ART. 25 CHINESE AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES STEJNEGER 17 



Remarks. — This novelty is somewhat intermediate between Kaloula 

 pulchra^ from Hongkong and southern China and Kaloula verru- 

 cosa, described by Boulenger ^*^ from Yunnanf u." The web between 

 the toes is intermediate in extent, being larger than in K. pulchra^^ 

 but shorter than in K. verrucosa, as represented by two specimens in 

 our Museum from the type locality, which were obtained from the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology, though closely approaching that 

 of No. 66520.* In dilation of the fingers it agrees with K pulchra, but 

 in the rugosity of its upper surface it even surpasses K. vei'Tucosa. 

 It differs from the latter, and judging from the descriptions, also 

 from the former, in the longer snout and better developed canthus 

 rostralis. It agrees again with K. pulchra in the wider interorbital 

 space. It differs from both decidedly in the pattern of coloration 

 which is peculiar and characteristic. 



Another Kaloula has been described ten years ago as K. tornieri,'^^ 

 from Korea, the most easterly extension of the genus known. It 

 differs by having no well-defined disks on the fingers, by a small, 

 rounded outer metatarsal tubercle, etc., and does not seem to be nearly 

 related to the above. 



That the new species belongs to the genus Kaloula I have no doubt, 

 in spite of the fact that the sternal apparatus resembles very closely 

 the figure given by Boulenger ^* of that of Cacopus systonia. The 

 inner nares and the palatal ridges agree so well, however, with our 

 specimens of K. veiTucosa, that a separation from the genus Kaloula 

 is excluded. The terminal phalanx of the digits is shaped much like 

 that of K. verrucosa. 



Family RANIDAE 



RANA NIGROMACULATA Hallowell 



Synonymy, Herp. Japan, 1907, p. 94, to which add : 



Rana, esculenta subsp. cJiinensis "Wolterstorff, Abh. Mus. Magdeburg, vol. 



1, 1906, pp. 130, 135 (Foochow; Pingsiang, and Kiukiang, Kiangsi ; Nim- 



rod Sound, Chekiang; Shanghai; Nanking, Peking, Tsing-tao, Shantung r 



Masampo and Chemulpo, Korea). 

 Rana esculenta var. chinensis Boulenger, Rec. Indian Mus., vol. 20, 1920, 



p. 88 ( Shanghai ; Chusan ; Ningpo ; Mts. n. of Kiukiang) . 

 Rana chinensis Bolkay, Allatt. Kozl. Budapest, vol. 8, 1909 (p. 53, pi. 8) ; 



Proc. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 13, 1911, p. 67, pi. 6 (critical). 



^0 Ann. Mag. Nat. His., sor. 7, vol. 13, February, 1904, p. LSI. 



"This species has al.so he^-n reported from Tsinjrtau. Shantuns; (Calhnn verrucosa 

 Wolterstorff, Abh. Mus. Madseburfr, vol. 1, 1906, p. 14.5). Whether identical with th^ 

 Yunnan form, or distinct, remains to be seen. Doctor AVolterstorff indicates variou.s dif- 

 ferences. 



*-As figured by Boulenger. Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus., 1882, p. 170. 



" CaUula tornieri Voot. Sitz. Ber. Berlin Akad. Wiss., 1913, p. 219. 



"Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mns., 1SS2, p. 174. 



