, p. 

 18 (Shanghai, Hongkong). — Guenther, Ann. Mus. Zool. St. Peters- 

 bourg, vol. 1, 1890, p. 206 (Yachow, Szechwan). • 



In his Monograph, 1920 (pp. 28 and 29), Boulenger has pointed 

 out two errors in my treatment of this species in the Herpetology of 

 Japan, to which I plead guilty. The first is in regard to its rela- 

 tionship to R. tigeriiia, which I had questioned. The second relates 

 to a slip — to me utterly unexplainable — in the description of the 

 female from Japan, about which I said (p. 128) that the tibio- 

 tarsal articulations " only touch without overlapping." I have re- 

 examined the specimen (U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 31798) and find that 

 the heels " overlap considerably." This is also correctly stated in 

 the " Key," as pointed out by Boulenger. Holders of the " Herpe- 

 tology " are requested to make the correction in their copy. 



The National Museum has now splendid "series of this species, 

 both from Java, the type-locality, and from China and Japan. It 

 shows a surprising individual variability, and I have been unable 

 to find any tangible differences which would justify splitting up our 

 material into geographical groups. L. I. MofFett has sent us speci- 

 mens (Nos. 52573-5, 52583, 52587) from Kiangyin, Kiangsu: Prof. 

 C. Ping (No. 66847) from Nanking; E. Deschamps (Nos. 31724-56) 

 and Sowerby from Shanghai (Nos. 65229-35, 65247, 66355-76). The 

 latter also collected it at Hangchow, Chekiang (No. 66464) and 

 foimd it numerous in Fukien, at Foochow (Nos. 65310-26, 66429), 

 at Futsing (Nos. 65259-65), near Yenping (Nos. 65271-88). and 

 even in the upper Min Basin (Nos. 64880-3). Graham collected a 

 fine lot at Suifu (Nos. 65813-4, 65923, 65928-30, 65938-40). and also 

 three specimens from Mount Omei (Nos. 64424 and 65812, Shin-Kai- 

 Si, altitude 4,400 feet) and a large female (No. 65468), total length 

 48 mm., thus corroborating Potanin's find of this frog at Yachow in 

 1894. 



RANA RUGULOSA Wiegmann 



18.35. Rana ru(/ulosa Wiegmann. Nova Acta Acad. Leop. Carol., vol. 17. 

 pt. 1, p. 258, pi. 21, fig. 2 (type locality, Cape Syng-more, China ; type. 

 No. 3721, Berlin Mus.; Meyen, collector). — Fitzinger, Sitz. Ber. Akad. 

 Wiss. Wien, Math. Nat. Kl., vol. 42, 1861, p. 414 (Shanghai, Hong- 

 kong). — Peters, Mon. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1863, p. 78 (type). — 

 Annandale, Mem. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 6, 1917, p. 126 (Burma, Siam, 

 South China, Formosa) ; Rec. Indian Mus., vol. 15, April, 1918. p. 60 

 (Burma, Siam, China). 



