10. BANIDENS. 11. BATEACHYPEKU8. 37 



Fore limb 27 raillim. 



Hind limb 29 „ 



Tail 95 „ 



Eastern Siberia ; North-eastern China. 



a, b. (S & hgr. Kopal. St. Petersburg Museum [P.]. 



11. BATRACHYPERUS. 



Batrachuperus, Bouleng. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1878, p. 71. 



Tongue rather large, subcircular, the lateral borders free. Pala- 

 tine teeth in two short transverse arched series between the choanae, 

 separated from each other by a wide interspace. Toes four. Tail 

 compressed. 



China. 



1. Batrachyperus sinensis. (Plate III. fig. 1.) 



Salamandrella sinensis, Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) i. p. 117. 

 Batrachuperus sinensis, Bouleng. I. c. p. 72. 



Head depressed, longer than broad ; snout very short, rounded ; 

 eyes rather large, prominent ; labial lobes much developed. Body 

 cylindrical, about thrice and a half the length of the head. Limbs 

 moderate; fingers and toes rather short, depressed, free ; the limbs 

 being adpressed along the body, the median fingers and toes meet. 

 Tail a little shorter than head and body, strongly compressed, ex- 

 cept at the base, crestless, keeled, ending in an obtuse point. Yent 

 much as in Onychodactylus, viz. a simple longitudinal slit in the 

 female, two perpendicular slits in the male, the horizontal one anterior 

 and arched ; the borders not swollen. Skin smooth ; sides with ten 

 to twelve very distinct vertical grooves ; parotoids present, large, flat, 

 behind the angle of the jaws ; a rectilinear groove from the eye to the 

 gular fold ; latter very strongly marked, extending on the sides of 

 the neck ; throat with longitudinal plaits. Greyish brown above, 

 more or less variegated with blackish ; lower surfaces lighter, mottled 

 with brown. 



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Total length 147 135 millim. 



From snout to cloaca .... 75 70 



Head 17 16 



Width of head 14i- 13 



Fore limb 19 19 



Hind limb 26 24 



Tail 72 65 



Moupin, China. 



a-b. <S $ . Moupin. Paris Museum [E.]. 



