AMPHIBIA AND EEPTILIA. 



BY THOMAS BARBOUR. 



The collection embraces twenty-three species. For the most part they are 

 long known and wide-ranging forms. Three species, Hyla monticola, Ambly- 

 cephalus chinensis, and Agkistrodon tibelanus, are described as new. 



The geographical ranges of several species have been extended by the 

 material in hand; and one species, Batrachypterus sinensis Boulenger, is inter- 

 esting because of its rarity. 



So few collections have been made in the higher regions of the Szechwan- 

 Tibetan mountain area that even so small a series is of peculiar interest in that 

 it affords another addition to our knowledge of a region which has doubtless 

 been the centre of dispersal for very many different forms. 



AMPHIBIA. 



CRYPTOBRANCHIDAE. 



MEGALOBATRACHUS JAPONICUS (Temminck). 



TEMMINCK, Fauna Japon., 1837, pt. 3, Coup d'oeil, p. xxvi (fide Stejneger). 

 STEJNEGBB, Bull. 58, U. S. N. M., 1907, p. 6-11. 



Stejneger says that he has no means of verifying the fact that Boulenger 

 regards Sieboldia davidiana Blanchard from China as identical with Japanese 

 specimens. That Boulenger, as was expected, as well as Krefft and Gray were 

 correct in this stand is proven by material now in hand. Mr. Zappey took a 

 fine example about two feet long at Yachow, and a young one at Hungyahsien 

 both towns in western Szechwan. They are not distinguishable from Japanese 

 specimens. 



Stejneger (loc. cit., p. 7) notes the three records of Blanchard, Krefft, and 

 Gray from China. Other specimens are, one taken by Mr. A. E. Pratt at 

 Kiatingfu, Szechwan, which Gtinther called Megalobatrachus maximus, a syno- 

 nym of japonicus. Walterstorff (Abh. Mus. f. natur. u. heimkunde Magde- 

 burg, 1906, 1, 2, p. 123) records two young examples obtained from native 

 sources somewhere in the country back of Canton, collection of Dr. Martin 



