ART. 25 CHINESE AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES STEJNEGER 31 



with the peculiarity of the Chinese specimens that the skin is not, 

 involved in the cranial ossification, it may indicate a recognizable 

 form deserving of a separate name for which Hallowell's mega- 

 cephaliis is available. In this connection I may call attention to 

 Vogt's RhacophoTus hraueri ^^ from Formosa, which evidently be- 

 longs to this group. The National Museum possesses a specimen 

 from Kosempo, Formosa, which in every particular fits Vogt's de- 

 scription. This I cannot separate structurally from Sowerby's 

 Fukien specimen, and the reticulation on the hind part of the femur 

 is identical. Vogt has since (1914) recognized R. braueri as belong- 

 ing to R. leucomystaxP 



DIMENSIONS 



mm.. 



Tip of snout to vent 42 



Width of head 15 



Interorbital space 5. 5 



Upper eyelid 3. 5? 



Distance from nostril to eye 4.5 



Diameter of eye 4.5? 



Diameter of tympanum 3 



Width of largest finger disk 1.5? 



Fore leg 26 



Hind leg, vent to tip of longest toe 68 



Tibia 22 



POLYPEDATES DENNYSI ^o (Blanford) 



1881. Bhacophorus dennysi Blanfoed, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1881, p. 

 224, pi. 21, figs. 3-3a (type locality, China; type in Raffles Mus., Singa- 

 pore).— Boettgek, Offenbach. Ver. Naturk., 24-25 Ber., 1885, p. 161 

 (China). 



1882. Bhacophorus dennysii Boulengeb, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., p. 87 

 (China?) ; Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1899, p. 169 (Foochow and Kuatun, 

 Fukien). — Vogt, Sitz. Ber. Ges. Naturf. Freunde, Berlin, 1914, p. 101 

 (Kwantung). — Wolterstorff, Abh. Mus. Magdeburg, vol. 1, 1906, p. 126 

 (Pingsiang, Kiang-si). 



Both Mr. Sowerby and Prof. Claude R. Kellogg have sent us this 

 gigantic and handsome frog from Fukien. Sowerby's series (Nos. 

 65197-215, 65268-70) are from near Yenpingfu, while Kellogg's 

 was taken " within 200 miles of Foochow." 



POLYPEDATES OMEIMONTIS Stejneger 



1924. Polypedates omeimontis Stejneger, Occ. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist.,, 

 vol. 5, July 21, 1924, p. 120 (type-locality, Shin-Kai-Si, Mt. Omei, Szesh- 

 wan; type U.S.N.M. No. 66548; Rev. D. C. Graham, collector). 



Diagnosis. — Fingers half- webbed; head without spines; no cu- 

 taneous folds along legs; no dermal flap at heel; vomerine teeth in 



28 Sitz. Ber. Ges. Naturf. Freunde, Berlin, 1911, p. 180. 



»Idem, 1914, p. 101. 



^0 Named far Dr. N. B. Dennis who discovered the type specimen alive at a Chinese mer- 

 chant's house in Singapore. When it died it was presented to the Ratfles Museum. It- 

 was said to have originally come from China. 



