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Crotalid^e. 



Ancistrodon contortrix Linn.: Copperhead. Prof. Popenoe writes from 

 Manhattan that the copperhead is neither rare nor common at that point. 

 A small specimen which he sends is rather darker than is the rule with 

 eastern specimens. Douglas county (Mozley). 



Cmidisonatergermina8a,j: Massasauga. Douglas county (Mozley). Near 

 Ft. Riley (Nolan). 



Caudisona Edwardsii B. & G. Topeka, one specimen (Popenoe). 



Crotalus confluentus Say: Missouri Rattlesnake. Two Rooks county speci- 

 mens are in the collection at the State House. Ft. Hays (Garman). Osborne 

 City (Mozley). Ft. Riley (Nolan). Wallace county (Snow). 



Crotalus horridus Linn. : Banded Rattlesnake. Douglas county (Snow). 

 One specimen from Kansas in National Museum (Brown). 



ANURA. 

 Ranid.e. 



Rana catesbiana Shaw: Bull Frog. Prof. Popenoe writes: "Topeka and 

 Manhattan ; rather common ; inhabits only deeper streams." 



Rana halecina K.a\m.: Leopard Frog. Of this species Prof. Popenoe writes 

 aigain : "Abundautt found on the margins of all water," 



Hylid.e. 



Hyla versicolor LeConte: Northern Tree Frog. In Cambridge Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology, from Kansas (Garman). 



Chorophilus triseriatus Wied. : Striped Bush Frog. One of the most abun- 

 dant batrachiaus of Kansas. Prof. Popenoe writes : " I have never captured 

 them on trees, but frequently in roadside puddles." Mr. Garman tells me 

 that they often crawl upon bushes two or three feet above the water. They 

 vary greatly both in color and in the pattern of their markings. The ovaries 

 of a specimen sent me by Prof. Popenoe contained about four hundred and 

 twenty eggs, and the stomach was distended with a large grub, the head, 

 thorax, and elytra of a species of Aphodius, a small spider and a quantity of 

 apparently silicious matter. 



Acris gryllus Le Conte., var. crepitans Bd. : Cricket Frog. One hundred 

 and fifty miles west of Ft. Riley (Brown). Ft. Riley (Nolan). 



Engystomid^. 



Engy stoma carolinense Holb. Kansas (Hallow.). 



BUFONID^. 



Rufo lentiginosus Shaw., var. fowlerii Putnam; Fowler's Toad. Man- 

 hattan and E. (Popenoe). 



Bufo lentiginosus Shaw., var. americanus Le Conte: Common Toad. 

 Common at Manhattan and westward (Popenoe). Should be found also 

 eastward. 



Bufo lentiginosus Shaw., var. cognatus Say. Two Kansas specimens, one 



