56 BARBOUR — ASIATIC AMPHIBIA AND REPTILIA [PVE-Z6- 
and runs along the side, ending in a series of spots. In the female many 
of the warts have black apices, a character frequent in B. melanostictus. 
Types,— no. 2432, Mus. Comp. Zodl., two specimens, male and female, 
Bankoro, central Formosa. Taken by a Japanese collector of Mr. Alan 
Owston. 
This strongly marked species is evidently closely related to Bufo 
melanostictus; it also tends toward Bufo himalayanus. ‘This opin- 
ion is also held by Dr. Stejneger, who has most kindly examined the 
types. 
Bufo formosus Boulenger. 
Boulenger, P. Z. S. Lond., 1883, p. 140, pl. XXIIT. 
Stejneger, Herp. of Japan, 1907, pp. 60-64. 
A single topotype, Yokohama, Japan, from Owston. 
This form is definitely known only from the vicinity of the type 
locality, Yokohama, Hondo, Japan. 
There are two large specimens in the Museum of Comparative 
Zodlogy (M. C. Z., no. 309), which were taken many years ago at 
Kanagawa. 
Bufo bufo asiaticus (Steindachner). 
Steindachner, Novara Exp., Zool., I, Amphib., p. 39. 
Stejneger, Herp. of Japan, 1907, pp. 66-69. 
One specimen, marked ‘North China’ (M. C. Z., no. 1904). 
This specimen differs considerably from Stejneger’s diagram in 
that the tympanum is less than one fourth the diameter of the 
eye. ‘The parotoid gland is considerably shorter, for in the figure 
it equals in length its distance from the tip of the snout, while in 
this specimen its length only equals that to the nostril. This prob- 
ably is only an aberrant individual, and unfortunately the local- 
ity record is provokingly vague. 
Type locality: Shanghai. 
It is known from Eastern Mongolia, Amurland, Korea and 
northeastern China. Stejneger remarks further that south of the 
