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November 19, 1872, in a small spring at an altitude of more than 

 1,000 meters near Inkiapo in the valley of Laoyu, Tsingling Moun- 

 tains. The two specimens (Nos. 39315-6) collected by Sowerby on 

 February 26, 1909, in a mountain stream 15 miles south of Sianfu. 

 at an altitude of 1,500 feet are therefore practically topotypes of 

 Pere David's species. It is interesting to compare Mr. Sowerby's 

 color description of some of his frogs as being " yellowish-pink be- 

 neath, shading into red on the under surfaces of the legs '' with 

 David's " d'un beau jaune au ventre, avec le dessous des bras 

 rouges." 



RANA JAPONICA (Guenther) 



Herpetology of Japan, 1907, p. 107, pi. 11, fig. 1. Add to synonymy : 



1870. — Rana silvatica Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1870, p. 412 

 (Ichang, Hupeh) (not R. sylvatica LeConte). 



Rana japonica Stejnegeb, Proc. Washington Biol. Soc, vol. 37, Feb. 21,. 

 1924 p. 70 (Japan). 



While writing the Herpetology of Japan, I had serious doubts 

 about R. japonica being found outside of Japan, not having seen any 

 Chinese specimens myself. However, I have now before me two> 

 specimens (U. S. Nat. Mus. Nos. 66459-60) collected by Sowerby at 

 Hangchow, Chekiang, and one from Shin-Kai-Si, Mount Omei. 

 Szechwan, collected by Mr. Graham (No. 66547), which I aui unable 

 to separate from Japanese specimens. It is, therefore, likely that the 

 records of B. japonica from Ningpo, Chin-hai, Nanking, Shanghai, 

 Nimrod Sound, Kiukiang, and Ping-shiang correctly refer to this 

 species. On the other hand, I can not accept the view that the Peking 

 and other northern Chinese specimens referred to it l)elong here. 

 They are probably either B. chenMnensis {amureims) or R. asiatica, 



RANA LONGICRUS Stejneger 



1898. Rana lomjicrus Ste.tneger, Journ. Sci. Coll. Tokyo, vol. 12, pt. 3, 1898, 

 p. 216 (type locality, Taipa, Formosa; type, Sci. Coll. Mus. Tokyo, No. 

 26; T. Tada, collector) ; Herpet. Japan, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 58. 

 1907, p. 104; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 38, 1910, p. 95 (Formosa) : Proc. 

 Washington Biol. Soc, vol. 37, Feb. 21, 1924, p. 77 (Formosa). — Werner. 

 Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., II KI., vol. 22, pt. 2, 1903, p. 369 (Formosa).— 

 Boulenger, Rec Indian Mus., vol. 20, 1920, p. 95 (Ching Fung Lin, Fu- 

 kien ) . 



Boulenger's record of this species as occurring in Fukien is cor- 

 roborated by a specimen collected by Mr. Sowerby at Foochow (No. 

 65327). Thus one more species is added to the list of batrachians 

 which Formosa has in common with the mainland opposite. 



From the list of measurements of this specimen given below the 

 interorbital space as compared with that of the type appears to be 

 much narrower relatively to the eyelid, and the latter wider, a dis- 



