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Rana esculenta Sowebby, in Clark and Sowerby, Through Sheu-Kan, 1912, 



p. 112 (Shensi).— Gee, Journ. N. China Asiat. Soc, vol. 50, 1919. p. 184 



(Soochow). 

 Rana nigromaculata Annandale, Mem. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 6. 1917, 



(p. 140, pi. 6, fig. 4).— NiKOLSKi, Fauna Rossij, Amph., 1918, p. 34 (Or- 



dos ; Wuchangf u, Hupeh ; Khingan Mts ; etc. ) . 



Of this widely distributed and common frog most of the recent 

 collections contain numerous examples, as shown by the following 

 enumeration. 



Sowerby collected three specimens (Nos. 52360-2) in southern 

 Manchuria at the Yalu Eiver about 180 miles from its mouth ; eight 

 specimens (Nos. 39346-52) in Shensi at Yenanfu, and 20 miles east 

 of Hai-shin-ssu ; seven specimens (Nos. 65225-8, 66352-4) at 

 Shanghai; eighteen (Nos. 65330, 66386-402) at FoochoAV, and three 

 (Nos. 65292-4) near Yenpingfu, Fukien. One (No. 63202) was 

 extracted from the stomach of a snake collected by Dr. Lewis R. 

 Thompson in the southwestern part of Hunan province. Rev. 

 Graham sent eleven from Szechwan, seven (Nos. 65931, 66642, 

 66785-9) from Suifu, the others (Nos. 65924^7) presumably from 

 the same locality. L. I. Moifett collected two specimens (Nos. 

 52585-6) at Kiangyin, Kiangsu. 



RANA PLANCYI Lataste 



Synonymy, see Herp. Japan, 1907, p. 101, to which add : 



Boettger, Offenbach. Ver. Naturk., 24-25 Ber., 1885, p. 160; Kat. Batr. 

 Mus. Senckenberg., 1892, p. 4 (Lushan Mts. near Kiukiang; Shanghai; 

 riankow) ; Ber. Senckenberg. Naturf. Ges., 1894, p. 138 (Hankow) ; p. 140 

 (Lushan Mts.) ; p. 145 (Shanghai) ; p. 147 (Dalanshan, near Ningpo). — 

 Werner, Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., II Kl., vol. 22, pt. 2. 1908, p. 368.— 

 Wolterstorff, Abh. Mus. Magdeburg, vol. 1, 1906, p. 130 (Ping-shiang; 

 Nimrod Sound, Chekiang; Kiukiang). — Gee, Journ. N. China Asiat. Soc. 

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

 Annandale, Mem. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 6, 1917, p. 145 (Tai-hu Lake, 

 Prov. Kiangsu). — Boulenger, Rec. Indian Mus., vol. 20, 1920, p. 85 

 (China and F'ormosa). 



There are now in the National Museum good series of this species 

 both from Formosa and the Chinese mainland. An examination of 

 this material demonstrates that the differences which I indicated ^^ 

 between specimens from Formosa and Shanghai do not hold and are 

 of a purely individual character. Several of the specimens have well- 

 developed glandular tubercles on the back between the dorso-lateral 

 folds, but they do not assume the shape of elongated folds as in 

 R. nigromaculata. The black and white band on the posterior aspect 

 of the thigh is characteristic of R. flancyi. Our series now includes 

 two specimens (Nos. 65331 and 65333) from Foochow, and one 

 (No, 65258) from Futsing also in Fukien, and 12 specimens (Nos. 



« Herp. Japan, 1907, p. 101. 



